On 3/24/07, Baris Cicek <baris teamforce name tr> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 07:04 -0700, Elliot Lee wrote: > Baris Cicek wrote: > > > I'll talk w/ our local GUG about if we can organize to host GUADEC next year in Istanbul. > > Not Constantinople? It was called Constantinople ages ago, afaik, but however you call it, as long as we point same land place, some languages still uses Constantinople name I guess. Though officially this city is called Istanbul as one of most beautiful cities in the World. (even though lots of corruption due to migration).
I believe Elliot was making a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Not_Constantinople Moral of the story: always footnote your non-cross-cultural jokes ;) Luis