another english gripe

[rone]

"Rubenesque".  The painter's name was Rubens; thus, the term should be "Rubensesque".

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[deirdremoon.livejournal.com]

Say, is it confusing in Spanish-bilingual company that the European Union is calling itself the EU, when that has also stood for Estados Unidos? Or is the EU always called something else in Spanish anyway?

Gods, I know just enough to get myself into trouble...

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Heh, i imagine they'll just call it the UE (Unión Europea). Also, the US is rendered as the EEUU (because it's plural, they duplicate the initials... it's dumb, i know. don't get me started on the capitalization of 'double letters' such as ch and ll... seeing the country spelled CHile drove me insane in my youth).