<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Alan Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qunchuy@alcaco.net" target="_blank">qunchuy@alcaco.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div>On Mar 13, 2018, at 9:22 AM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" target="_blank">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p>A name doesn't have to be translated canonically to be
translated. Sometimes a translation is appropriate; sometimes it
is better to keep it in the original language.</p>
<p>For a fascinating example of this, see J.R.R. Tolkien's own
instructions to translators on how to translate the names in <i>The
Lord of the Rings:</i> <a href="http://tolkien.ro/text/JRR%20Tolkien%20-%20Guide%20to%20the%20Names%20in%20The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings.pdf" target="_blank">A
Guide to the Names in <i>The Lord of the Rings</i></a><i>.</i></p></div></blockquote><br></span><div>Indeed, Facebook’s own guidelines say that its name is not to be translated. It should be referred to officially as exactly “Facebook” in every language.</div><div><br></div><div>That doesn’t stop unauthorized *unofficial* usage, of course.</div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">-- ghunchu'wI'</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Given Klingon phonology, it would be difficult to refer to it as *exactly* Facebook. You'd have to transliterate it. Then Klingons would wonder why a social networking site is called "Bag of Warfare".</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b>ben law' tlhIngan Hol vIghojchoH, 'ach moHaq wa'chaw 'oH wa' pab DI'on'e' vIqawlaHbe'chu'taHbogh. pIjHa' 'op moHaqmey vIlo', vaj chenbe' wov'on.<br></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><br></div></div>