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> calling how they pronounce words "not real" (which is what you wrote in the title of your post and what I took offence with).

The title does not say Bangalore is not a 'real name'. That is your intepretation, presumably to justify your argument.

> Respect starts by not forcing pronunciation on foreign languages

Not forcing anything, it was posted as informational. The tone in the link or my comments is not forceful. Your own tone, however? Again, framed justification.

> Edit: Bangalore is called Bengaluru in Kannada. That's about it.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bangalore&t=h_&ia=web&iaxm=maps

https://www.google.com/maps/place/bangalore

https://binged.it/2PYvubq

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=bangalore#map=12/...

Not just Kannada, all of the above mapping services "actually" recognise Bangalore as Bengaluru. But, if you don't want to do that or take offence to a perspective that differs from yours, that is your prerogative.

> The title does not say Bangalore is not a 'real name'. That is your intepretation, presumably to justify your argument.

The title of this thread at the time I posted my comments was "The real name of Bangalore is Bengaluru".

You obviously know that this you are the poster.

HN is about honest discussion... You see to have starting this with an agenda in mind.

I did change the title, twice, within the first few minutes to make it read more easily. Not in response to your comment, that I had not seen yet, which now appears to be more focused on nitpicking the title than what was actually posted.

Since you know so well what HN is about, you'll know that you should read the content of what is posted and not just drive-by comment based on the title. Then it should have been clear that the post had nothing to do with denying Bangalore as a "real name".

The only agenda was to inform people about something I came across that I thought was interesting. That what a lot of people still refer to as Bangalore has had it's name changed by the Indian government to Bengaluru and that people should probably start using that name.

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