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Because he’s from Turkey, where he was a magician.

by jahewson 4y ago

bhaney 4y ago
You mean Türkiye?
- jahewson 4y ago
  That would be in Turkish and I’m writing in English.
  - sgt 4y ago
    Apparently it's supposed to be Türkiye in English now too. If you don't comply, you might receive a stern talking to from the ambassador!
    - diegoperini 4y ago
      Turkish here. Let politicians use whatever name they want. "Türkiye" is hard to pronounce in English and "Turkey" worked just fine for a hundred years. I'm not gonna report you :)
      - bombcar 4y ago
        Apparently based on Kiev vs Kyiv we’ll all switch to Türkiye after Russia invades.
      - sgt 4y ago
        Speaking of Turkey, how is the IT business and startup culture in Turkey? Just generally wondering. One hears very little of this big country in an obscure corner of Europe.
    - mrguyorama 4y ago
      Depending on the administration in the states, you could also just be assaulted by erdogan's body guards with zero recourse.
  - ev1 4y ago
    I think parent is referring to that Türkiye is now the requested English term. https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/turkey-to-use-t%C3%BCrkiye-in-all-activities-to-strengthen-its-brand-52307 https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/turkey-to-use-t%C3%BCrkiye-i...
    - lynguist 4y ago
      Funny thing is Türkiye is a French exonym for Turkey (la Turquie). It is not even a Turkish word or a word coined in Turkey. The suffix -iye, however, is also a suffix that is used in Turkish coined words of Persian and Arabic compounds where it means -ness or -ity: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/یت#Ottoman_Turkish https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/یت#Ottoman_Turkish There is kurabiye (gulabiye = gulab (rosewater) + -iye), and later coins such as cumhuriyet (cumhur (general public) + -iyet). Türkiye is not such a coinage. In Ottoman Turkish Türkiye would mean Turkness.
- 01acheru 4y ago
  One cannot enforce how to write or pronounce stuff in other languages, speakers of any language can call Turkey whatever they like in their language and what Erdogan decides has absolutely no value outside of Turkey.
  - coolspot 4y ago

Because he’s from Turkey, where he was a magician.

bhaney 4y ago

You mean Türkiye?

jahewson 4y ago
That would be in Turkish and I’m writing in English.
- sgt 4y ago
  Apparently it's supposed to be Türkiye in English now too. If you don't comply, you might receive a stern talking to from the ambassador!
  - diegoperini 4y ago
    Turkish here. Let politicians use whatever name they want. "Türkiye" is hard to pronounce in English and "Turkey" worked just fine for a hundred years. I'm not gonna report you :)
    - bombcar 4y ago
      Apparently based on Kiev vs Kyiv we’ll all switch to Türkiye after Russia invades.
    - sgt 4y ago
      Speaking of Turkey, how is the IT business and startup culture in Turkey? Just generally wondering. One hears very little of this big country in an obscure corner of Europe.
  - mrguyorama 4y ago
    Depending on the administration in the states, you could also just be assaulted by erdogan's body guards with zero recourse.
- ev1 4y ago
  I think parent is referring to that Türkiye is now the requested English term. https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/turkey-to-use-t%C3%BCrkiye-in-all-activities-to-strengthen-its-brand-52307 https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/turkey-to-use-t%C3%BCrkiye-i...
  - lynguist 4y ago
    Funny thing is Türkiye is a French exonym for Turkey (la Turquie). It is not even a Turkish word or a word coined in Turkey. The suffix -iye, however, is also a suffix that is used in Turkish coined words of Persian and Arabic compounds where it means -ness or -ity: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/یت#Ottoman_Turkish https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/یت#Ottoman_Turkish There is kurabiye (gulabiye = gulab (rosewater) + -iye), and later coins such as cumhuriyet (cumhur (general public) + -iyet). Türkiye is not such a coinage. In Ottoman Turkish Türkiye would mean Turkness.
01acheru 4y ago
One cannot enforce how to write or pronounce stuff in other languages, speakers of any language can call Turkey whatever they like in their language and what Erdogan decides has absolutely no value outside of Turkey.
- coolspot 4y ago