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You must be an American? Only Americans act like they get to define what the rest of the world calls places. It’s Gulf of Mexico. Only a country of idiots would call it gulf of America.

Its so funny to see this comment considering the dozens of geogrphic features around the world where countries have wildly different names for them.

Do you think Korea refers to the Sea of Japan by that name?

Do you see anyone making Koreans call it Sea of Japan? Americans can call it whatever they want as long as Americans never try to lecture others what it is called. Deal?

Uhh yes actually. There is an entire geopolitical issue surrounding this that has gone for decades.

So, you learn about geopolitical politics before posting, deal?

I have renamed the bird Türkiye . It was called Turkey in reference to the country, I think it’s fair to rename the bird too.

Oops, someone forgot languages evolve! Otherwise you must use Turkye, one of the Middle English spellings.

The United Nations agreed to their request, it’s a minor thing to let people spell it the way that was requested. You don’t have to, but others can. Languages evolve.

They evolve and they don’t. People call things whatever they want. How is it going for X/Twitter?

Twitter/X is a company, it calls itself whatever it wants, and is likely registered somewhere under a specific name. Okay, people don’t call it X, the same way people pronounce IKEA weirdly or refer to vacuums as hoovers.

Language is a malleable, artificial construct. What’s your point? That some people are stuck in their ways? Because the comment I was responding to was appalled that someone dares use the modern spelling for a country.

Wow it's pretty arrogant to tell someone how to spell their own country's name.

It's pretty arrogant for a foreigner to tell me how to spell his county name in my own language, which doesn't even have those letters in an alphabet. All while adding -stan suffix to my country name in their language.

In short, it's Turkey.

The name "Turkey" has been in the English language for many centuries. It's a bit of a tall order to suddenly demand that everyone start using a different name for the country. Imagine if England suddenly demanded that everyone call them Aengelande.

The government decided to do this because they're embarrassed that a bird has the same name as the country. Ironically, the bird is named after the country.

Funnily enough, on the HN zeal to prove you wrong about this, posters who dont know know about this topic dont actually realize Turkey dont give a damn about the Anglicanized name outside diplomatic context

Nice thing is we can render names in English however we want too!

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