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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
The name can still be Turkey in English, kind of like how we can say Germany and not Deutschland…
Or we can respect the name they prefer, since it’s important enough that they requested international recognition. I’m pretty loosey goosey with my own name and don’t mind if other people are, but I respect when other people don’t feel the same way. I don’t see any reason to insist on disregarding it for a whole country.
This is really bad. The timing couldn't be worse, pretty much everybody was at home. The videos that came out so far are devastating, whole apartment buildings leveled with everybody in them, people trapped under the rubble and calling out for help. Given the timing and the magnitude the first estimates of casualties seem surprisingly low, I really hope that they are right but there are some major cities right in the…
The 1999 Izmit earthquake (similar magnitude, different region) had 17000 deaths. Hopefully less this time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Turkey
The name can still be Turkey in English, kind of like how we can say Germany and not Deutschland…
Turkey has been standardizing its name in every language as Türkiye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey#Official_name_change
This guy somehow predicted it? https://twitter.com/hogrbe/status/1621479563720118273?t=uZuu... Lucky or good?
Hmm this guy's focus on planetary movements and lunar geometry light up the parts of my brain reserved for detecting quackery. I would bet that he got extremely lucky with his timing.
The name can still be Turkey in English, kind of like how we can say Germany and not Deutschland…
Czechia (formerly Czech Republic) is also trying to change their English-language name; in both cases seems like a reasonable request and worth respecting, at least when it comes at low cost (I wouldn't rush to reprint maps or anything just for this, but am happy to use the terms in new materials including typing it in comments.)
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Hmm this guy's focus on planetary movements and lunar geometry light up the parts of my brain reserved for detecting quackery. I would bet that he got extremely lucky with his timing.
Indeed. He'd have had more respect (and less suspicion) if he's tweet was something like: foreshake detected at xx,yy location, given the nature of the location, high probability of an earthquake of 7.5M. He's fishing for attention from the general public.