https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.

  • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    I still call it Kiev because all the TV people switching words on a dime freaked me out. It's real 1984 shit when the entire media class just decides for geopolitical reasons the geographic name for a place everyone was used to using isn't usable anymore.

    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      they can do this one instantly, but scores of media outlets either took forever or haven't even got Turkiye down yet

      I still think a funny bit is just pretending to not accept the Cyrillic alphabet and calling it "Knib"

      • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 months ago

        "Turkiye" would be fine, but that is not the official English name, it's "Türkiye" which makes absolutely no sense. Maybe we should start referring to Japan as 日本 in English instead too /s

      • mathemachristian [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Tbh turkiye kinda weirds me out. I have never heard anyone complaon about it before.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      The grocery stores in my country all made a big thing about renaming their "Chicken Kievs" to "Chicken Kyevs" it was so funny.