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::::::I think we need to minimize confusion among people who do further historical reading, or who will write history papers. They should be using the historical terms in common English usage at the historical time. The point is that key words became part of the English language, and that doing historical research using, say, google or books.google should be facilitated not impaired. This is by no means a Chinese issue--it's all over European history as well. English writers use "Florence, Italy," not "Firenze Italia".  English-speakers use "Tchaikovsky"; other European languages use Tschaikowski, Tschaikowsky, Chajkovskij and Chaikovsky. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 07:50, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

::::::I think we need to minimize confusion among people who do further historical reading, or who will write history papers. They should be using the historical terms in common English usage at the historical time. The point is that key words became part of the English language, and that doing historical research using, say, google or books.google should be facilitated not impaired. This is by no means a Chinese issue--it's all over European history as well. English writers use "Florence, Italy," not "Firenze Italia".  English-speakers use "Tchaikovsky"; other European languages use Tschaikowski, Tschaikowsky, Chajkovskij and Chaikovsky. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 07:50, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

:::::::''They should be using the historical terms in common English usage at the historical time'' Oh, come now. So if I were writing about Sri Lanka/Ceylon in the sixteenth century I should be referring to it as ''Serendip'' or whatever? And who now refers at all to Formosa? [[User:Bugler|Bugler]] 08:41, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

:::::::''They should be using the historical terms in common English usage at the historical time'' Oh, come now. So if I were writing about Sri Lanka/Ceylon in the sixteenth century I should be referring to it as ''Serendip'' or whatever? And who now refers at all to Formosa? [[User:Bugler|Bugler]] 08:41, 25 September 2008 (EDT)