+169 It's Türkiye not Turkey. amirite?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So what? It's Deutschland, not Germany. Italia, not Italy. Österreich, not Austria. Belgique not Belgium. Schweiz, not Switzerland. Nihon, not Japan. Mesr, not Egypt... The list goes on and on. Countries have different names in different languages. Turkey is nothing special in this regard.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You successfully changed my opinion, good day sir.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's lady, but you're most welcome :)

by Anonymous 2 years ago

*tips fedora, "m'lady"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

"m'Turkey"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Plus there's no god damned umlats in English.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

>Deutschland, not Germany I look forward to Deutschland becoming uber alles again in the whole world. "Make Deutschland Uber Alles Again" /s

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Seems kinda weird that we have to call them by their Turkish language name. Most countries names are spelled and pronounced differently depending on the language. We don't call Japan Nippon or India Hindustan

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's pronounced the same and whats wrong with nippon or hindustan. The main problem would be that people arnt used to them.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The main problem is we have our own names for stuff so maybe they can chill. Never said there was anything wrong with those names but they aren't the names we historically use. Also, Nippon would be potentially problematic. This all seems like micro aggression from control freak Erdogan

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Turkish people don't call the Philippines the Tagalog name (Pilipinas), they call it Filipinler. The Turkish should follow their logic.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I highly doubt people are going to start saying italia, España, Rossiya, or Deutschland. Do you do this?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Is India really Hindustan? That sounds kinda racist honestly, like if someone called Iraq Islamostan.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

How would either of those be racist?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Racist may be the wrong word but it just seems really odd to me.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So you're saying it's racist to call Germany Duetschland?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Stan means land. It is called Hindustan, land of the Hindus. Kazakhstan, land of the Kazakhs etc

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Indians use the name Bharat more often than Hindustan.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Italy woke up was Hungary ate Turkey slipped on Greece and broke China.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The UN has multiple languages. English does not have umlauts. So this literally can't be represented in English. Also what do you call the large archipelago nation east of China? Because unless it's Nihon, it's wrong. Most countries use different versions or exonyms because the language they use can't well denote the country name.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Or you know China? That's not Chinese for China.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's leviosa, not leviossahh

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Except apparently levioso now too

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I prefer chicken myself

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's chïckyen*

by Anonymous 2 years ago

T..<open Microsoft word, click INSERT, click Symbol, click More Symbols, scroll down, locate ü, click on ü, click Insert, highlight ü, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, crap wrong ‘ű', click INSERT, click Symbol, click More Symbols, scroll down, locate ü, click on ü, click Insert, highlight ü, ctrl-c, ctrl-v>…r…k…i…y…e. Yay I did it!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Bro I cant evenn spel in Engilsh.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

My man needs to get hooked on phonics

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I dont care

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Only if the Turks recognize their part in the Armenian genocide.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Not in English. Besides, why give satisfaction to such a terrible government.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, whatever. Call me when you acknowledge the Armenian genocide.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's "regional conflict" not "we wanted to commit ethnic cleansing"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Invited for tea

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Oh god what's in the tea

by Anonymous 2 years ago

We could ask the Armenians, I heard they like bullets in their tea apparently

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The *ongoing* Armenian genocide.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah nah, we don't even have the ü in our alphabet. There are tons of countries we don't even call by their Native name. Germany, Japan, China, Korea and India come to mind.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

How much you wanna bet the Turkish don't call foreign countries by their natives names, but by Turkish names?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Mhm. Yea. Sure. I'm sure every country will ahide to spell and pronounce your *local* country name in your way, while it doesn't follow any rules of their respective languages' spelling and pronounciation rules.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

…..no..

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's what I can easily type. People.focusing on the petty instead of helping are the ignorant ones.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I mean I don't really get the point. Basically every country isn't called its native name in other languages. Why Turkey needs to differentiate seems a bit odd.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Congrats on an actual unpopular opinion. Considering english doesn't have that u letter in it, no one is going to write it like that. FFS my family is danish and in that language it's Danmark and english won't even spell it like that so good luck lol

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Hungary is then Magyarország, Finland is Suomi. Egypt is Misr (مصر) For South Korea it's Hanguk, (한국) which refers to the whole peninsula. But remember that North Korea uses a completely different word to refer to the peninsula, Chosun (조건). Which word should I use for the country formerly known in English as Korea?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

South Korea calls itself 대한 (Daehan), and calls the Korean Peninsula 한반도 (Han-bando "Han peninsula") or 한국 (Hanguk "Han country"). North Koreans call North Korea and the Korean Peninsula 조선 (Joseon, also the name of the Joseon dynasty 1392–1897). North Koreans call the Korean Peninsula 조선반도 (Joseon bando "Joseon peninsula").

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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by Anonymous 2 years ago

Ok, but you better start spelling all the other countries correctly then. We can start with Mexico, I mean Mèxico.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

By your logic, for example, we should type中国 not China right? Nope, I will stick with my way.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Gobble Gobble

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'm happy to type Turkiye if that makes people happy, but I'm not doing the umlaut for anything less than a formal document.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yes. This is my priority this month.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I would buy a Türkiye sandwich in Turkey.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

And it is Sonct Petorborg and Moskva and Cuune (So St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Cologne)

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'll be honest...I have no idea how to pronounce that and I'll never remember the spelling so I'm just going to keep calling it Turkey.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I have no idea how to pronounce that so I'll just stick with Turkey. I dont hear people saying Deutschland for Germany, or any other nation for that matter, so why should I care?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Nah.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Me and my friend who grew up in turkey just call it turkey 🤷‍♀️

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Lol idc in English it's turkey that's what I'm gonna call them

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Turkey is trying to be special here, they aren't the only country spent different or said natively in native languages.

by Anonymous 2 years ago