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[-] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

I have never been able to understand why Seppos have to pronounce "Uyghur" as "weegur". Just fucking say "ooy-goor". Or even "oy-gur". You can do it. It's not difficult.

Inb4 I'm called a prescriptivist, yes I know I'm a hypocrite but this is just a pet peeve

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

I think it's okay to be prescriptivist about the names of minority groups.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

Yeah it's like being prescriptivist about your own name. You get to be picky about what you call yourself.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

That's just the natural way an English speaker reads that combination of letters, we'd have to interact with someone who actually knows what a uyghur is in order to hear the correct pronunciation

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

natural way an English speaker reads [uy]

In what world?!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Well, in this one for a start.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Alright, checking a word list, there is "soliloquy". But there is also words like "buy".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I think the "wee" sound comes from combining the "u" and the "y" sounds to be "oo-ee", and that sounds like a "w" when you say it quickly.

I can't think of an English word that has an initial "uy", so there's not really anything to follow there.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Listen to this clip of a Uyghur person saying "Uyghur" (it's the top link on that page, also the third) and tell me if it sounds more like "wee-gur" or "oy-gur".

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The link isn't working for me.

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So your point is basically that /uj/ is to your ears closer to /wi/ than to /oj/? It's not like I haven't heard Uyghurs say the word "Uyghur" before, I just thought that it was a bit silly to swap a vowel for a glide and a glide for a vowel. To me neither /wi/ nor /oj/ sound particularly close to /uj/, but of those two options I still favor /oj/ because it's the option that ends in a glide.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So your point is basically that /uj/ is to your ears closer to /wi/ than to /oj/?

Pretty much yeah. For the same reason the French "oui" sounds like "wee" to Anglophones and is usually reproduced that way to them.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

French 'oui' literally is pronounced /wi/, though. That's what any French dictionary will tell you.

Do you say 'muy bueno' as 'mwee bwennow' too?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

What's with all the WordNoun1234 names on Reddit recently? Name suggestions or bots?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

These are username suggestions made by reddit when signing up in case you want to use a randomly generated one

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I know it's lib shit to get people to point out things on maps but what percentage of people who are concerned about Xinjiang know that it shares a fucking border with Afghanistan, and have considered whether these issues are connected in any way

[-] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

That's an extremely material consideration. You want me to consider someone's physical location on earth? As a liberal I just can't do that, tankie.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

His reddit-logo post history is riddled with sanctimonious "one of the good ones" fundie statements, too.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Most likely they say it enough that their autocorrector switched it automatically

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Nick Mullen alt

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

This person's first claim is false. I would argue it's white American Protestants who believe the world is ending with them. That would be like 99% of all WASPs. The American Protestant operates in a manner which they don't have to care about anything going on in the world because the world ends with them. China doesn't give a fuck about the Ugyers up to the point they don't want extremeism to cause problems. So in reality it's the other way, China is taking approaches not to bring in religious fundamentalists in to their country. Once again America is the great satan as it's been proven time and time again. This person's brainworms keeps them from even making a logically coherent statement.

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