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
I think it’s okay to be prescriptivist about the names of minority groups.
Yeah it’s like being prescriptivist about your own name. You get to be picky about what you call yourself.
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
natural way an English speaker reads [uy]
In what world?!
Well, in this one for a start.
Alright, checking a word list, there is “soliloquy”. But there is also words like “buy”.
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”.
The link isn’t working for me.
Does this work: https://forvo.com/languages/ug/
Nope.
OK I downloaded it and uploaded it to soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/casskaydee/uyghur-as-pronounced-by-uyghur-person
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.
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.
What’s with all the WordNoun1234 names on Reddit recently? Name suggestions or bots?
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
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.
Most likely they say it enough that their autocorrector switched it automatically
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post history is riddled with sanctimonious “one of the good ones” fundie statements, too.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
keeps them from even making a logically coherent statement.Nick Mullen alt
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