You must be an American? Only Americans act like they get to define what the rest of the world calls places. It’s Gulf of Mexico. Only a country of idiots would call it gulf of America.
Do you see anyone making Koreans call it Sea of Japan? Americans can call it whatever they want as long as Americans never try to lecture others what it is called. Deal?
Oops, someone forgot languages evolve! Otherwise you must use Turkye, one of the Middle English spellings.
The United Nations agreed to their request, it’s a minor thing to let people spell it the way that was requested. You don’t have to, but others can. Languages evolve.
Twitter/X is a company, it calls itself whatever it wants, and is likely registered somewhere under a specific name. Okay, people don’t call it X, the same way people pronounce IKEA weirdly or refer to vacuums as hoovers.
Language is a malleable, artificial construct. What’s your point? That some people are stuck in their ways? Because the comment I was responding to was appalled that someone dares use the modern spelling for a country.
I have never heard someone call Belarus White Russia, notably any of the Belarusians or Russians I know. I have no idea why someone would do that. Of all the hills to die on...
It's pretty arrogant for a foreigner to tell me how to spell his county name in my own language, which doesn't even have those letters in an alphabet. All while adding -stan suffix to my country name in their language.
The name "Turkey" has been in the English language for many centuries. It's a bit of a tall order to suddenly demand that everyone start using a different name for the country. Imagine if England suddenly demanded that everyone call them Aengelande.
The government decided to do this because they're embarrassed that a bird has the same name as the country. Ironically, the bird is named after the country.
Without me getting into the specific issue, that's false. Languages evolve by how they are used, regardless whether who uses them is native speaker or not. All languages who have been at some time used "universally" in larger regions evolved reflecting that reality.
This is a genuinely dumb take and you should feel foolish for even thinking it.
Incase you dont, consider the concept of telling an Austrian that German is a foreign language for them. If this concept confuses you, I can get wikipedia links.
Thank you for telling me how I should feel! I will take it to heart and next time I'm in any doubt over how I am feeling I'll ask myself "how would LAC-Tech expect me to feel right now?" and change my feelings accordingly.
Funnily enough, on the HN zeal to prove you wrong about this, posters who dont know know about this topic dont actually realize Turkey dont give a damn about the Anglicanized name outside diplomatic context
