Kyiv Kyiv Kyiv I see it everywhere, where the fuck did this come from? My whole life the spelling was always Kiev. I am in my late 30's and have always had an interest in both geography and history.
My guess is it is so when people google it they automatically get "approved sources" with the new spelling, and anything with the spelling I am more familiar with will be deemed old fashioned. I imagine this is not the first time they've tried something like this. Am I the only one that is driven mad by this sudden new spelling?
It’s a trap!
I’ve been onto this for years!
It actually looks like this: Київ
All countries use made up words for other countries. You can witness this yourselves when they call out the country in the country’s name and then hear the US English name during the Olympics opening ceremonies.
ITALIA! (Italy) NIPPON (Japan) DEUTSCHLAND (Germany)
Wanna see something really, really wild? Read an encyclopedia world book from the 60’s.
Muslims = Moslems Islam= Mohommadism
And so on, and so on. Serious 1984 retcon shit.
Control language, control thought
🚨🚨wee woo wee woo🚨🚨
Thought Crime in Progress!
You have to eat bugs for two more weeks! Psychological Beatings Will continue until morality improves!
And if you know these changes, it helps you find the old sources more easily.
I use https://swisscows.com , https://qwant.com , and https://yandex.com and rarely use Google anymore. I obtain much better search results.
Swiss Cows is great as long as your search terms don't contain swear words.
Thanks! I’ve been using duck duck go for two years now... any thoughts on that one?
I miss altavista and hotbot because i’m an oldfag.
Duckduckgo seems to rely on Google and Bing results to generate much of its search results, which is why I use those other search engines.
From a privacy standpoint, it seems OK.
Thanks, tpop