Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany
AAA@feddit.org 1 day agoWhat if I feel that Germans should stop using the word “Stuhl” and start using the word “chair” instead?
If you would be a people of the nation of chair, then yes. But turns out you’re not, because chair isn’t a country and you’re just making a useless comparison.
The only one who’s talking about forcing this on anyone, is you. So instead of getting all agitated over it you could just stop?
Anyway in your opinion Turkey has no right or reason to ask others to use it’s original Türkiye instead?
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
I’ll answer your question if you answer the questions I already asked about Wales, England, Germany and Switzerland. Though my position should be obvious.
Türkiye cannot in any reasonable sense be called “original” either - it’s the word naming the country in Turkish but like all words except those coined recently it has undergone etymological changes to become what it is today. Calling it “original” makes it sound like the Turks came up with a name they still use and the English got it wrong. That’s not what happened.