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> 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 behav
by 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.
- dash2 2y agoIt sounds like we don't disagree!
- chucksta 2y agoUpdating everything, teaching everyone, no benefit to English speakers besides being nice. What happens next year if they wanna switch it back? And then the year after that if it changes again? How many countries go through some sort of rebrand in a year? Who gets respected and who doesn't? Why? Or we could just keep calling it what we call it.