Let's Rename Turkey into Türkiye - Because English Isn’t Confusing Enough

[Red Square]

There seems to be a trend of renaming Turkey to Türkiye in English. Really? Then let’s be consistent, comrades - let's also rename Hungary into Magyarország, Ireland into Éireann, Germany into Deutschland, Spain into España, Russia into Rosseeya, Ukraine into Ookrayeena, Finland into Suomi, and so on.

Wouldn't it be fun to confuse native English speakers even further by making English sound like Google Translate with an identity crisis? Then we can take them with bare hands. 

Of course, Trump can always retaliate and demand that the people of Türkiye pronounce the USA as "United States of ‘Murica."

And, in the spirit of linguistic justice, let’s insist that everyone in the world pronounce ‘Worcestershire’ correctly on the first try.

[Colonel Obyezyana]

There seems to be a trend of renaming Turkey to Türkiye in English. Really? Then let’s be consistent, comrades - let's also rename Hungary into Magyarország, Ireland into Éireann, Germany into Deutschland, Spain into España, Russia into Rosseeya, Ukraine into Ookrayeena, Finland into Suomi, and so on.

Wouldn't it be fun to confuse native English speakers even further by making English sound like Google Translate with an identity crisis? Then we can take them with bare hands. 

Of course, Trump can always retaliate and demand that the people of Türkiye pronounce the USA as "United States of ‘Murica."

And, in the spirit of linguistic justice, let’s insist that everyone in the world pronounce ‘Worcestershire’ correctly on the first try.

This has bothered me for decades, or at least since the pearl-clutching cultural-respect knee-benders changed Peking to Beijing, Ivory Coast to Cǒte d'Ivoire and Bombay to Mumbai. And for what?  To be more accurate? To be less Euro-Centric? Or to show humility by prostrating ourselves before the non-English speaking world by changing our English-language maps?

It goes further. How many ways are there now to spell Moammar Khaddafi's name? AP changed it at least three times as more and still more new transliterations emerged. What's next? Will we have to learn to pronounce Namibian place names in the Kung-San click language to read a map?

And who's there to enforce these changes? Nobody. Every time I hear of a new change I can only think we're being jerked around by anti-colonialists who want to see how far they can go at making us suckers.

Just as King Arthur reacted when The Knights Who Say Ni told him to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring, we should stop playing along and walk away.

This is why I don't spell "Zelensky" with two Ys: it may be a more precise transliteration but, like all of the above, the arcane nit-picking of linguists is of no consequence to the American general public who want to read an English-language map without having to get a graduate degree in foreign language phonology.

P.S.

And don't get me started on Welsh place names: they should all be chopped off after six letters or be reduced to acronyms or numbers.

P.P.S.

We should all take a lesson from the WWI British soldiers who published The Wipers Times. They started their satirical "newspaper" while in Ypres, Belgium and couldn't be bothered with a practically unpronounceable "The Ypres Times," so they changed Ypres to Wipers.
 

[Ellsworth Toohey]

It's still Burma as far as I'm concerned.

[Panem Et Circenses]

I'm going to insist everyone start spelling my name "Panum Ett Cirkenses" from now on.
If you don't then you, Sir, are an insensitive bigot.  I really wish Latin had umlauts or something, those just look cool.

Also, "Thuh Peeples Kyoob" might be a change to consider, I feel it's more culturally aware.

[Ivan the Stakhanovets]

... pronounce ‘Worcestershire’ correctly on the first try."

Wash-yer-Sister.

No?

[jackalopelipsky]

Also, "Thuh Peeples Kyoob" might be a change to consider, I feel it's more culturally aware.

Wait…so you’re saying TPC is NOT pronounced this way? Dhaaaammm…

[Colonel Obyezyana]

Also, "Thuh Peeples Kyoob" might be a change to consider, I feel it's more culturally aware.

Hmmm...  Which culture and aware of what?

Or is "culturally aware" synonymous with "in lockstep with the groupthink of socialist apologist virtue-signalers"?
 

[Panem Et Circenses]

Also, "Thuh Peeples Kyoob" might be a change to consider, I feel it's more culturally aware.

Hmmm...  Which culture and aware of what?
Or is "culturally aware" synonymous with "in lockstep with the groupthink of socialist apologist virtue-signalers"?

Does it matter?  If you insist, I'll find a tribe or something that could be offended.  There are thousands to pick from.
 

[Colonel Obyezyana]

... pronounce ‘Worcestershire’ correctly on the first try."

Wash-yer-Sister.

No?

My mom pronounced it WOOSS-tuh-shuh (she was from Massa-CHEW-sets).
 

[Red Salmon]

Most Equally Esteemed Comrades,

I always thought it was pronounced “Ketchup”.  

What?

Red Salmon

[Colonel Obyezyana]

Also, "Thuh Peeples Kyoob" might be a change to consider, I feel it's more culturally aware.

Hmmm...  Which culture and aware of what?
Or is "culturally aware" synonymous with "in lockstep with the groupthink of socialist apologist virtue-signalers"?

Does it matter?  If you insist, I'll find a tribe or something that could be offended.  There are thousands to pick from.

Nah. Just a rhetorical question. Y'know—the kind that turns leftards into semantical contortionists.
 

