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What a fucking idiot, I'm not wasting any more time on you.
Illiterate fuck who can't read things calls others ‘idiot’. What an irony.
I can read things fine, and your red herrings don't change that.
Typically when you ask someone a question, they either answer from their pre-existing knowledge or they do some research and answer from that.
If you rule out any answers from "pre-existing knowledge" and say they can't answer without it, you're not saying much. That's like saying "Ha! You can't even breathe without your lungs." Not really a gotcha.
Hence, you're an idiot.
Hey dipshit, basically everyone in the world except English, Chinese and Japanese speakers can read anything in their language that they ever come across for the first time just fine, because they have consistent rules for that. But it's only you illiterate USian cretins pretend that you can actually comprehend anything and everything that stemmed from the Latin alphabet, while genuinely having no clue even remotely as to how things are actually read, be it in a foreign or even your own language. The infinite USian arrogance is on display, as usual. You jackasses are entirely incapable of saying “I don't know how this is pronounced”, because that would damage your paper-thin fragile ego and make you look just a little less that everyone else on the planet, which of course is unacceptable.
Wow, more hostility from someone who can't defend their own argument. How typical...
You're also assuming my nationality, which is hilarious.
Nope, never did that.
One doesn't need a full comprehension of every writing system in the world just to have an intelligent discussion about loan words containing diacritics, every comment you've left has been full of strawmen, red herrings, and ad hominems.
Scroll back a couple comments to where I said plain as day that I don't have any experience with Slovenian and therefore cannot tell you how Žižek is pronounced. Then stop hallucinating.
From the beginning, this conversation has been about you getting upset about how Türkiye is spelled. So don't attack me as some ignoramus who can't tolerate other languages.
I already told you loan words exist in English with diacritics that aren't in the English alphabet. Then you launched into a tirade like a petulant child because you couldn't find an honest way to refute my point, and your ego was too fragile to admit you had been wrong.
Digging yourself in deeper isn't going to help your case.
“I already told you loan words exist in English with diacritics that aren't in the English alphabet therefore it's okay that the diacritics have zero actual use and dragging them into English is delusional and dishonest”
I see you're legitimately having trouble grasping what has been already said to you in the thread, time and again. Insults started and continue from your side, despite your claims.
I'm no longer participating in this impromptu special Olympics. Fell free to consider yourself the winner and the most special.
I've already explained their use. You couldn't argue against that legitimately so you resorted to personal attacks. "Dragging them" into English is neither delusional nor dishonest; it happens quite frequently as I already pointed out. You're the only one here being delusional and dishonest, because you have such an inexplicable hatred for the way Türkiye is spelled. Strange...
Raw projection, plain and simple.
I only called you an idiot because you said that I couldn't answer a question "except from pre-existing knowledge," as if that were an insult. That's pretty idiotic.
Good. Good riddance.
So now you're ableist too? I hope everyone in your life knows what a hideous personality you have.
Whatever you need to tell yourself in order to feel better about being plainly wrong and unable to admit it. Just go ahead and insult me more, like the petulant child that you are. Doesn't bother me at all.