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Is it really _as weird_ as calling SF Saint Francis? This link would suggest that the name "Three Rivers" exists at least in some capacity
http://www.cqsb.qc.ca/MyScriptorWeb/scripto.asp?resultat=253...
And the Wiki article says
>Traditionally, Trois-Rivières was referred to in English as Three Rivers
although it then goes on to say that this is becoming less and less common.
Edit: and a completely irrelevant but somewhat interesting piece of information, the city's inhabitants are called Trifluvians. I say interesting because the fluv- part obviously comes from the other French word for river, fleuve, rather than the one used in the actual name of the city, rivièr.
This applies to text and common nouns. Not cities, trademarks or proper names.
Home Depot is still called Home Depot on Quebec signs. While some companies will put a French noun next to their English names, this isn't required.
As for a sign with Three Rivers, Trois-Rivières is a proper name, you don't usually translate those just like we don't translate people's name.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exonym_and_endonym:
The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names defines:
Endonym: Name of a geographical feature in an official or well-established language occurring in that area where the feature is located.
Exonym: Name used in a specific language for a geographical feature situated outside the area where that language is spoken, and differing in its form from the name used in an official or well-established language of that area where the geographical feature is located.[2]
For example, China, India and Germany are the English exonyms corresponding to the endonyms Zhongguo, Bharat and Deutschland, respectively.
"Its native name, München, is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning 'by the monks' place'." [0]
Relatedly, it's "Monaco" in Italian, so Monaco the principality is "Montecarlo."
People localizing their country name creates confusion, typically a citizen from Cote d'Ivoire unable to explain to an airport official where he's from because the official only knows the locally translated name.
It's probably much more likely that google translate did a literal translation of the city's name.
Running the article through GT shows that GT doesn't translate the name of the city. It keeps it in its original French form, both as an isolated word (just running Trois-Rivières through the translator) as well as part of the whole article.
There's nothing really odd or strange about this, and Trois-Rivières/Three Rivers is a trivial example, in which the translation is directly obvious. There are plenty of other examples that are a bit more confusing, especially where German place names are concerned; see Bratislava/Pressburg or Aix-la-Chappelle/Aachen.
Calling San Francisco "St. Francis" is strange because "San Francisco" has become the standard English name of that city, which doesn't seem to be the case for Trois-Rivières/Three Rivers - the very fact that no one ever says "St. Francis" but the author of this blog did use "Three Rivers" is evidence of this.
In franglais it is called "tree rivers"
https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Masse-Denial-of-Servi...
Yeah, what?