Okay, gotta throw this off my chest. As a Slav who has lived in Bosnia, whenever I hear English speakers talking about the Jezero Crater on Mars, I cringe.
Why? Because the pronunciation is butchered beyond recognition. In the same way Slavic names are butchered.
It's [YEH-zə-roh] not [JEH-zə-roh]. It's named after a lake in Bosnia, whose name literally means "lake" (such meta!) in the local language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezero_(crater)
It's not even that hard. English has all the required phonemes! 🙏
@rysiek That seems to be the curse of all Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet: they don't get transliterated, but the pronunciation is incompatible with English.
Now that I think of it, the same's the case for German. Do we know of some German-sourced names that got the same treatment for "j"?
