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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the leather chair empire

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Became rotissery chicken land.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Any car dealers out there operating as Automan empire?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't it spelled Turkiye now?

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Same with a Chicken Kyiv for me 👍

Now I want a Turkiye Kyiv from Cymru

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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