Subtitled: The Vowels are Out to Get You Dear Language Nerd, So I’m an English speaker visiting Turkey, and I’ve picked up a few words of Turkish, but somehow they don’t seem to square with anything I see written. Is it just me, or is the Turkish alphabet way more different from ours than it […]
Dear Language Nerd, Why IS it Istanbul (not Constantinople)? -Cameron J. *** Dear Cameron, And whose business is that, really? I mean besides the Turks? Renaming places is generally slightly more complicated than people just liking a city better that way. In fact, it’s all about the power. It happens frequently when new groups replace […]