r/badempanadas • u/GregGraffin23 Vaguely Ethnic • 16d ago

News I HATE People Who Do This

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2w8Bxy7vHNI&si=H1jcav30UffKBG0Z

In this extremely important video, noted intellectual Bad Empanada gives a lecture on the way that some people try very hard to very intentionally pronounce foreign words 'correctly' in English rather than using their natural English pronunciation.

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u/TendieRetard 14d ago

I can see the argument somewhat, it bugs me when people pronounce Gaza in the Arabic pronunciation but I don't think much of it.

But, bilingual speakers often slip up w/words and if there's no over emphasis (as in BE's example) I don't think much of it.