[Panem Et Circenses]

Also, "Thuh Peeples Kyoob" might be a change to consider, I feel it's more culturally aware.

Hmmm...  Which culture and aware of what?
Or is "culturally aware" synonymous with "in lockstep with the groupthink of socialist apologist virtue-signalers"?

Does it matter?  If you insist, I'll find a tribe or something that could be offended.  There are thousands to pick from.

Nah. Just a rhetorical question. Y'know—the kind that turns leftards into semantical contortionists.

 

[jackalopelipsky]

Also, "Thuh Peeples Kyoob" might be a change to consider, I feel it's more culturally aware.

Hmmm...  Which culture and aware of what?



Or is "culturally aware" synonymous with "in lockstep with the groupthink of socialist apologist virtue-signalers"?
 

Yeah, it is, Colonel O. This socialist apologist virtue signaler is very culturally aware of 10 bearded burly guys are all about as they sit at a table enjoying their sammiches.



What???

[Colonel Obyezyana]

Yeah, it is, Colonel O. This socialist apologist virtue signaler is very culturally aware of 10 bearded burly guys are all about as they sit at a table enjoying their sammiches.

What???

He's frightened because he feels guilty.

He's feels guilty because he knows he's not a woman yet he's lying about it.

He fears that outside of the dubious privacy of his car or apartment, people may not affirm his delusion, and that lack of affirmation forces him to face the fact that he's lying and that everyone can see it.







 

[jackalopelipsky]

Yeah, it is, Colonel O. This socialist apologist virtue signaler is very culturally aware of 10 bearded burly guys are all about as they sit at a table enjoying their sammiches.

What???

He's frightened because he feels guilty.

He's feels guilty because he knows he's not a woman yet he's lying about it.

He fears that outside of the dubious privacy of his car or apartment, people may not affirm his delusion, and that lack of affirmation forces him to face the fact that he's lying and that everyone can see it.

 

Either that, or he can’t pronounce Worcestershire. Wonder if those burly guys enjoyed their Türkiye Club sammiches?

[Colonel Obyezyana]

Yeah, it is, Colonel O. This socialist apologist virtue signaler is very culturally aware of 10 bearded burly guys are all about as they sit at a table enjoying their sammiches.

What???

He's frightened because he feels guilty.

He's feels guilty because he knows he's not a woman yet he's lying about it.

He fears that outside of the dubious privacy of his car or apartment, people may not affirm his delusion, and that lack of affirmation forces him to face the fact that he's lying and that everyone can see it.

Either that, or he can’t pronounce Worcestershire.

For the Alphabet Mafia, "Safe Spaces" are any spaces where gender affirmation is assured.

Anyplace where gender affirmation is not assured poses a risk that one may be reminded that he's lying about his real identity. Lying to himself and everybody else. That causes guilt and the guilt deflates the delusional fantasy. And without the fantasy, reality surges forth.

Welcome to reality.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/0 ... ed-attire/

Here's another reminder: this thread is about language and name changing and it's being side-tracked severely, so no more off-topic tangents, please.

 

[Ellsworth Toohey]

It's still Burma Shave to me.

[Colonel Obyezyana]

It's still Burma Shave to me.

They can't take that from us: simple and easy to pronounce.

Even if there were a million "Myanmar Shave" billboards on highways from coast to coast, Americans would never get past the word, "Myanmar" to read the rest of the the signs. 
 

[Ellsworth Toohey]

It's still Burma Shave to me.

They can't take that from us: simple and easy to pronounce.

Even if there were a million "Myanmar Shave" billboards on highways from coast to coast, Americans would never get past the word, "Myanmar" to read the rest of the the signs. 

Not without a lot of cars in ditches.

It's even scarier when you spell it out in Burmese Myanmarese.  And the capital  may as well be spelled Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
 

[jackalopelipsky]

Here's another reminder: this thread is about language and name changing and it's being side-tracked severely, so no more off-topic tangents, please.

Yes! Focus, hare brain, focus. Türkiye Is trying to happen because English is weak, comrades. WEAK. If English was perceived as strong, Türkiye wouldn’t be acting out.

How is English weak?

Trump releases transcript of his phone calls with foreign Potentates- in English- and the English speaking media tells us these phone calls are incorrect. They tell us, in English, these phone calls were not perfect, but were in fact completely wrong. In English, too!

Too confusing. Into this manufactured crisis about the strength of English language Türkiye makes its move. While off topic, the man speaking English in his video, did not convey the information he thought he was stating. Colonel Obyezyana understood the man’s use of weak English language perfectly. Colonel Obyezyana was not confused by the use of weak English.

Red Square knows Türkiye is attempting to stop, or at least inhibit, TPC’s demand that Pangea be united to stop continental drift on all English speaking maps. Türkiye Is hijacking TPC’s demand through English language dyslexia into Pangea Untie.

This is happening because English is weak…and confusing.

The jackalope hopes this suffices as evidence to concede to Red Square’s original point.

[Colonel Obyezyana]

It's still Burma Shave to me.

Even if there were a million "Myanmar Shave" billboards on highways from coast to coast, Americans would never get past the word, "Myanmar" to read the rest of the the signs. 

Not without a lot of cars in ditches.

"My An Mar?" "Myan Mar?" "M'yan Mar?" Puzzled drivers would have been crashing all along Route 66.