SV: RE: Monkey Business (WDC 297)

[Persson Stefan]

>From: "Sigvald Gr&#58899;fjeld jr." <sigvald at duckburg.dk>
>Reply-To: "Sigvald Gr&#58899;fjeld jr." <sigvald at duckburg.dk>
>To: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
>Subject: SV: RE: Monkey Business (WDC 297)
>Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:45:46 +0200

>No! Mao should AFAIK be written with an O in the end. So the currently 
used
>transcription should be MaO Zedong.

Correct.

>The same way the name of the Chinese
>capital "Peking" has been changed to "Beijing".

Wrong: the name of the city currently being the Chinese capital has always 
been 北京: the spelling has not changed.  And the change in transcription 
system (Peking -> Beijing) doesn't have anything to do with the Mao/Mau 
case: 毛 is transcribed as "Mao" using both systems.

Stefan

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