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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
You can take your devs vult and shove it where the sun don't shine. You've shamelessly even named yourself after a colonizer that basically started the british mandate of palestine. Your kind has done unspeakable things in west asia and you will be remembered by history as people that were rotten to the core. Future generations will be baffled as to how humans could come to the stuff that your kind did.
Miklagard
I like Istanbul better that Constantine-vill
Carigrad
Miklagaard
Istanbulgaria.
Istanbulgaristan.
I had a date in Constantinople...
They'll be waiting in Istanbul.
Been a long time gone, Constantinople. Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
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Even oooold New York was New Amsterdam.
Why they changed it, I can't say.
People just liked it better that way!
So take me back to Constantinople!
The image misspellet "Constantinople" as "Constanantinople"
Constananananananantinople
Constananananananabatmantinople
It’s nobody’s business but the Turks’
Aaaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^~aaaaaaaa~^aaaaa^aaaaaaaaa
I was hoping to see this comment.
Miklagard!
Can't go back to Constantinople.
What's interesting is that the name "Istanbul" is still Greek.
it developed in Turkish 16c. as a corruption of Greek phrase eis tan (ten) polin "in (or to) the city," which is how the local Greek population referred to it.
NEEEEEERD!
.... actually I was rolling into the comments to say the same thing. Right on brother
Why they changed it, I can't say. Maybe people just liked it better that way?
Someone should talk to TMBG about this.
Byzanz
Ehhh naming stuff after individuals just sounds very icky to me
🫸 Beijing
👉 Peking
~~Peking Duck~~ Beijing Duck
~~Chicken Kiev~~ Chicken Kyiv
The university is still named that way
Kinda bad comparison.
Beijing was always* beijing. Peking was just a european fever dream.
On the other hand
Constantinople was the offical name and got later renamed Istanbul.
Yeah, i guess it's just one of those weird Euro things. Just like measuring things in deci/centilitres. When I lived in the UK everyone called it Beijing and measured everything in ml.
in finnish it's still "peking"
Same in Czech
Byzantion.