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Gulf of America just makes more sense. Calling this the "Gulf of Mexico" would be like calling The Black Sea "The Gulf of Turkey".
by thepasswordis 2y ago
Gulf of America just makes more sense. Calling this the "Gulf of Mexico" would be like calling The Black Sea "The Gulf of Turkey".
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoI agree, the coastline is mostly shared between the two. Since you brought up Turkey, they renamed themselves recently. Practically a lot of people just can't keep up every countries nuances and just use the old names. It's fine. It seems like a lot of people still use Bombay over Mumbai too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- thepasswordis 2y agoA funny thing: I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in Mumbai, and there definitely seems to be a significant number of native residents who still call it Bombay. It was to the point where we briefly wondered if this was referring to two different parts of the same city (south of the Sea Link bridge is Bombay, the rest is Mumbai, maybe). Names are complicated! Germany/Deutschland, Holland/The Netherlands etc. Interesting that Wikipedia keeps “Turkey”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey They also keep Gulf of Mexico. As a programmer: localization is a PITA.
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoIndian government tried giving things 'post-colonial' names but not all of them stuck equally. I do think Bengaluru is a slightly cooler name than Bangalore though!
- BuyMyBitcoins 2y agoI just want Istanbul to go back to being called Constantinople.
- appleorchard46 2y agoWhy did it get the works, anyway?
- rat87 2y agoGulf of Mexico is what it has been called so it makes no sense to rename it. Names often dont make sense plus spain and later mexico used to control more territory along the Gulf coatline. Unless you want to piss of one of our most important allies for no reason