02-11-2006, 10:42 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Is it Turin or Torino?
People use two names for the city. I just read the Herald and they used "Turin," while CBC uses "Torino."
Is there a reason why?
Was it renamed a while back or something?
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02-11-2006, 10:55 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary, AB
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Torino is the actual name. Turin is the english version of the name.
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02-11-2006, 10:57 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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You are very correct Fire.  All of Italy is like that.
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02-11-2006, 11:05 AM
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Scoring Winger
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Quite right. I did exchange for 6 months in Torino. Nice city, but the mountains are spectacular.
Some of the main attractions are the Shroud of Turin and the Film Musium.
If you go to Itlay make sure you take a couple of days to visit this city.
And BTW - Milan = Milano Rome = Roma Florence = Firenze etc...
Last edited by CanadaMatt; 02-11-2006 at 11:08 AM.
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02-11-2006, 12:05 PM
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Draft Pick
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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Last night while watching CBC I only heard them all use "Turin"...
Some lady on Jack was all whipped up yesterday about it...said it should be Turino..
Whatever.
Florence and Venice are my favourite cities in Italy. Loved them both. Never did go to Turin though....
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02-11-2006, 01:24 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by CanadaMatt
Quite right. I did exchange for 6 months in Torino. Nice city, but the mountains are spectacular.
Some of the main attractions are the Shroud of Turin and the Film Musium.
If you go to Itlay make sure you take a couple of days to visit this city.
And BTW - Milan = Milano Rome = Roma Florence = Firenze etc...
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really? so it's really the Shroud of Torino?
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02-11-2006, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Richmond, BC
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It's Turin.
If the Olympics were in Rome would we call them the Roma Games? Don't think so.
TURIN.
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02-11-2006, 03:11 PM
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Draft Pick
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by evman150
It's Turin.
If the Olympics were in Rome would we call them the Roma Games? Don't think so.
TURIN.
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When in Rome do as the Romans do....they call it Roma.
Point is..one is the Italian way and one is the English way of saying it. Take your pick! Neither is wrong.
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02-11-2006, 03:32 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: in transit
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I'll disagree, evman. Quite a hint of arrogance there.
It's Turino. It's in Italy, the Italians called it Turino, thus the city's name is Turino.
We might call it Turin, but the real name is Turino.
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02-11-2006, 03:58 PM
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Draft Pick
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by rockstar
I'll disagree, evman. Quite a hint of arrogance there.
It's Turino. It's in Italy, the Italians called it Turino, thus the city's name is Turino.
We might call it Turin, but the real name is Turino.
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Actually, if you're going with the Italian... it's "Torino"
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02-11-2006, 04:03 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Why do we call Germany "Germany"?
They call it "Deutchland"
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02-11-2006, 04:19 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Germans call Canada, Kanada.
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02-11-2006, 04:45 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: in transit
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Originally Posted by ChrisC
Actually, if you're going with the Italian... it's "Torino"
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Details, details! 
You know what I mean.
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02-11-2006, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by evman150
It's Turin.
If the Olympics were in Rome would we call them the Roma Games? Don't think so.
TURIN.
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What do you think about the fact that Italians call Calgary, Calgario?
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02-11-2006, 04:59 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by rockstar
I'll disagree, evman. Quite a hint of arrogance there.
It's Turino. It's in Italy, the Italians called it Turino, thus the city's name is Turino.
We might call it Turin, but the real name is Turino.
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So let me know when you start calling China: Zhōnghuá and Japan: Nihon.
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02-11-2006, 05:30 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: back in the 403
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Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze
What do you think about the fact that Italians call Calgary, Calgario?
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I'm shocked and dismayed, and appauled!! You know the old expression, "when in Calgary, do as the Calgarians do" 
...actually to be perfectly honesnt I dont give two craps how they refer to Calgary. I'd laugh if someone told me they were ever offended by that. Actually Calgario's got nice ring to it. Maybe we should get ol Bronco on the horn and get him to look into changin that. The Calgario Flamios...I LIKE it!!!
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02-11-2006, 05:31 PM
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Franchise Player
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lol
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02-11-2006, 05:36 PM
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One of the Nine
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What do we say... Home is where the heart is? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...?
Call it as you see it. You speak english, it's called Turin. You're coming to Italy, get with the program and address it proper... Torino...
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02-11-2006, 05:45 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
So let me know when you start calling China: Zhōnghuá and Japan: Nihon.
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We call them China and Japan. That's perfectly fine and I have no problem with it. But their real names given to them by the people of that area are (whatever the hell you said) and (whatever the hell you said). 
But maybe I will start calling them that...I'll let you know.
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02-11-2006, 07:03 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Either is acceptable. It seems that "Torino 2006" is the official name of the games, but (in English) the games are being held in Turin, Italy - if that makes any sense.
If you go to the official English website for the games ( http://www.torino2006.org ), they refer to the games as a whole as "Torino 2006", but in any reference to the host city, it's always "Turin".
I believe this is the format that the CBC is using as well. NBC, on the other hand, is only using the name Torino - which adds to the confusion for those of us in Canada who can watch both the CBC and NBC coverage.
I read that the head of NBC Sports visited Turin at some point and decided that he liked the name Torino, so he declared that's what NBC was going to call the city in their coverage.
Speaking of the official site for the games, if you go there now, this is the first picture you'll see...
Crazy Canadian chicks, and bewildered Italian men.
Last edited by getbak; 02-11-2006 at 07:16 PM.
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