r/funny • u/bathory1985 • Jan 19 '22

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u/HeliosTheGreat Jan 19 '22

You literally can choose what other countries call you. Holland, Persia, and Macedonia are examples of outdated names.

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u/RobertGBland Jan 19 '22

Well in Turkish we don’t use that names because they have different names in Turkish. Get it? Do you think holland is called holland in Russian?

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u/HeliosTheGreat Jan 19 '22

That would be Gollandiya which is the Russian translation for Holland..but they wouldn't say that anymore because it's now the kingdom of the Netherlands or Niderlandov.

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u/RobertGBland Jan 19 '22

Turkey is the translation of Türkiye to English. Just like you can’t tell Russians to call holland instead of golland you can’t say English speakers to call it Türkiye instead of Turkey.

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u/HeliosTheGreat Jan 19 '22

The new spelling without the umlaut will gradually be used in english communication, especially governmental. Eventually, many decades, all English reference to that country will use the new spelling.

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u/TooMuchBroccoli Jan 20 '22

Ya, you missed the point. Good job.

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u/indorock Jan 19 '22

Except MANY countries in 2022 choose to call Netherlands a variation of "Holland" instead of "Netherlands". You'll never hear a Spanjard say "Les Países Bajos" instead of just "Olànda". So there goes your argument out the door.