I am old enough to remember when it was called Turkey.
7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
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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.
Names of places do certainly change, but that does not dictate how those names are spelled/represented in other languages. Now, you or anyone else can certainly spell it "Türkiye" instead of "Turkey", but a) you risk confusing people (which you may or may not care about), and b) typing "ü" is awkward on many (most? all?) English-layout keyboards. I suppose you could also spell it "Turkiye", which I suppose is closer…
I don't think this is about umlauts. Like you said, it is a name. I'm from Turkey and my name is spelled Doğuhan, but as I was immigrating to the US (before Unicode was commonly used) it became Doguhan. A lot of native English speakers struggle with it, almost no one pronounces it right, they misspell even after seeing it written in front of their faces.
I did play around with the idea of going by Doug during college, but then I decided that I wanted to retain my unique identity. It took years for some of my friends to stop calling me Doug, but they did change.
It'll be okay, people will adapt, umlauts or none. Otherwise, people will do what they'll do. Some idiots still refer to Istanbul (correct spelling İstanbul btw) as Constantinople. C'est la vie
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This one really came as a surprise, and since people often only act when there's a precedent, sadly the building collapsed. They will learn from this, like the Japanese did.
No, they won't, unfortunately. Turkey is in the fault lines and there was a 7.6 earthquake in 1999. A lot has been said but not much have been done. Just a couple of years ago, there was "amnesty" for buildings. My father in-law was bragging how his building, which did not have any inspection or permits during the construction, has gotten amnesty for a small fee and he could sell flats to others now..
https://twitter.com/nblaser18/status/1622610294471024640
Talks of another amnesty days before this earthquake.
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#184This guy somehow predicted it? https://twitter.com/hogrbe/status/1621479563720118273?t=uZuu... Lucky or good?
That's not a prediction that can be evaluated. For example, I could say "there will be a 7+ magnitude quake somewhere in the Pacific Rim tomorrow" and if I publish the same prediction every day it won't be long until my prediction is true. I might even be right the very first time. A real prediction should include exact time period, magnitude, and geographic area. And every prediction made must be documented. This le…
Are some of you scientists? I was searching for how trustable this person is. This man claimed to be a scientist have catched attention of many Turkish twitter user and they've started to fallowing him. And some news sites shared this man as a Dutch scientist who predicted earthquake 2 days ago. Like there isn't enough misinformation about earthquakes.
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Why did the buildings collapse? They don't have a build code for seismic-dangerous zones? Or the possibility of this earthquake was never predicted?
It’s pretty hard to build for a 7.8. That’s ridiculously strong, similar to SF 1908 which pretty much destroyed the entire city..
1906*
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
>There are dozens of instances of names of places being changed due to what the local population wants it to be called. Sorry, no, not outside a country, when dealing with foreign languages. Every language has different names for other countries, and they're frequently quite different from each other. Countries have no way of forcing foreign languages to adopt any particular name in those languages.
> Sorry, no, not outside a country, when dealing with foreign languages.
Are you saying there's no instances where a country has "rebranded" (for want of a better term) its own name and people outside that country have gone along with it?
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#189I have never seen an earthquake covering such a wide area. I confirm collapsing buildings in at least 5 cities. There is a big chaos on social media as well - many people asking for help since they are stuck under debris. What a disaster!
I accidentally saw one of these videos on Twitter. As a human, seeing a young person suffering, frightened and calling for help in real time when I can do nothing felt disgustingly voyeuristic. Perhaps humans who have never met and will likely never meet were never meant to connect in this way? The situation is apparently quite grim with the broad scale of devastation. I hope technology can help guide and focus resou…
I saw this too, trapped under debris with only their cellphone flashlight and dwindling supply of oxygen. So gut wrenching and horrifying to see, still can’t stop thinking if it was me in that situation. I hope they make it out alive.