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The country has officially asked that it be referred to and spelled that way. If a friend asked me to refer to them with a different name, I'd sure look like a
by mabbo 3y ago
The country has officially asked that it be referred to and spelled that way.
If a friend asked me to refer to them with a different name, I'd sure look like a jerk if I made a point to not do so, even though I know it's their preference. Just the same, I try to remember that the country formerly spelled Turkey is now spelled Türkiye.
Perhaps someday they'll say it doesn't matter, or they prefer the old way. Today isn't that day yet.
- tgv 3y agoOTOH, a country is not a conscious, communicating being that's sensitive about its name. The name change follows a decision by a few civil servants and politicians.
- TheRealPomax 3y agoYes, that's what "the country" means, it's shorthand for "the government of the country".
- readthenotes1 3y agoSo what do you call that big country just west of France? Exonyms have been a thing for longer than I can remember....
- ayhanfuat 3y agoMeanwhile, that friend is calling everyone whatever he likes. England: İngiltere, Germany: Almanya, London: Londra, Munich: Münih.
- nurettin 3y agoThat's fine, his English friend isn't going to start calling Germany: Deutschland anytime soon.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoOr, the friend is ignorant of the constraints upon asking an entity without the tools (alphabet) to bend to their will.
- earthling8118 3y agoYeah, it's an unreasonable request. I don't even know how to type that symbol. It isn't on my keyboard. Sure, I could probably find a way to type it or copy it from somewhere else. Or I could just keep calling it Turkey and move on.
- dryrun 3y agoI find this take so odd. I presume your are from the US, which is a country with so many cultures flowing in, but from your post you will not accept that a friend of yours may have accents in their name, or that a dish may have accents in it, and will forever misspell them. When I have friends like that (well, my brother too), I make a point of typing it the way it's supposed to be written, out of courtesy and fun and proudness, like I'm clever enough to type any character I want with my keyboard, because I master it and I master other languages. The day I'll learn how to type Chinese characters fluently, I'll be so happy ! Not to boast, but it will mean I unlocked a whole new world!
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThat’s great of you, the burden might be different when asking hundreds of millions of people.
- ShrigmaMale 3y agoyes actually? America literally doesn't use any accents so we write stuff without them. we basically never even use them on cafe, resume, words of that sort. like japanese has no L sound. so (if google translate is to be believed) their exonym for Lithuania is pronounced "Ritoania", and uses an entirely different alphabet. if you want to learn to use endonyms for countries cool! but most people aren't interested in that level of effort for the whole world. there are ten thousand other things that occupy their minds, every one jockeying for a spot, and this being a passion of yours doesn't change that. idk why you think there should be any different rules from this, except the general sense of anti-Americanism that seems to pervade this discussion.
- golemiprague 3y ago[dead]
- ShrigmaMale 3y agofine. then every spanish speaker should call my country The United States of America, not Los Estados Unidos. be equal about this or don't even start. also: i will under no circumstances use a name that my keyboard cannot type with standard American english. no one besides the new yorker uses an umlaut in our language.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoYeah, be equal, call Bangkok by its full name.