• @[email protected]
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    6 hours ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      56 hours ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        106 hours ago

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

  • @NOT_RICK
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    3110 hours ago

    Ah yes, the leather chair empire

    • @[email protected]
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      138 hours ago

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

      • IndiBrony
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        67 hours ago

        Same with a Chicken Kyiv for me 👍

        Now I want a Turkiye Kyiv from Cymru

    • @Cort
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      138 hours ago

      Any car dealers out there operating as Automan empire?

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      48 hours ago

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

  • @DarkCloud
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    79 hours ago

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