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And Germany's official name is "Bundesrepublik Deutschland". I get to call it Germany though.
by jnwatson 4mo ago
And Germany's official name is "Bundesrepublik Deutschland". I get to call it Germany though.
- triceratops 4mo agoBut not germany.
- marky1991 4mo agoThis sort of language policing is pointless.
- triceratops 4mo agoI mean it matters here. "turkey" and "Turkey" legitimately have different meanings.
- marky1991 4mo agoSo does 'mark' and 'Mark', that doesn't mean I correct everyone (or myself) every time they/I type my name without using a capital letter.
- triceratops 4mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388057
- BigGreenJorts 4mo agoOk but are there Wired articles about you?
- gacgacgac 4mo agoHas Germany said they should be called Deutschland by English speakers?
- IncreasePosts 4mo agoIs it a right of any nation to assert what other nations call it? Can America ask China to stop calling them 美国 (Měiguó) and call them the USA? The problem with the turkey rebranding is that it was a mere orthographic update, but it is using orthography that is very non standard(whatever that means for English), including using a diacritic rarely seen in English. I could get behind it more if they completely changed the name, like a when Swaziland switched to eswatini. But for now, you can pry turkey from my cold dead hands
- triceratops 4mo ago> But for now, you can pry turkey from my cold dead hands Big fan of Thanksgiving foods I see. (Do you see the real problem? Lowercasing a proper noun that has another meaning when lowercased. Turkey/Türkiye is just the cherry on top)
- patates 4mo agoIf you need an example, look at the Peking->Beijing transition.
- suddenlybananas 4mo agohttps://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekin https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekin Turkish still uses the old term. Why should I change my language to suit them if they won't do it for others.
- patates 4mo ago[flagged]
- gacgacgac 4mo agoThat attitude is, frankly, pretty misanthropic. "Why should I do anything for anyone who doesn't do it for me first" is how you get nowhere. So here's your why: because they asked you to and you are better at it than they are. If you need smug superiority, you could use that too, I guess. People change their names and nick names all the time. I don't go and check every value of theirs before I use their new name. It's really not that complicated.
- olalonde 4mo agoGermany's official English name is Germany[0]. [0] https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/view/745bbc2a-fc50-4b94-bb96-2ff7ed380081 https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/view/745bbc2a-fc50-4b94-bb9...