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 02/09/2006 08:02:48 AM · #1
just an informal poll. i'm curious as to how this city is referred to by other media. our local daily is using Turin, but the tv networks are using Torino. what about where you are?
 02/09/2006 08:07:55 AM · #2
Torino here.
 02/09/2006 08:21:09 AM · #3
Local media haven't said yet - we've been abit busy with teh Steeler thing ;)

I heard torino and thought spain..once i heard Turin, it made sense.
 02/09/2006 08:44:03 AM · #4
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
Local media haven't said yet - we've been abit busy with teh Steeler thing ;)
I heard torino and thought spain..once i heard Turin, it made sense.


Hi Prof_Fate: it's curious your comment in one sense: I'm from Spain, and the name we use in Spain is Turín and the name in Italy is Torino.

EDIT: Of course if you are talking about Torino in Italy.

Message edited by author 2006-02-09 08:44:52.
 02/09/2006 08:44:04 AM · #5
I saw both in the same issue of the Boston Globe a few weeks ago, Turin in the news section and Torino in the sports section.

Anyone know what the locals in Turin/Torino say?
 02/09/2006 08:53:56 AM · #6
I think in Italian it's Torino. See my previous post.
 02/09/2006 08:59:25 AM · #7
Torino in our "local" paper. They're part of the Gannett group, so I imagine it's a corporate directive.
 02/09/2006 09:06:17 AM · #8
I went to Milan once, but when I actually got there it turned out to be Milano.

Italians just likes to keep foreigners confused, it's a running gag with them.
;-)

-edit: Oh yeah, my most vivid memory of Milano was being chased down a street by a pack of baby-toting gypsies.... I was laughing... :-D

Message edited by author 2006-02-09 09:08:06.
 02/09/2006 09:10:09 AM · #9
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
I went to Milan once, but when I actually got there it turned out to be Milano.


I was hitchiking in Greece going to Yugoslavia once, but no one would pick us up until I changed my sign to Jugoslavia! =)
 02/09/2006 05:49:26 PM · #10
anyone else noticed this difference in their local media?
 02/09/2006 06:47:18 PM · #11
Local media here are using "Turin", and there was a discussion of it in the sports pages. The TV people are using "Torino".

Robt.
 02/09/2006 06:56:01 PM · #12
I heard NPR use Turin this morning, and local CBS radio use Torino this afternoon.
 02/09/2006 07:10:18 PM · #13
CBC did a story on it and asked the locals. They say Torino.
 02/09/2006 07:47:47 PM · #14
Torino here. :)
 02/09/2006 08:36:08 PM · #15
Originally posted by strikeslip:
I went to Milan once, but when I actually got there it turned out to be Milano. Italians just likes to keep foreigners confused, it's a running gag with them.

I have never understood this. How come we, the english, have the arrogance to change somebody's city name? It must go back to the 17-19th centuries when all the explorations were taking place but it still doesn't make sense ... and why are we not correcting it now on all our maps?

It's not just Italy but all over the world where we have bastardised the names of some of the great cities of the world ... and continue to do so.

Imagine out indignation if people started using Londini, Theangles, Noyerk etc etc. We would think them ignorant savages :)

Brett
 02/09/2006 08:59:13 PM · #16
The worst in North America are anglasized (?) names that are actually French.
 02/09/2006 09:28:14 PM · #17
Originally posted by KiwiPix:
Originally posted by strikeslip:
I went to Milan once, but when I actually got there it turned out to be Milano. Italians just likes to keep foreigners confused, it's a running gag with them.

I have never understood this. How come we, the english, have the arrogance to change somebody's city name? It must go back to the 17-19th centuries when all the explorations were taking place but it still doesn't make sense ... and why are we not correcting it now on all our maps?

It's not just Italy but all over the world where we have bastardised the names of some of the great cities of the world ... and continue to do so.

Imagine out indignation if people started using Londini, Theangles, Noyerk etc etc. We would think them ignorant savages :)

Brett


Brett, I'm with you on this one, but it's not just English speaking peoples that are doing it.

The best thing would be that we always use the original name from the country in question.

But even French speaking people like me are translating names, here's a few examples:

North Carolina = Caroline du Nord
Florida = Floride
Los Angeles is often named "La Cité des Anges"
Georgia = Goergie
London = Londres
Netherlands = Pays Bas
Greenland = Groenland
Sweeden = Suède
Iceland = Islande
New Zealand = Nouvelle Zélande
New England = Nouvelle Angleterre

We could on and on like this. I think that every society on earth is using their own translation of places.
02/09/2006 09:57:48 PM · #18
Originally posted by KiwiPix:
It's not just Italy but all over the world where we have bastardised the names of some of the great cities of the world ... and continue to do so.

Imagine out indignation if people started using Londini, Theangles, Noyerk etc etc. We would think them ignorant savages :)


Hmmm, it's a good point. I wonder if the French cringe every time we say "Paris"?

But reversing things, Samaranch managed to insert an extra syllable into "Sydney" when he announced who was hosting the 2000 Olympics. It became part of our local folklore.

For that matter, plenty of Americans seem to have trouble saying the names of several of our major cities - even though Americans and Australians speak almost the same language! Though I guess it cuts both ways...

02/10/2006 11:49:27 AM · #19
When I was in Torino over the summer, I visited the Olympics landmark there...and they called it Torino :D

I haven't heard any media usages of it yet, though.
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