• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    21 hours ago

    Those are all legitimate grievances, I just don’t know why the country’s spelling is the target of retribution. You do you, though, it’s not like Turkiye has replaced Turkey in common usage yet anyway.

    • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      20 hours ago

      It’s because I’m petty as fuck. While I absolutely recognize that nothing I do will have any influence on the Turkish government at all, I like to imagine some Turkish bureaucrat will somehow stumble over my usage and be mildly annoyed.

      Again, I recognize that this is petty, ultimately pointless, and probably indicative of just generally unhealthy behavior/decision-making on my part.

      Edit - I think it stems from a thought process of “Oh, you want me to spell Turkey differently? Yeah well the Armenians would like you to recognize literal genocide, so fuck you and fuck your spelling.”