I'll give you a like for that. I have my reservations about assisted dying, but I'd rather we decided it for human reasons rather than because of what someone's god thinks. (View Post)

I quite like and respect the Academie Francaise, actually. It's so admirably French. Wouldn't work for English. Who would it? And it would be staffed by the sort of people who would absolut… (View Post)

More generally, on reflection, I find any attempt of other people to change words which were previously perfectly acceptable very irritating. Whether its products, names of pubs, names of cities, ren… (View Post)

I don't mind about Czechia and Peking, because I think those were correctings of misunderstandings. The i already has a dot! Why does it need another? What does that do? What language is that fr… (View Post)

And when I address Turks in Turkish, I would have no problem calling it Turkiye. But I don't see why I should have to use a Turkish word in conversations with other English speakers. What harm w… (View Post)