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"we're about six weeks away from the final, blessed death of any and all conversations about the fact that the man's name is spelled with letters we don't have in English. For nearly four decades, America has been obsessed with the fact that his name starts with something close enough to a G, Q, K, or Kh that any of them could be used, but not close enough that one of them is consistently used. Well, in six weeks or so, his name will be out of the public discourse forever, and everyone will finally shut the fuck up about it and do what we should have done years ago - just spell it however Wikipedia does." - youaredumb.net

In the mean time, [livejournal.com profile] draxar has provided this:

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Date: 2011-10-21 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com
Khadhdhaffy? Someone was getting paid by the lettter.

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Date: 2011-10-21 06:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com
Why had I never heard of You Are Dumb before? Thank you!

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Date: 2011-10-21 09:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skington.livejournal.com
Isn't that graphic from the Wikipedia article? That's certainly where the person who mentioned it yesterday said they'd got it.

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Date: 2011-10-21 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
It does appear to be from Wikipedia. Sourcing has been reworded.

([livejournal.com profile] draxar never claimed to have made it, he just posted it and I assumed.)

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Date: 2011-10-21 09:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cacahuate.livejournal.com
Actually, that last vowel sound can be -i, -y, -ii, OR -iy.

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Date: 2011-10-21 10:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] krfsm.livejournal.com
"We who are oppressed love those who fight against oppression and the oppressors...
Brothers and sisters, it is with great honor and privilege that I present to you the leader of the El Fatah revolution...
From Libya, our brother Muhammar El Kahdafi."

Mmm, Front 242.

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Date: 2011-10-22 01:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] fearmeforiampink
Aye, you're the second person who's made the assumption, I'll add a note to the post…

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