(Miriling) wrote in message ...
On 24 September 2003 (Larry Tapper) wrote in
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'Magyar' is *a* correct word for the language, but the editors of the
Mobile paper made the right choice: it would have been pretentious
(and also obscure to many readers) to use 'Magyar' instead of 'Hungarian'.

Tapper is correct. It is standard practice for newspapers to use the more
common, i.e. less obscure, word in identifying languages....

And that may be true from Aotearoa (New Zealand) to Zhongguo (China). :-)

'We have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Names are everything.'
--Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

--Nick