7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye • Hacker News Board

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by mlindner » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 11:03 AM UTC

duluca wrote: post #116

midoridensha wrote: post #92

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"Turkey" is the correct spelling in English. The Turkish government doesn't get to dictate what their country is called in other languages.

Lol. Yes they do. There are dozens of instances of names of places being changed due to what the local population wants it to be called. Putting politics aside, disambiguating from the bird turkey is smart from a marketing and tourism sense.

Türkiye is not representable in English so it will never be used for in any article written in English that's not being written for some diplomatic purpose.

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by mlindner » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 11:04 AM UTC

kyriakos wrote: post #88

A nuclear power plant is being constructed near this area. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkuyu_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Which isn't a concern as nuclear power plants are almost always designed to be resistant to earthquakes, even in non-earthquake prone areas.

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by mlindner » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 11:08 AM UTC

egorfine wrote: post #141

midoridensha wrote: post #92

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"Turkey" is the correct spelling in English. The Turkish government doesn't get to dictate what their country is called in other languages.

As a Ukrainian I can feel the pain. Some people in the government renamed the english spelling of my city into an unreadable alphabet soup. Not only they strongly insist the whole world to spell it this way, they also deem everyone who doesn't like it a traitor. So, spelling matters. A lot. Unfortunately.

I'm not sure how this is related to this case? Isn't there still a cyrillic spelling of your city? Did they change that one as well? I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the English spelling to match the cyrillic one. Is it the same?

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by mlindner » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 11:11 AM UTC

pyuser583 wrote: post #51

Oh wow, that’s terrible. My spellchecker needs to be updated because it doesn’t want me writing “Turkiye.”

Turkey is the common spelling in English so no need for an update. That's not going to be changing any time soon.

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by poulpy123 » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 11:13 AM UTC

anonu wrote: post #33

This guy somehow predicted it? https://twitter.com/hogrbe/status/1621479563720118273?t=uZuu... Lucky or good?

Neither. It's a region with strong seismic activity, a string earthquake was just a question of time and he didn't gave a time schedule

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by kyriakos » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 11:17 AM UTC

mlindner wrote: post #152

kyriakos wrote: post #88

A nuclear power plant is being constructed near this area. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkuyu_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Which isn't a concern as nuclear power plants are almost always designed to be resistant to earthquakes, even in non-earthquake prone areas.

Russian nuclear plant in Turkish earthquake zone sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by Gibbon1 » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 11:19 AM UTC

arp242 wrote: post #147

Gibbon1 wrote: post #143

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> it's supposed to be Türkiye, not Turkiye. English doesn't have umlauts

It's not uncommon to have various diacritics in loanwords; e.g. über, führer, señor, façade, crème brûlée, or proper names such as Schrödinger, Gödel. All of these can be spelled without the diacritic too, but also with it.

Native English speaker have literally no idea what umlauts means. And the connection between how a word is spoken vs how it's spelled is tenuous indeed. So really there isn't any point.

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by poulpy123 » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 11:20 AM UTC

personjerry wrote: post #60

earthboundkid wrote: post #56

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And we should ignore that because we speak English and they don’t.

The word isn't an English word... Do you call Beijing "Peking" as well? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Beijing

I called it Pékin for years and as far as I know the pronunciation is closer to the Chinese name than Beijing

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by singularity2001 » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 11:48 AM UTC

sedatk wrote: post #3

It was followed by another 6.7 which is already significant by itself. Devastating news.

And by a strong 7.5 at 10:24 UTC!

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by ailun » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 12:20 PM UTC

poulpy123 wrote: post #158

personjerry wrote: post #60

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The word isn't an English word... Do you call Beijing "Peking" as well? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Beijing

I called it Pékin for years and as far as I know the pronunciation is closer to the Chinese name than Beijing

It’s not. Beijing is pretty accurate as most English speakers say it (except for the tones), although I often hear people do really weird things with the j. The b and j sounds in Mandarin are not the same as in English, but they are closer than p or k to my ear.