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re: When did the country of Turkey change its spelling?
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:26 am to Deep Purple Haze
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:26 am to Deep Purple Haze
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Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:29 am to Rouge
The Czech Republic is now “Czechia”
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:30 am to Hangit
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Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:45 am to UKWildcats
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Because that is how it is spelled in Turkish. Like Spain is España.
True, but why are we all of a sudden starting to insist on this spelling in English?
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:45 am to moutard
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Looks like they did in 2022
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government hopes the rebranding will give a boost to the economy as visitors start to return in large numbers after two pandemic-depressed tourist seasons. Some also wish to dissociate the country's name from the bird that traditionally appears on American dining tables at Thanksgiving and from the slang definition of a turkey as something that doesn't work or is foolish.
LINK
Interesting.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:48 am to Hangover Haven
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When did they start pronouncing it "Keev" instead of "Kiev" ?
“Key-if”
Posted on 1/12/24 at 10:12 am to Hangover Haven
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When did they start pronouncing it "Keev" instead of "Kiev" ?
When they actually became a talking point in the media.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 11:10 am to Python
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Why are there carrots in the gumbo?
That's a soup not a gumbo.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 11:22 am to Rouge
I bowled a turkiye the other night. That’s 3 strikes in a row.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 11:39 am to Hangover Haven
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When did they start pronouncing it "Keev" instead of "Kiev" ?
The Ukrainians made that up to try and show the world that they're not actually Russians. But everyone knows they're the same group of people and the difference between the Russian and Ukrainian languages are extremely small.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 11:50 am to Rouge
Istanbul was Constantinople.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:48 pm to Ace Midnight
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Just like Russia looks like Puccnr (in Cyrillic).
No it doesn't.
You're being technical because he can't type a backwards N or R?
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:53 pm to Rouge
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:55 pm to Mo Jeaux
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Some also wish to dissociate the country's name from the bird that traditionally appears on American dining tables at Thanksgiving and from the slang definition of a turkey as something that doesn't work or is foolish.
Can someone let Apple know so they stop capitalizing the word "turkey" every time that I type it?
Posted on 1/12/24 at 1:11 pm to BZ504
I drink Wild Türkiye.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 1:39 pm to thefodgather
ETA - TD doesnt like cyrillic characters haha
This post was edited on 1/12/24 at 1:40 pm
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:10 pm to thefodgather
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You're being technical because he can't type a backwards N or R?
Partially - he also fricked up the "o" (it is unstressed, similar to the short "o" sound in English) which is the same in Western/Latin and Cyrillic.
(Translates to: Russia - and is feminine in gender.)
Now, if he is not a speaker, he might be conflating the language with the nation, but the first vowel in "Russian" in Cyrillic is an "oo" sound, which looks like an English "y".
(The large blue title words translate to: Russian language - and is masculine in gender).
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:32 pm to Ace Midnight
Apparently their text book quality has improved over the old days of the Soviet Union. We used the "Russian for Everybody" textbook, reader, and workbooks for the Russian language courses at LSU in the 80s. They were printed in the Soviet Union and used some of the worst paper you could imagine. It was somewhere in quality between newspaper and gas station toilet paper.
This post was edited on 1/12/24 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 1/12/24 at 3:23 pm to Deep Purple Haze
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turkiye gumbo
That shite is not gumbo
Posted on 1/13/24 at 2:20 am to Hangit
The Cape Verde islands was changed to the Cabo Verde islands.
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