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A country changes it's name

it will take a few years before people get used to it, but it will happen. As long as they're not expecting the dots over the e on anything other than diplomatic correspondence. It was interesting they mentioned Czechia. I heard about that change a few years ago, but then nothing more. I think Czech Republic just sounds better, the cadence. Turkiye and Turkey, it's just transliteration. We all got used to Wade-Giles largely being replaced by Pinyin, goodbye Peking, hello Beijing. It was fine. Goodbye Canton hello Guangzhou. ok, not always so easy.
 
XCV330 said:
it will take a few years before people get used to it, but it will happen. As long as they're not expecting the dots over the e on anything other than diplomatic correspondence. It was interesting they mentioned Czechia. I heard about that change a few years ago, but then nothing more. I think Czech Republic just sounds better, the cadence. Turkiye and Turkey, it's just transliteration. We all got used to Wade-Giles largely being replaced by Pinyin, goodbye Peking, hello Beijing. It was fine. Goodbye Canton hello Guangzhou. ok, not always so easy.
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The funny thing is that the bird, turkey, is called Hindi by the Turks. That is the short form name of Hindistan, their name for india.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
What's the point? Everybody not from Turkey is still gonna call it Turkey.
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And continue to spell it that way, though if a were cynic all of this sounds like a bit of distraction to take the news off of other things which are happening. President Erdogan if news reports ocer the last months/years are to believed he is a bit of an Authoratarian
 
I'm still kind of miffed that Persia changed its name to Iran back in 1935. Hell, everybody had heard of Persia. The ancient Persian Empire was arguably the world's first superstate. The people are still called Persians. (Living in Los Angeles, I know a lot of Persian Jews!)
 
I understand why they want to change their name. Sharing the same name with a bird, that people eat, must lead to embarrassing jokes at the international stage for their diplomats.

Maybe the next name change will be to the country called Hungary. There is alot of jokes in there as well.
 
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EmoBorg said:
I understand why they want to change their name. Sharing the same name with a bird, that people eat, must lead to embarrassing jokes at the international stage for their diplomats.

Maybe the next name change will be to the country called Hungary. There is alot of jokes in there as well.
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They're both over 50 years too late to avoid those.
 
MacLeod said:
And continue to spell it that way, though if a were cynic all of this sounds like a bit of distraction to take the news off of other things which are happening. President Erdogan if news reports ocer the last months/years are to believed he is a bit of an Authoratarian
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That's an understatement.

Erdogan is just this side of a dictator...
 
As I understand the news article, the country doesn't really change its name. Only its official name designation in English as registered by the UN - probably to make it sound closer to what they name their country themselves(and to avoid the association with the bird, no doubt).

As for the ü possibly being a problem, I would expect there to be ways around that using only standard characters. For example the German ü also can be written as ue. Something similar might be possible in Turkish (I don't know that language).
 
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