Some related research (in mice) from the news this morning (mainly in the last couple of sections of the article) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg7p8n9g2klo
How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
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Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Germany's official name is Bundesrepublik Deutschland
And yet you write "Germany", not "germany".
Well, you don't know if they do, or if they were just capitalising the start of their sentence while not feeing that the word needs a capital letter in and of itself.
(But yeah, personally I would capitalised both counties regardless of spelling/which name used.)
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#193Why is "turkey" lowercased? For that matter the country's official name is Türkiye as of 2022.
I won't be calling Turkey Türkiye anymore than I would call China Zhōngguó.
They don't have any authority to manage other people's languages.
The lack of capitalization is an obvious error, though. Before clicking, I wondered if some accidental discovery in turkeys (as birds) resulted in better human hair growth.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's talk turkey, does it really matter?
Yes? The country is named Türkiye, we should use that name? The etymology here is interesting and has a looooong history. The country has officially been named Türkiye for over a century.
I will call them Turkiye when they call Greece Hellas, Germany Deutschland and China Zhongguo in Turkish.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes? The country is named Türkiye, we should use that name? The etymology here is interesting and has a looooong history. The country has officially been named Türkiye for over a century.
I will call them Turkiye when they call Greece Hellas, Germany Deutschland and China Zhongguo in Turkish.
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Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#196Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#197I did it a few years ago when I was living in Istanbul. One evening, a friend of mine wouldn't shut up about the procedure. I ended up booking it almost on a whim, mostly just to prove him wrong. I did the transplant the next day. In the end, I was very happy with the results. I think it cost around 1500$. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/olalonde/olalonde.github.c...
I've never done it despite being fully bald by age 25, as going back into work with a head of hair would cause more conversation about it than being bald ever has for me
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has Germany said they should be called Deutschland by English speakers?
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…
Yes, compare Czech Republic-> Czechia. No problem typing that out, no problem updating my mental map of the world.
Frankly I dispute that Türkiye can be the English name given it contains a non-English letter.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has Germany said they should be called Deutschland by English speakers?
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…
Yes? It's obviously the case that countries can ask this?
We can choose not to do it, I guess, but place names change all the time. Istanbul vs Constantinople. New York vs New Amsterdam. Myanmar vs Burma. Czechia vs Czech Republic. Swaziland vs Eswatini.
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Yes, compare Czech Republic-> Czechia. No problem typing that out, no problem updating my mental map of the world. Frankly I dispute that Türkiye can be the English name given it contains a non-English letter.
I was gearing up to suggest that diaeresis very absolute valid English, but dug in a bit. It's not just a u with a diacritic. Ü is a separate letter in Turkish, with a more "ooh" or "ouh" like sound. TIL.