Erdogan wants people to call Turkey "Türkiye" even in English and other languages (user search)
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« on: February 16, 2022, 01:03:42 PM »
One of the great unresolved challenges of human language will always be translating proper nouns. 

If the current fashion of preferring local spelling/pronunciation is taken to its logical conclusion, then there is no reason "Beijing" won't be printed as 北京 in the English-language newspapers of tomorrow.   
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