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It's not weird, it's simple patriotism from the last sultan, seeing his empire folding. Catching the last straw to get media attention and unite his people. Th
by rurban 4y ago
It's not weird, it's simple patriotism from the last sultan, seeing his empire folding. Catching the last straw to get media attention and unite his people.
The convention is to use the simplest common language (english) for such names, not the original, internal names.
And Greece is certainly called Ελλάδα inside, not the "Greek Democracy".
Such requests would not lead far. As you can see that still everybody refuses to write Japanese names (e.g. in sports) in the correct order. It got better with Chinese and Korean names recently, but foreigners are still extremely wrong about Japanese conventions.
- reustle 4y ago> but foreigners are still extremely wrong about Japanese conventions. And don't get us started about how they treat our foreign names here within Japan
- eska 4y agoMaikeru jooji and Donarudo Toranpu would like to have a word. Refuse to write names in correct order? How about refusing to open a bank account for you because they won’t allow YOUR country’s conventions.
- cafard 4y agoShoot, they write Hungarian names in the wrong order.
- zvr 4y ago> And Greece is certainly called Ελλάδα inside, not the "Greek Democracy". I assume you translated the "Ελληνική Δημοκρατία" of the parent comment somehow, but it is not correct. The actual translation is "Hellenic Republic", which is what is written in official documents (for example, on passport covers). As you correctly point out, the state name (Hellenic Republic) is not always the country name (Hellas).