Talk:Oświęcim

message: I don't really how did anyone get the pronounciation there'd been before I edited it. Listen to the recording. Is there any voiced labio-dental fricative? Nasal vowel? Not likely. The recording is how most people would pronounced it. Being from Poznań, I am supposed to voice the fricative but I don't really do and people in here don't really do it either. But still, it would be a rather dialectal (non-Oswiecimian!) idiosyncrasy - not necessarily a model for foreigners. Zbihniew 01:06, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The pronunciation audio clip is so quick that its impossible to hear clearly. Peter G Werner 06:53, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Exactly.Zbihniew 22:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In which case, shouldn't this article be moved to Oswiecim? This has come up recently in discussion of the naming of the Duchy of Oświęcim article, the argument being that the Duchy and town should be similarly named. Andrewa (talk) 17:56, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oświęcim does not have an English name. The only reason you sometimes see it written as 'Oswiecim', without the diacritics, is because of the limitations of the English keyboard (or, in some cases, laziness). This article should not be renamed, nor should the hundreds, possibly thousands, of other articles on places that have diacritics in their titles. Signalhead (talk) 19:09, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

text: In English, foreign words with diacritics are sometimes written with the diacritics, sometimes without. The form without them can be trivially deduced from the form with them; but the form with them cannot be deduced from the form without them. Therefore, for maximum information, we use the form with diacritics. (Tokyo is a totally different case.)--Kotniski (talk) 21:39, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Tōkyō is a totally different case, really? ;) Just kidding. My actual view is that cities and other places which have earned exonyms in the English language (e.g., Warsaw, Turin, Moscow, Japan, etc.) should be referred to by these exonyms in an English-language encyclopedia. Those less well-known places which have no English exonym should have their local names, retaining any diacritics, as typically rendered in a Roman alphabet. —RVJ (talk) 16:58, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  pronounciation 

message: How does one spell this town's name in English, without any diacritical marks? Would it be Oswiecim? Flibirigit 20:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly.Zbihniew 22:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In which case, shouldn't this article be moved to Oswiecim? This has come up recently in discussion of the naming of the Duchy of Oświęcim article, the argument being that the Duchy and town should be similarly named. Andrewa (talk) 17:56, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oświęcim does not have an English name. The only reason you sometimes see it written as 'Oswiecim', without the diacritics, is because of the limitations of the English keyboard (or, in some cases, laziness). This article should not be renamed, nor should the hundreds, possibly thousands, of other articles on places that have diacritics in their titles. Signalhead (talk) 19:09, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

text: In English, foreign words with diacritics are sometimes written with the diacritics, sometimes without. The form without them can be trivially deduced from the form with them; but the form with them cannot be deduced from the form without them. Therefore, for maximum information, we use the form with diacritics. (Tokyo is a totally different case.)--Kotniski (talk) 21:39, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Tōkyō is a totally different case, really? ;) Just kidding. My actual view is that cities and other places which have earned exonyms in the English language (e.g., Warsaw, Turin, Moscow, Japan, etc.) should be referred to by these exonyms in an English-language encyclopedia. Those less well-known places which have no English exonym should have their local names, retaining any diacritics, as typically rendered in a Roman alphabet. —RVJ (talk) 16:58, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Anglicized spelling

message: I have replaced the Germany link in the lead section in the sentence about the concentration camp with a link to Nazi Germany, as this is the country that built the camp and this is what it was called at the time. If anyone objects, please undo it. Cheers, Ouro (blah blah) 13:34, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germany link in the lead section 

message: In "Twin towns — Sister cities" Breisach is listed, but on the Breisach page Oświęcim is not listed. One of these needs to be fixed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.155.80 (talk) 15:00, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twins?