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Parent comment was making a joke about the political situation between Armenia and Turkey.
by delibes 8mo ago
Parent comment was making a joke about the political situation between Armenia and Turkey.
- seydor 8mo agoWhich is now called Turkiye
- jojobas 8mo agoIt was always called Turkiye in Turkish. I promise to use it in English as soon as Germany becomes Deutschland and Japan becomes Nippon.
- xeckr 8mo agoI know that this was tongue-in-cheek, but I could imagine living in a world where naming countries as they name themselves is the dominant linguistic convention. Why not call Japan Nippon in a sentence.
- jojobas 8mo agoI could imagine living in a world where there are 3 sexes and everyone walks on ceilings. You're free to call Japan Nippon as long as you're fine with people raising eyebrows, sometimes not understanding what you mean, or deciding you're a pretentious twit. The request that we use a character that doesn't even exist in the English alphabet (ü) is particularly ludicrous.
- xeckr 8mo agoIf there is a mechanism by which the English language can lose letters over time (such as þ or æ), why wouldn't there be one by which it gains it? It would make even more sense, after all we lose letters because we write those sounds using other letters or letter combinations, however the "ü" in "Türkiye" doesn't have an analogue in the existing alphabet.
- jojobas 8mo agoI don't know how exactly that works, but definitely not by fiat from another country.
- qubex 8mo agoI briefly considered that but I couldn’t bring myself to countenance that somebody would make light of a bona fide ethnic cleansing.
- klipt 8mo agoEthnic cleansing is what Azerbaijan recently did to ethnic Armenian citizens of Azerbaijan (expelling them and stealing their homes when they fled to Armenia). What Turkey did was straight up genocide (forcibly marching them through the desert where many died)
- qubex 8mo agoThat’s a great example of “whataboutism”.
- pessimizer 8mo agoOnly if you didn't read it, and just assign random opinions that you don't like to people who seem to disagree with your characterizations of things. Extremely twitter-brained. No, saying that the Armenian genocide wasn't just "ethnic cleansing" isn't "a great example of whataboutism."
- slybot 8mo agoWell then same goes for saying, there was no genocide.
- slybot 8mo agohttps://youtu.be/Rr9zXuG0-c0?si=O14GnPdhFXWKeMUm https://youtu.be/Rr9zXuG0-c0?si=O14GnPdhFXWKeMUm
- immibis 8mo agoBoth of those are genocide, and both of those are ethnic cleansing, and what's the relevance of the other one and why did you even bring it up?
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