I imagine being seen as above it all gives an increased amount of job security for him. Probably also can be used for dealing with corruption, so the various parties can dig up evidence on each other and he deals with the worst of them so everyone thinks justice is for all.
I'd say probably
not that - corruption investigations are too close to the ordinary criminal justice system and ordinary politics for the post-1950 Ottoman state to feel comfortable putting them in the Sultan's hands. The Sultan's role is a somewhat fluid one - any given Sultan will have the influence that he and the political stakeholders agree he should have - but there are very strong unwritten rules against that influence extending to partisan politics or secular law. The exception would be corruption by
religious figures.
But the e is silent in French too (e.g., Sartre /saʁtʁ/, macabre /makabʁ/, etc.).
Fair enough - my error. The American pronunciation does include a hard R, though.
Always. (Semper Fi)....
American culture's likely to have quite a few jokes about cars and the Marines. Perhaps an automaker has used the phrase "Semper Fi" to boast about the reliability of their vehicles. (The alt-Jeep would be a good one for that.)
Cheesy tabloid headlines too: "SEMPER FI: Beloved '54 Courier Still On the Road After a Million Miles."
Then again, given America's lack of involvement in foreign wars ITTL, it's likely that the Marine Corps doesn't have the sort of pop culture reputation that it gained from OTL's World War II. The Marines will undoubtedly still exist, but they'll likely be seen as part of the Navy, more like "marines" as they're known in the rest of the world: the armed units defending ships from boarding parties. Though that doesn't preclude them from gaining a badass image; just look at OTL's Royal Marines, which could serve as a model for TTL's USMC.
I agree that the Royal Marines might be a good comparison. TTL's USN has the same place in the American military that the RN traditionally did in the British: the elite, flagship force, and the one charged with keeping threats far enough from American soil that the Army doesn't have to defend against them. The US Marines would be the American infantry force most likely to see action, not only against boarders but on antiterrorist raids and similar short-term operations. They'd also be the first in line for peacekeeping deployments. So definitely a badass image, albeit not the OTL image of being the front-line fighters of America's wars.
The history and culture is so different that we could have an anime equivalent develop anywhere.
Well, even though anime owes a lot to Walt Disney it also owes a lot to those Japanese artistic and literary traditions that influenced the birth of manga as well; an anime equivalent won't be able to develop anywhere, but there are a lot of places in the Malêverse where Western comics could be adopted by non-Western populations and then turned into something different through the influence of local artistic and literary sensibilities. China and Korea both seem likely candidates, since their culture is closely related to Japan's - due to millennia of Chinese influence - but there are a lot of other possibilities, like South and Southeast Asia or even West Africa.
I believe I mentioned at one point that the Ottoman world might be like this - that its success in retaining political and cultural coherence (albeit for certain values of each) could make it more open to adapting Western cultural artifacts in a way similar to OTL Japan. I could imagine this happening in Persia or India too - I'd pay real money to see animation with a Mughal aesthetic.
As stated previously, anyone with a background in the relevant cultures and art forms is welcome to develop this - I'd love to see your ideas.
Are there any constructed languages like Esperanto made to facilitate global communication and commerce ITTL?
I'd imagine that there are - the idea of an international language predates the POD, and such languages were one of the utopian ideas that kept cropping up during the nineteenth century. The earlier growth of a post-national ideal ITTL might actually mean
more people attempting to construct international auxiliary languages.
I'd expect that most of these languages will still be regionally based - it would be very hard to build a global language drawing from many language families and grammars and still achieve the goal of making it easy to learn and understand. OTOH, the language-builders of TTL might be more willing to raid, say, Malay for simplified grammar, and closer relationships between Europe and the Islamic world might mean greater willingness to build a European-Arabic construct similar to the
medieval Mediterranean lingua franca.
(Also,
the story is now finished.)
