He looks great
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By Beetlemoses
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By Beetlemoses
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Turkey's greatest national project, little known to the world, was painting their English county name on the ground in letters that can be seen from space
Well it wasn’t done by the Turks. Because they are pretty adamant that you spell it as Türkiye even in English.
I feel like translating country names is a bit icky, like translating somebody's name to a local language, feels like cultural erasure... But it seems like a necessity when certain names can't be written in other alphabets or even pronounced in certain languages.
If you look at e.g. Germany, it's Deutschland in German, but others might call it Allemagne, Tyskland, Germania, Niemcy, Saska, ...
I very much don't want to police what others would like to be called, but feel like having your own local name for a country is mostly normal and fine.
I might also not be the biggest fan of the concept of countries, but that's neither here nor there.
In this case replacing ü with u is easy, even if the sound isn't similar it looks similar enough.
Deutschland vs Germany vs Alemania tho, unforgiveable. Yeah it's pronounced Doichland (kinda, forgive me Germans) but Germany or Alemania are neither similar or sound similar.
España VS Spain is kinda similar, but low key hate that we need to go to the fucking S in drop downs when our country code is ES... Even when the drop down has España, it's always below Sri Lanka.
I think you can see this in several ways: The way I see it, having local names for a country should typically be seen in a positive light, because those local names typically come from having a very long history of interacting. Basically, if your language has a dedicated name for some country, it's likely because people from your countries were interacting way back when travelling across Europe could take months. Those long distances, coupled with language barriers and such, led people to translate names.
One good example I can think of is that the Norwegian name for Belarus is "Hviterussland" (literally "White russia", which is a direct translation of "Belarus" from Belarusian). That name has been documented to have something like a 1000 year long history in the nordics, from when the vikings were travelling east. A couple years ago, the official name was changed to "Belarus". Honestly, I think it's sad that a a name that in a sense serves as a time-witness to the fact that we've interacted with these people for 1000+ years can be removed with the stroke of a pen because some people don't know their history and didn't like the name they've had in Nordic languages for 1000 years.
That's just the president, most Turks don't really care either way.
Why did the alien go to Turkey, as opposed to other countries on Earth? I don’t get it, but then again, I don’t get out much.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/06/nx-s1-5544362/turkey-hair-transplants-tourism
Thank you. This all makes sense now.
The first time I had a layover in Istanbul, I thought I got on a set of some horror movie. Sow many men with bleeding scalps.
Akshually you can’t do these hair transplants if you are completely bald. Because the operation requires donor hairs the only thing they do is move hairs from a spot with hair to a bald spot.
Unless of course this alien has thick luscious hair on his chest.
So what you're telling me is the forest on my back might have a purpose after all
No one is saying that
I'm saying that. I'm saying it right now. And I'll say it again.
I appreciate you
You are beautiful
Too short. Now, but your crotch area..
a warning that follicles retain their characteristics when transplanted.
Perfect
Saturday Night Live did it.
I think the implication is that the guy on our left donated their hair which makes even less sense
Oh yeah now I see it. Well now the alien has to swallow immunosuppressants their entire life otherwise the hairs will fall out.
It's likely that anyone with the technology to fly halfway across the galaxy also has the technology for xeno-grafting.
So it's easier for someone who had an organ transplant to have a hair transplant since they're already on immunosuppressants then?
No wait, this could work.
If modern society has shown me anything, humankind will stop at nothing when it comes to advertizing. Imagine how much further we could get the Voyager 1 with a team of marketers attempting to get the word out about Turkish hair transplants.
We could solve the Fermi Paradox in about 10 years lol
I can't believe turkey painted its English name in massive red letters
They're advertising their hair transplant business
it's old English name
I don't see enough blinding white veneers
What does Turkey have to do with it though?
Turkey is famous for its hair implant surgery.
Huh. TIL.
We need more of these silly wholesome things, to distract from the usually Lemmy nonsense.
Sometimes they take beard hair to implant on the head
I just shave my pubes and staple them to my head and that's enough to get a girlfriend, I found. That and a gun. That's also a vital component to the alchemy, I find.
I have gone to several Thankgivings in my life, and yet I'm still losing my hair.
I am more worried about aliens listening to Turkish rap.