• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    Sounds like this guy doesn’t care about proper pronounciation, though. And Arabic isn’t really a language that’s completely unrecognizable when you pronounce the alphabetized names with most european accents (not including English), in contrast to Chinese.

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      5 days ago

      Hearing people pronounce Qatar should drive this home. English lacks the glottal “k” sound from Arabic so everything is on the table.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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        5 days ago

        Meh, close enough. I’d be surprised if Europeans pronounce even one letter right when reading “Zhōngguó” (China).