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gacgacgacyesterday at 7:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Has Germany said they should be called Deutschland by English speakers?


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IncreasePostsyesterday at 7:48 PM

Is it a right of any nation to assert what other nations call it? Can America ask China to stop calling them 美国 (Měiguó) and call them the USA?

The problem with the turkey rebranding is that it was a mere orthographic update, but it is using orthography that is very non standard(whatever that means for English), including using a diacritic rarely seen in English.

I could get behind it more if they completely changed the name, like a when Swaziland switched to eswatini. But for now, you can pry turkey from my cold dead hands