Talk:Formosa (disambiguation)
Should this just be a redirect to Taiwan, or is there a reason to have a separate article? --Brion VIBBER
Isn't "formosa" Portuguese, not Spanish? -- Zoe
- Yup... I'm just going to make this page a redirect until told otherwise. --Brion VIBBER
- Actually, old Spanish also had the word, during the transition when F became H in many words (Farina->Harina, Fumo->Humo, etc). The Argentie province of Formosa is named after the old spanish word. Mariano(t/c) 09:51, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
This is not true. The argentine province is named Formosa because it is in the exact antipodes of the island, and so it derives from portuguese. Check out the map at Antipodes. When the Spanish people went to the New World, spanish already used hermosa exclusively. And old spanish for hermosa was fermosa not formosa. 84.90.18.136 22:43, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
- sorry, but there is no real evidence to support such nonsense, btw: formōsa > fermosa > formosa --Shmi
Disambig Taiwan
Should the Formosas on those ship articles be disambiguated as [[Taiwan|Formosa]] or just replace [[Formosa]] with [[Taiwan]]? Any reason not to or to do so? --Menchi 17:37, Aug 9, 2003 (UTC)
- Change it to Taiwan. --Jiang
- The ship articles tend to use contemporaneous names, and when the Japanese controlled it, it was "Formosa". It would be a bit jarring for some to read that the "US Navy shelled enemy installations on Taiwan" ("we were at war with Taiwan!?"), but aside from that moment of confusion, I think it's OK either way. Stan 05:34, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)
'non-native name'
I've deleted 'non-native name'. I do not believe there is any need to flag that this is a 'non-native' name. As usual with Chinese names, the problem seems to lie in a perception that the use of a non-Chinese name for something that is part of China is a violation of national sovereignty. Even if it is unquestionably accepted by most Chinese, it is arguably an extreme position and does not need to be unnecessarily emphasised.