Turkey’s greatest national project, little known to the world, was painting their English county name on the ground in letters that can be seen from space
I feel like translating country names is a bit icky, like translating somebody’s name to a local language, feels like cultural erasure… But it seems like a necessity when certain names can’t be written in other alphabets or even pronounced in certain languages.
In this case replacing ü with u is easy, even if the sound isn’t similar it looks similar enough.
Deutschland vs Germany vs Alemania tho, unforgiveable. Yeah it’s pronounced Doichland (kinda, forgive me Germans) but Germany or Alemania are neither similar or sound similar.
España VS Spain is kinda similar, but low key hate that we need to go to the fucking S in drop downs when our country code is ES… Even when the drop down has España, it’s always below Sri Lanka.
If you look at e.g. Germany, it’s Deutschland in German, but others might call it Allemagne, Tyskland, Germania, Niemcy, Saska, …
I very much don’t want to police what others would like to be called, but feel like having your own local name for a country is mostly normal and fine.
I might also not be the biggest fan of the concept of countries, but that’s neither here nor there.
Turkey’s greatest national project, little known to the world, was painting their English county name on the ground in letters that can be seen from space
Well it wasn’t done by the Turks. Because they are pretty adamant that you spell it as Türkiye even in English.
I feel like translating country names is a bit icky, like translating somebody’s name to a local language, feels like cultural erasure… But it seems like a necessity when certain names can’t be written in other alphabets or even pronounced in certain languages.
In this case replacing ü with u is easy, even if the sound isn’t similar it looks similar enough.
Deutschland vs Germany vs Alemania tho, unforgiveable. Yeah it’s pronounced Doichland (kinda, forgive me Germans) but Germany or Alemania are neither similar or sound similar.
España VS Spain is kinda similar, but low key hate that we need to go to the fucking S in drop downs when our country code is ES… Even when the drop down has España, it’s always below Sri Lanka.
If you look at e.g. Germany, it’s Deutschland in German, but others might call it Allemagne, Tyskland, Germania, Niemcy, Saska, …
I very much don’t want to police what others would like to be called, but feel like having your own local name for a country is mostly normal and fine.
I might also not be the biggest fan of the concept of countries, but that’s neither here nor there.
That’s just the president, most Turks don’t really care either way.