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Are we avoiding "Turkiye" as an expression of anti-Erdogan politics? Is it ok to call Kinshasa the capital of Rhodesia?
by thanatropism 4y ago
Are we avoiding "Turkiye" as an expression of anti-Erdogan politics? Is it ok to call Kinshasa the capital of Rhodesia?
- mig39 4y agoYou mean "Harare" ?
- thanatropism 4y agoI meant Kinshasa, godamit. I also cited the wrong capital, so I was wrong. But I meant what I said!!
- empathy_m 4y agoI think the media is slow to catch up on this stuff, yeah. The AP's article[1] on the Türkiye rename was datelined from "ANKARA, Turkey (AP)" :) I don't know whether the delay is necessarily a matter of political preference or just general slowness in English-language media. The press does a good job of changing the names of sports arenas whenever the advertiser sponsorship causes a rename. This kind of inside-baseball use-of-names media stuff is something I used to see on Jim Romenesko's blog 20 years ago and it doesn't really have a good home now. It can't be all politics; although the US government still prefers "Rangoon" and "Burma", most of the press writes "Yangon" and "Myanmar".
- 4gotunameagain 4y agoThink of it the same as the facebook --> meta situation. There should be friction to rebranding.