off topic, but is Türkiye the new english spelling for Turkey ?
Some Turks I know seem to think this whole thing was mostly cooked up as a distraction from other issues that have come up or worsened under Erdoğan's leadership.
[0] https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/turkey/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102596510/turkey-changes-nam...
In any event, if the Turkish government wants me to stop using "Turkey" I'm more than happy to call it Anatolia instead.
No, part of the rationale for the change is to reflect the different pronunciation (Türkiye) has three syllables
> but as a native English speaker I don’t even know what the umlaut does to the sound of the u.
While there is a change to the first vowel sound, and I think an even more subtle change to the second, the biggest difference is the existence of the third syllable, which is pretty evident from the spelling, even to most native English speakers.
I don't say Spain in Spanish i.e. "Espanya" (phonetically) I just say Spain.
That works on Windows at least, don't know about other systems.
And if you are using Windows with, say, US-English QWERTY as your default keyboard layout, its easy to add US-International and switch between them with ctrl-shift; they have the same layout (so your keycaps are still write), but some of the punctuation becomes dead keys that can function either for the punctuation or diacriticals depending on the following keypress.
Because the relationship between the punctuation and the diacriticals they work for is mostly visually intuitive, I find it a lot easier than memorizing Alt-key codes. Especially when using keyboards that don’t have a separate numeric keyboard in the first place like small laptops, and big laptops with relatively powerful dGPUs (the former because of total space available, the latter because they use more space for venting).
possibly a populist move by erdogan, depending on who you ask.
It's fairly patchy ultimately.
Beijing/Peking, Mumbai/Bombay, Kyiv/Kiev, Czechia/Czech Republic.
Foods seem unaffected funnily enough Peking Duck, Bombay Mix, Chicken Kiev.
Right click > Add to dictionary
I don't adhere to it. It is old-fashioned, even a bit archaic. But it is still the preferred spelling in some style guides, and it is still used in some publications.
So “deer” has two e’s but no umlaut because they make the same sound but “coördinate” has the umlaut since the second o is a new sound.
I personally like them and wish they would come back if only as a small push back against the horrific ambiguity that is the English language
That's a somewhat naïve take.
...then again, even some Germans are using the diaeresis for this purpose, such as this guy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Ho%C3%ABcker - and you can't blame him, because usually "oe" is a transliteration of "ö", and then his name would mean "hump" (as in camel's hump).
The only place I've ever seen the diaeresis used like that is in the New Yorker.
But that's the only not-foreign not-name word from the list I've seen written with the ¨ in Britain. I have see Chloë and Zoë written with it too.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_spelle...
If a friend asked me to refer to them with a different name, I'd sure look like a jerk if I made a point to not do so, even though I know it's their preference. Just the same, I try to remember that the country formerly spelled Turkey is now spelled Türkiye.
Perhaps someday they'll say it doesn't matter, or they prefer the old way. Today isn't that day yet.
Exonyms have been a thing for longer than I can remember....
When I have friends like that (well, my brother too), I make a point of typing it the way it's supposed to be written, out of courtesy and fun and proudness, like I'm clever enough to type any character I want with my keyboard, because I master it and I master other languages. The day I'll learn how to type Chinese characters fluently, I'll be so happy ! Not to boast, but it will mean I unlocked a whole new world!
if you want to learn to use endonyms for countries cool! but most people aren't interested in that level of effort for the whole world. there are ten thousand other things that occupy their minds, every one jockeying for a spot, and this being a passion of yours doesn't change that.
idk why you think there should be any different rules from this, except the general sense of anti-Americanism that seems to pervade this discussion.
Now, there is nothing wrong with calling it Türkiye in your own everyday speech, but it is not any kind of sign of good manners - it's simply a matter of personal taste. You'd still probably call their language "Turkish", while they call it "Türkçe", and the people living there "Turks" or "Turkish people", when they call themselves "Türkler", and even if you didn't you'd probably use your own grammar to conjugate these words as necessary etc.
also: i will under no circumstances use a name that my keyboard cannot type with standard American english. no one besides the new yorker uses an umlaut in our language.