I mean the ones who clearly put a lot of effort into it. You can practically hear the gears noisily turn in their heads as they adjust their mouths to roll the Rs and aspirate the Ts
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Just say Miyamodo, dude
It feels like you should do your best to repeat the pronunciation they give you, shouldn’t you? I’m just an American doing my best here :grillman:
When you’re speaking that language or are in a class for that language, yes. Idk, I just personally find it taxing to switch between pronounciations mid sentence so I don’t bother in regular speech
If an anglo introduced themselves as Frank I’d just call them F
Ränk when talking about them in FinnishYes this. It’s not only awkward and difficult to mix in different accents in the same sentence, the end result is :not-good:. It’s really only fine if you’re referring to words from your first language, that’s totally cool.
“Say it in the native pronunciation” sounds good at first, but if you actually committed to that it would quickly start to give… a very, very bad impression.
Mexico = Mé(h)ico ✔
Honduras = onduras ✔
Wow this seems to be working well, it’s like I’m a Spanish speaker. There are so many languages though…
Texas = Texas but do you say it with a Texas accent? Or should you say Tejas because Tejanos are the real Texans❓
Georgia, USA = Gaawwja ❓Same thing, do you drawl that shit out? They don’t say it like you do after all
Okay whatever this is pedantic, let’s just stick to other countries. Cmon man.
England = England but you say it like an English person or what ❓ Same for Australia and shit? Do you say STRAYA?
Britain = Unoi’ed Geengdum o’… Grret Brrri’en agus Tuaisceart Éireann ❓ Like do you start English then go Scottish then go Northern Irish? Maybe the “of” or the “and” should be Welsh? Fuck,
Okay okay, fuck the Anglos, they literally do not deserve this kind of consideration I get it, let’s move on
France = fʁɑ̃s ✔ Well yeah you sound a little pretentious but that’s okay
Germany = Deutschland :no-fash: ahhh fuck I don’t like this no no no
Fuck, okay, I don’t like that one bit. Let’s leave Europe, colonialist swine. Let’s do Asia.
Japan = Nippon ❌fucking nerd
China = Zhōngguó ❌What? What did you say?
India = there are 23 official languages of India, and if you pick the Hindi name you might as well host Narendra Modi at your next lu’au ❓
Okay those just aren’t recognizable, we’ll make an exception for now. Let’s normalize the real names someday and come back to this. Okay who’s next? Oh… Africa is next…
Democratic Republic of the Congo = République démocratique du Congo ✔ okay cool… wait did you just say it like a fucking French person? You might as well force the Congo to use your shitty money. Because that is literally not how they say it there - you’re back doing the same fucking thing but in French. ❌❌❌ Whoops! Okay we’ll say République démocratique du Congo but with a Congolese accent. Which accent I’m not sure…❓❓❓ Hmmm I’m not sure I like this, it sounds a little racist coming from me. Let’s move on.
Uganda = Uganda but you suddenly, jarringly inflect a shitty Ugandan accent in the middle of a sentence about Ugandan coffee, just to say the word Uganda. Why the fuck did you do that? First the Deutschland thing, now this shit? Are you Richard fucking Spencer? What the fuck
