Tactical green shirts that he's getting paid to advertise lmao it's so perfect
Maybe people would have bought if there wasn't the infamous hate symbol "Z".
If “Archer” had a character who was a Head of state in a near-nuclear conflict who enlisted ISIS to move all of the unsold kitschy merch with his face on it I’d have said that it’s silly and unrealistic.
ISIS was the name of the spy agency in Archer, no affiliation with the Islamic State. They ended up writing it out after the real world ISIS started making headlines.
That was the best thing to come out of ISIS, putting an end to people using that Egyptian god's name because they thought it sounded sexy.
I just bought the Zelensky book and now they're releasing Zelenski?!
The book is in polish, thats how his name is written in that language
Honestly, I thought the spelling was Zieleński, considering it's basically the same surname as the polish Zieliński lol.
Guess not. But it's probably the same kind of stuff as forcing the spelling Kyiv when there's already the polish word Kijów. Performative nationalism targeted at a foreign audience.
Performative nationalism targeted at a foreign audience.
That is it. All this transliteration stuff is just performative. His one true name is Зеленський.
I see you're being :PIGPOOPBALLS: about it
But yeah, there's kinda no connection between his name's translated spelling in another language and the pleas to rename places abroad because [whatever reasons] - I was rambling.
Even there, there's nuance. Say the countries that went through a renaming during decolonization such as Burkina Faso vs say the Swazi name change a few years ago (which was criticized by the Communist Party of Swaziland as nationalistic pandering), and ultimately that is not exactly something worth arguing about and a culture-war wedge issue at worst.
I see you’re being :PIGPOOPBALLS: about it
not on purpose, I am happy to be educated. When I said "All this" I was referring to the whole it's Kyiv/Zelenskyy now or the Russians win hysteria that gripped the media. I should have been more clear.
No worries, the fault is mine.
It is an interesting subject though, and very nuanced like you say, when is it nationalistic pandering and when is it justified linguistic correction. There is a similar thing about exonyms, some countries are mainly referred to by their exonyms, like Greenland/Kalaallit Nunaat or Japan/Nihon and most recently Turkey/Türkiye.
It also surprised me, but i checked the polish wikipedia page and thats how it is written there
may I pweeze have mowe Abwam’s Tanks and Wocket pwopelled gwenades
Nah, I think it's just that libs don't read books. Conservatives don't either but at least they blindly buy things by name, like MyPillows. Don't worry, bumper sticker and lawn sign sales are still soaring.
Not looking good for that job lot of comedy coffee mugs and body pillows he ordered be made.
