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 Anonymous1 year ago
You successfully changed my opinion, good day sir.
by Anonymous1 year ago
It's lady, but you're most welcome :)
by Anonymous1 year ago
*tips fedora, "m'lady"
by Anonymous1 year ago
"m'Turkey"
by Anonymous1 year ago
Plus there's no god damned umlats in English.
by Anonymous1 year ago
>Deutschland, not Germany
I look forward to Deutschland becoming uber alles again in the whole world.
"Make Deutschland Uber Alles Again" /s
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
Turkish people don't call the Philippines the Tagalog name (Pilipinas), they call it Filipinler. The Turkish should follow their logic.
by Anonymous1 year ago
I highly doubt people are going to start saying italia, España, Rossiya, or Deutschland.
Do you do this?
by Anonymous1 year ago
Is India really Hindustan? That sounds kinda racist honestly, like if someone called Iraq Islamostan.
by Anonymous1 year ago
How would either of those be racist?
by Anonymous1 year ago
Racist may be the wrong word but it just seems really odd to me.
by Anonymous1 year ago
So you're saying it's racist to call Germany Duetschland?
by Anonymous1 year ago
Stan means land. It is called Hindustan, land of the Hindus. Kazakhstan, land of the Kazakhs etc
by Anonymous1 year ago
Indians use the name Bharat more often than Hindustan.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Italy woke up was Hungary ate Turkey slipped on Greece and broke China.
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
Or you know China? That's not Chinese for China.
by Anonymous1 year ago
It's leviosa, not leviossahh
by Anonymous1 year ago
Except apparently levioso now too
by Anonymous1 year ago
I prefer chicken myself
by Anonymous1 year ago
It's chïckyen*
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
Bro I cant evenn spel in Engilsh.
by Anonymous1 year ago
My man needs to get hooked on phonics
by Anonymous1 year ago
I dont care
by Anonymous1 year ago
Only if the Turks recognize their part in the Armenian genocide.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Not in English. Besides, why give satisfaction to such a terrible government.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Yeah, whatever. Call me when you acknowledge the Armenian genocide.
by Anonymous1 year ago
It's "regional conflict" not "we wanted to commit ethnic cleansing"
by Anonymous1 year ago
Invited for tea
by Anonymous1 year ago
Oh god what's in the tea
by Anonymous1 year ago
We could ask the Armenians, I heard they like bullets in their tea apparently
by Anonymous1 year ago
The *ongoing* Armenian genocide.
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
How much you wanna bet the Turkish don't call foreign countries by their natives names, but by Turkish names?
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
…..no..
by Anonymous1 year ago
It's what I can easily type. People.focusing on the petty instead of helping are the ignorant ones.
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
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by Anonymous1 year ago
Ok, but you better start spelling all the other countries correctly then. We can start with Mexico, I mean Mèxico.
by Anonymous1 year ago
By your logic, for example, we should type中国 not China right? Nope, I will stick with my way.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Gobble Gobble
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
Yes. This is my priority this month.
by Anonymous1 year ago
I would buy a Türkiye sandwich in Turkey.
by Anonymous1 year ago
And it is Sonct Petorborg and Moskva and Cuune (So St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Cologne)
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
Nah.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Me and my friend who grew up in turkey just call it turkey 🤷♀️
by Anonymous1 year ago
Lol idc in English it's turkey that's what I'm gonna call them
by Anonymous1 year ago
Turkey is trying to be special here, they aren't the only country spent different or said natively in native languages.
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