Nov
10
Am I Old-fashioned When It Comes To Names Of Cities Worldwide?
I still refer to the capital of China as Peking. The capital of Burma as Rangoon. I never called Cambodia ‘Kampuchea’. Calcutta, Bombay and Madras I still call by those names. And of course, the South African administrative capital is Pretoria. None of this ‘Tshwane’ s**t!
The old ones all sound bettet. Let’s all stick with them.
Yeah you are, get with the times…
No, you are not old fashioned, you are stubborn
What about Myanmar (new correct name for Burma)? I’m no good at geography so don’t really bother.
Yep, mate, we are getting old and it sometimes shows! Personally I like the sound of Tanganyika better than Tanzania … oh, and I still listen to the wireless and occasionally put records on the gramophone.
I find I am getting bilingual, though. I now know where Beijing and Mumbai are (and can pronounce them correctly)!
Very soon we shall catch ourselves saying that we don’t belieeeeve it.
of course they change them and dont tellus oldies
Well, at least you’re not using Siam instead of Thailand and Ceylon instead of Sri Lanka. Or casually refering to the Russian Federation as the USSR!
Fortunately for the Czechs and the Slovakians, you are not combining them to Czechoslovakian days!!!
okay, I guess I am too then… and I am not too up to date.
Yes your old fashioned and a few other things to boot.