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Just like every other part of life, I'll generally call people what they ask to be called. Türkiye has requested internationally to be known under this name.
by darby_nine 2y ago
Just like every other part of life, I'll generally call people what they ask to be called. Türkiye has requested internationally to be known under this name.
- eps 2y agoWell, there are no umlauts in English.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoThat's not an umlaut, that's a Ü. It's just a normal letter in Turkish, unlike in German where the umlaut is a vowel modifier.
- whatgoodisaroad 2y agoIn fact there are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical_marks#Native_English_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical...
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- esafak 2y agoThe government requested that, but not its people. Apparently it was a branding exercise: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61671913 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61671913
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- nemetroid 2y agoYes, it’s a rebranding, that’s what the word means.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoMy keyboard doesn't have a Ü
- SalientBlue 2y agoA decent compromise could be to spell it Turkiye on an English keyboard. The article's url does that already.
- ein0p 2y ago[flagged]
- was_a_dev 2y agoI'd learn. My capabilities aren't static with time
- riffraff 2y agoWhy do you think it's just them? We have stopped calling Birmania like that, same as Ceylon, or the Czech Republic. I'll keep using turkey out of habit but it's not like it's an uncommon occurrence for a country to ask that a different name be used.
- adamomada 2y agoFunny you mentioned the Czech Republic: there is a concerted effort by their hockey federation to be called Czechia and we’re getting blasted with it by Bell Media in Canada for the past few years
- filoleg 2y agoI wonder if this this region/language dependent. Because I remember that in russian, they’ve been called “Czechia” since at least when Czechoslovakia got broken up, but in english it still seems to be squarely referred to as “Czech Republic”.
- riffraff 2y agoit's definitely language dependent, we used to (mostly) call it "Repubblica Ceca" in Italian but have largely switched to "Cechia" now. Which is weird enough, since Italy is literally called "Repubblica Italiana" on our own passports, but we never call it that.
- lancesells 2y agoOf course I would try. What's the issue with any of that? Such a weird thing to take a stand on.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoOne doesn't get to dictate how their name gets rendered in a foreign language. The government of Turkey can feel free to ask, but the collective answer from the English speaking world should be "no".
- darby_nine 2y ago> The government of Turkey can feel free to ask, but the collective answer from the English speaking world should be "no". Why? This just seems like dick behavior for no benefit to anyone.
- dash2 2y agoI disagree. Again, if the German government demanded everybody call Germany "Deutschland", I'd say "we've been calling Germany 'Germany' for hundreds of years. The English word for Deutschland is 'Germany'. People are entitled to use the language they like, nobody is stopping you promoting 'Deutschland' and seeing if that takes off." It is not analogous with an individual person's name.
- darby_nine 2y ago> The English word for Deutschland is 'Germany'. Sure, right up until people start using Deutschland. Prescriptivist attempts to control language will always fail.
- chucksta 2y agoThen English would be using a German word, much like the rest of the english language. It doesn't magically make it English
- darby_nine 2y ago> It doesn't magically make it English It does if people use it enough.
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- mrkeen 2y agoWe'll take it under advisement. In the meantime we'll see if they start writing Sverige instead of İsveç.
- darby_nine 2y agoWhen speaking in english, Sweden renders its own name as Sweden. They are free to request people spell it Sverige and I would respect that, too.