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Wew. There's a lot to unpack here.

my name seemed like it physically couldn’t fit in people’s mouths, so they spat it out like bad food

So I guess when an immigrant is incapable of pronouncing my name correctly, I should feel offended?

Ever notice how the same folks who butcher African names are the same people who somehow, can say names like “Tchaikovsky” and “Dostoyevsky” like a buttery piece of cake?

In other words, "I can't tell how bad people mispronounce those names, so they must be getting it right."

I use my American nickname, Shirley, a lot, I’ve been more inclined to offer Ngozi in professional settings.

Apparently she doesn't consider HuffPo to be very professional since that's what her name on the byline is. Can't argue with that.

And just the idea that Alex Trebek actually would spend his own time researching this stuff and have interns do it for him... I can't even...

Ever notice how the same folks who butcher African names are the same people who somehow, can say names like “Tchaikovsky” and “Dostoyevsky” like a buttery piece of cake?

So they can (more-or-less) properly pronounce the two Russian names they’ve heard before? Wow. What a shock. Dollars to doughnuts this lady would fuck up my grandmother’s names if Epstein has to say them without hearing them first.

Seriously, this dumb bimbo clearly didn’t inherit her parents’ intellect. 95% of Americans trying to pronounce my Slavic last name for the first time completely screw up the pronunciation. Somehow I don’t feel “otherized” or assume it’s because of racism every time it happens.

Imperial...uh.. Sair-duck-are is it? Check your privilege.

Hell, my last name is fucking Norwegian and people still skip over it and mispronounce it all the time.

Americans fuck up pretty much every last name longer than 2 syllables.

So they can (more-or-less) properly pronounce the two Russian names they’ve heard before?

Ehh.

We mispronounce "Ivan" and "Vladimir" every time we say them. We just don't know it, and Russians don't write think pieces on lefty tabloid sites about it.

Too busy being drunk, probably.

Maybe them rigging elections in the USA was payback for that. They made their troll farms out of guys named Ivan and Vladimir who were pissed off.

“The fuck you guys doing”

-Boris

Yes you put the accent on the wrong vowel.

I can't tell how bad people mispronounce those names

I just learned how to properly pronounce "Kierkegaard" the other day, and I still can't say it right.

The fucking entitlement to get pissed off when people say your weird name wrong without ever hearing it is astounding. People pronounce my name wrong all the time and I just correct them politely and move on. Hell I even say a slightly anglicized version of my name in certain crowds because I know it's hard for them to say it with the right accent. At some point you just have to accept that your name is hard for some people to pronounce and get the fuck over it. It's not the end of the world.

The fucking entitlement of you to call another language’s name weird as if your own shit name doesn’t sound weird to other people.

If only I could ping outside. I should send her my original name and have her pronounce it. Fun would be had, since not even native Chinese speaker couldn't get the Wade–Giles pronunciation right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-fcrn1Edik

Ever notice how the same folks who butcher African names are the same people who somehow, can say names like “Tchaikovsky” and “Dostoyevsky” like a buttery piece of cake?

Funny thing is English speakers tend to butcher those names, as well as Dutch, and French names for instance. That bitch is just too dumb to know that and just assumes she's the only one who's being "targetted".

Ever notice how the same folks who butcher African names are the same people who somehow, can say names like “Tchaikovsky” and “Dostoyevsky” like a buttery piece of cake?

Well... those people mattered.

/u/the_reason_trump_won

You should be banned for pinging you facist

Facism is just a bunch of teenagers masquerading

The Holocaust was a senior prank that took it too far.

Imagine not being whitelisted for pinging

When a teacher, a secondary authority figure in mine and every kid’s life for likely more than a decade, pronounced my name wrong, even once, I felt branded with “wrong” or “other.”

And here I just thought my name was hard to smoosh into English phonetics. You mean I've actually been oppressed this entire time?

You just didn't know how to be offended before. You missed out on so many chances. This is why you have to educate yourself.

The Nigbo tribe.

I'm one of the whitest mayos I know. New people trying to pronounce my last name historically have <10% chance of getting it right. It's because it's pronounced differently than you'd reasonably think from looking at it. Just like Igbo.

I'm a Polcel so I've gotten used to spelling out my last name before anyone even asks

I'm German, Irish, and Polish. Watching people trying to pronounce my extended family's names is fun

And then it happened: Alex Trebek mispronounced “Igbo,” the name of the people of my blood, saying the “g” when the “g” should be silent.

The "g" isn't silent you fucking retard "gb" represents a doubly articulated labio-velar consonant which is uncommon in the world's languages and therefore hard to pronounce for most people, especially those from entirely different lingustic backgrounds.

Igbo is pronounced ee-boh.

No, it's pronounced [ɪ̀ɡ͡bòː]. Not even close.

"Ig-bo" is the commonly accepted English pronunciation though, just like we say "French" instead "français". For the record the way most people say "Tchaikovsky" butchers Russian phonology as well.

Fuck!

labio

heh

damn, u smart

Aw shucks, I got middling regognition in skimming shit in college, thats all.

You shit on her in like three languages.

once you bring out the IPA it's over

Indian Pale Ale?

This guy talks^

I’m Nigerian and igbo and we say Ee-boh.

I was on the receiving end of role of “Jeopardy!” in “encouraging, celebrating and rewarding knowledge” that eventually won the show a Peabody Award in 2011.

literally not a clue what this genetically impaired sentence is attempting to say

That brainy man goes out of his way to almost over-pronounce everything from “La Rochefoucauld” (French) to “Reichsmarschall” (German); with matching accents (I can’t confirm they’re perfect accents, but this is all to say that he goes in) to boot.

So you admit your whole article is pointless and retarded then?

I can't imagine being this fragile. Can you imagine accidentally hiring a woman like this and having to deal with her retarded drama? You know a lawsuit is coming if this dumbass is fired. Also, nobody knows what the fuck an Igbo is because nobody gives a shit about Africa. I just imagine they all make clicking sounds at each other and it has worked out well for me so far.

Humanity is fucked

I went to the only dude who can actually give me the answers ― answers I need.

My dad.

When I told him about the “Jeopardy!” gaffe, he laughed and said the following:

“You know, Alex Trebek is really, very good with pronunciation. I’m not surprised that he made that mistake; most people who are not from there do that. He just needs to do more research.”

So, your dad said everything that needs to be said about the subject, and you respect his opinion...yet you still felt the need to write all this shit?

this bitch is lucky alex didnt mispronounce niger too

i can't even pronounce my own name

Jesus shit, is there anything they won’t bitch about?

One time there was a girl at my school with the surname of 'Zwierzhchevich' PR something such. When asked how to pronounce it she would always reply 'Even I dont know how'.

She talks about pride in her name and how Uzoamaka Aduba has great pride too. But interestingly she refers t her as the nickname "uzo" and use her own exotic nickname "shirley"

A huffpo crybaby article. How surprising.

The record of my mind began spinning out and then scratched hard. Cue nails on a chalkboard and glass-breaking post-operatic high C. I just kept thinking to myself ― do European and Eastern and other regions merit more attention than African nations? Than Nigeria?

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