What's in a name? | Everything and nothing, all at once | September 2022

Episode 209 September 15, 2022 00:17:36
What's in a name? | Everything and nothing, all at once | September 2022
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What's in a name? | Everything and nothing, all at once | September 2022

Sep 15 2022 | 00:17:36

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Eddie Arrieta

Show Notes

Asking the entire world to start calling Turkey “Türkiye” without a really convincing justification is sort of akin to asking a group of 40 undergraduate linguistics students to call a pen a “skopliotron.”

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