Note: for any future commotion, this was supposed to be purely educational. Okay the question should be why do countries have to do this and why is it so hard not to? Wouldn’t it make sense to add this to the list of things the youth can learn at an early age?
Why can’t they just allow kids in schools to learn the true names of things no matter how hard they may be to pronounce? I understand the difficulty but computers and the Internet exist so we can translate and better implement this. Like some words in English where we have no single word translation like ‘Dejavu’ (pardon non autocorrect), I understand. But places were changed to make it easier to produce in a native tongue. I am sure it is not only America, or English, but wouldn’t we be better off respecting the culture and not changing the name, like we changed our map to the correct pronunciation of Turkey (Türkiye). So why don’t we change everything back to how the countries’ place names are pronounced by their citizens out of respect? We can learn how to pronounce things better. Would it make things harder or would it allow us to grow? I am genuinely curious.
Note: I understand some people won’t be able to pronounce them but why did they decide it would be better for a country/language than to just try to pronounce them correctly.
The only way I’ll push back on this is that this is ALSO exactly how math works, as math is a language.
Math can only describe logically consistent systems that stem from a set of definitions and axioms. Those definitions and axioms can vary between fields.
You may know of a “graph” as a visual representation of a curve in euclidean space. Someone who works in a field that uses graph theory, such as a network engineer, knows of a “graph” as a collection of nodes and their connections.
Wildly different definitions of the same word for different contexts. Both lead to logically consistent mathematical systems.