• CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Names evolve over time for a variety of reasons. The examples you provide aren’t also used as an insult the way turkey (the bird) is.

    Recently there’s also Czechia, Eswantini, North Macedonia.

    • Natanael@infosec.pub
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      22 hours ago

      A fair few doesn’t have a good pronunciation in other languages that those native speakers can reliably understand. That’s why we have localizations in the first place. Here in Sweden, Turkey (Turkiet) doesn’t sound like the bird (kalkon). It makes more sense to show the localized name and their internal name next to each other, and this is already common in many maps.