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Never heard of Mechanical Turk, hahah for a Dutch person it sounds pretty racist. Turk is what we call Turkish people.

margalabargala 3y ago
It's a reference to an old famous chess playing "machine" that had a human inside it' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
- wouldbecouldbe 3y ago
  Yeah I read, just interesting for non-english cultures sounds very different.
  - baxter001 3y ago
    No, it doesn't, Turk is what we call Turkish people too.
  - WrongAssumption 3y ago
    It was invented by a Hungarian to impress an Austrian. The Turk portion of the name is from the original Hungarian. It toured Europe for 80+ years. I have no clue what about this you think has anything to do with English culture.
  - renewiltord 3y ago
    That’s nothing. In American English, calling someone a turkey would be an insult. Turkey is how we refer to the nation Türkiye Cumhuriyeti. Imagine calling an entire nation an ungainly bird that we ritually consume every November. Almost as bad as giving Michael Jordan his own seat at the UN. But that’s what capitalism and the US hegemony have brought us.
    - mr_toad 3y ago
      > Imagine calling an entire nation an ungainly bird The bird was named after the country. And the country after the ethnic groups who spoke the Turkic languages, which derive from the native term Türk, which goes back at least 1400 years. Changing the spelling and pronunciation changes nothing. Saying that we called the country after the bird is buying into populist rabble-rousing without doing even five minutes of fact checking.
      - renewiltord 3y ago
        I think Alastair Graham's work on Michael Jordan's outsize influence at the UN should be accounted for. You've failed to do that.
    - esafak 3y ago
      There's an interesting story behind the name: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Turkey https://www.etymonline.com/word/Turkey

It's a reference to an old famous chess playing "machine" that had a human inside it' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

wouldbecouldbe 3y ago
Yeah I read, just interesting for non-english cultures sounds very different.
- baxter001 3y ago
  No, it doesn't, Turk is what we call Turkish people too.
- WrongAssumption 3y ago
  It was invented by a Hungarian to impress an Austrian. The Turk portion of the name is from the original Hungarian. It toured Europe for 80+ years. I have no clue what about this you think has anything to do with English culture.
- renewiltord 3y ago
  That’s nothing. In American English, calling someone a turkey would be an insult. Turkey is how we refer to the nation Türkiye Cumhuriyeti. Imagine calling an entire nation an ungainly bird that we ritually consume every November. Almost as bad as giving Michael Jordan his own seat at the UN. But that’s what capitalism and the US hegemony have brought us.
  - mr_toad 3y ago
    > Imagine calling an entire nation an ungainly bird The bird was named after the country. And the country after the ethnic groups who spoke the Turkic languages, which derive from the native term Türk, which goes back at least 1400 years. Changing the spelling and pronunciation changes nothing. Saying that we called the country after the bird is buying into populist rabble-rousing without doing even five minutes of fact checking.
    - renewiltord 3y ago
      I think Alastair Graham's work on Michael Jordan's outsize influence at the UN should be accounted for. You've failed to do that.
  - esafak 3y ago
    There's an interesting story behind the name: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Turkey https://www.etymonline.com/word/Turkey