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Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by FuckyWucky@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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.

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[-] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 81 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 52 points 8 months ago

layoff-stare unprovoked full scale invasion

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 47 points 8 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 31 points 8 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

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago

Nippon libbing-out

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

No seriously it seems insane to officially change the English name and make a big stink about it but use a letter that isn’t in the English alphabet? Just skip the umlaut wtf are you doing