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From: David Zincavage <>
Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] linguistic nationalism
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:42:37 -0700
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The Germans speak of Deutschland, but do not get upset when we call it
Germany. English speakers refer to Venezia as Venice, Muenchen as Munich,
Koeln as Cologne, Warszawa as Warsaw, Hellas as Greece. The Lithuanians are
the only people who think it is important that people speaking foreign
languages conform to their own usage. English speaking people are more
familiar with Vytautas as Witold, because the name usually appeared spelled
in a Polish form historucally.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Egijus Sinkus" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] EU is providing Lithuanian ethnocide


> > The Lithuanian nationalist goofballs insist that everybody else outside
> > Lithuania add all those Lithuanian suffixes. It has to be "Vilnius,"
not
> > Vilno. It has to be "Vytautas," not Vitold or Vytaut. And to top it
off,
> Hello, David,
> Placename VILNIUS have come from Lithuanian word VILNIS, which means
THE WAVE, name VYTAUTAS have come from Lithuanian words VYTI, which means TO
PROTECT, and TAUTA, which means THE NATION. So, Your VILNO, VITOLD and
VYTAUT is Slavish misspellings.
>
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