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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the leather chair empire

[–] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Became rotissery chicken land.

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 months ago

As I understand it they prefer to be called the "Republic of Rötisseriye" these days.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I wonder how many furniture stores there are in the world with the name Ottoman Empire.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Any car dealers out there operating as Automan empire?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I have no idea, but I know that it's far too many.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I recently found out that when the Ottoman Empire collapsed and they became Turkiye, they removed all the Persian and Arabic words from the Turkish language.

Imagine if after Brexit the English removed all the German and French words from their language.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think English would break. It's like half German derived words and half French/Romance language words wrapped in a Germanic grammatical structure.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 10 points 5 months ago

Apparently turkish was the same way. They can no longer understand any songs or books or anything written from before 1919

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it spelled Turkiye now?

And last I checked, I can't fuck a Turkiye.

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because the bird was originally named after the country, I have decided to update what I call the bird as well to match.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Same with a Chicken Kyiv for me 👍

Now I want a Turkiye Kyiv from Cymru

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

That's the thing about civilizational collapse, they seldom go away, they just change forms.