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https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Turkiye" would be fine, but that is not the official English name, it's "Türkiye" which makes absolutely no sense. Maybe we should start referring to Japan as 日本 in English instead too /s

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No seriously it seems insane to officially change the English name and make a big stink about it but use a letter that isn’t in the English alphabet? Just skip the umlaut wtf are you doing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Not to mention it's nationalist BS driven by Erdogan as a popularity stunt

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

You can write Türkiye as Tuerkiye if you want to stick to 'pure' English. I mean, Latin.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Calling Japan 日本 in English but pronouncing it Rìběn