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On Jul 8, 11:11*am, Hafam Hock > wrote:
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Naples is near Italy?

"Surreyman" > ha scritto nel
>Naples is near Italy?

He does not want to offend itaglians people, is a joke.

On 07/09/2011 08:56 AM, Surreyman wrote:
> On Jul 8, 11:11 am, Hafam > wrote:
>> http://www.ansa.it/webimages/large/2...b160554b9a5d01...
>
> Naples is near Italy?

Nearer than Naples Florida.

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 23:56:00 -0700 (PDT), Surreyman
> wrote:

> On Jul 8, 11:11*am, Hafam Hock > wrote:
> > http://www.ansa.it/webimages/large/2...b160554b9a5d01...
>
> Naples is near Italy?


If you want to be technical about it, no it's not near Italy at all.
It's way on the other side of the Atlantic, in Florida.

And Napoli (not Naples) is of course *in* Italy, not near it. But with
a name like Hafam Hock, he is probably not a native speaker of English
and he used the wrong preposition. No big deal.


--
Ken Blake

9.7.2011 19:30, Ken Blake kirjoitti:
>
> If you want to be technical about it, no it's not near Italy at all.
> It's way on the other side of the Atlantic, in Florida.
>
There are towns of Naples also in New York and in Maine. Possibly
elsewhere too.
>
> And Napoli (not Naples) is of course *in* Italy, not near it. But with
>
The name is truly spelled as Naples in English. In Finnish and Italian
it is Napoli.

On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:55:02 +0300, Markku Grönroos
> wrote:

> 9.7.2011 19:30, Ken Blake kirjoitti:
> >
> > If you want to be technical about it, no it's not near Italy at all.
> > It's way on the other side of the Atlantic, in Florida.
> >
> There are towns of Naples also in New York and in Maine. Possibly
> elsewhere too.


Yes, I mentioned only the best-known US one.

> >
> > And Napoli (not Naples) is of course *in* Italy, not near it. But with
> >
> The name is truly spelled as Naples in English.


Of course. But...


> In Finnish and Italian
> it is Napoli.


....it's an Italian city and in Italian, it's spelled Napoli. That
means that it's correct name is Napoli.


--
Ken Blake

10.7.2011 0:14, Ken Blake kirjoitti:
> ...it's an Italian city and in Italian, it's spelled Napoli. That
> means that it's correct name is Napoli.
>
In Italian. In similar fashion you can say that Prague, Cologne and
Munich should be spelled differently.

On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:21:54 +0300, Markku Grönroos
> wrote:

> 10.7.2011 0:14, Ken Blake kirjoitti:
> > ...it's an Italian city and in Italian, it's spelled Napoli. That
> > means that it's correct name is Napoli.
> >
> In Italian. In similar fashion you can say that Prague, Cologne and
> Munich should be spelled differently.


Yes. Praha, Köln, and MÜnchen. Those are their correct names, and what
we call them in English are anglicizations of their correct names.

--
Ken Blake