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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: Pronouncing your name in another language
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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 05:21:36 GMT
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Not so very long ago, s25@ctdvx5.priv.ornl.gov said...

>By the way, does the Pope have an "official" name? Maybe this is a question for
>soc.religion.catholic (if such a group exists). But every country seems to
>translate his name into the local language - John Paul, Jan Pavel, Juan Pablo,
>etc. (Hmmm, what do they do in Esperanto?). Perhaps the Latin translation
>(Iannus ?) is the official one? Then why do you never hear it mentioned?

  I remember watching the announcement of the new pope, and hearing the 
name he had chosen for himself given as "Ioannes Paulus Secundus".  That's 
probably as official as it gets.
  However, understand that for the most part, popes' names are the same 
as the names of people in the Bible (plus some other words, like 
"Pious"), and people will use the national-language forms of those names, 
as found in the translations of the Bible that they use.

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