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Not to mention Silly Names. Looking at you, Sunari Glinton, Neda Ulaby, and Olfebia Quist-Arcton. Speaking of names, why do the anchors pronounce the Egypt-ba

• intopieces 11y ago
  >Speaking of names, why do the anchors pronounce the Egypt-based correspondent's name "Layla Fadel" while she pronounces her own name "Layla Faldin"? This irritates me no end! It's a product of accent. Her last name is فضل‎ . The anchors are producing the Arabic letter ض as [d], whereas Leila herself is pronouncing it as the Lebanese do: [dˤ]. The pharyngealization of the voiced alveolar stop has an effect on the next letter, pulling it from the alveolar lateral approximant [l] to something closer to to the retroflex lateral approximant, [ɭ]. Because we don't have [ɭ] in English (or whatever language/s you speak), you hear what's closest to that, the alveolar nasal [n]. The same goes for the phantom [l] you hear before the d: pharyngealization changes your perception of those sounds.
  • jerednel 11y ago
    So is it essentially like when an American pronounces the name, Pedro, with a rhotic R and without the alveolar trill?
    • intopieces 11y ago
      You have the concept right. However, in Spanish the 'r' in "Pedro" is not a trill but a tap. In Spanish, the trill only comes after /n/, /l/, or /s/ or at the beginning of a word.
  • mjklin 11y ago
    Thanks for this explanation! So I will put Ms. Fadel in the same category as Mandalit del Barco, both of whom "over-pronounce" their own names.
• mc32 11y ago
  Yeah, that I don't get. She always signs off "Fall.Den" but they always say "Faddle". But when it comes to most others, they over-pronounce foreign names --although they always mess up the "z" as either "s" or "z" instead of the actual "th" in Spanish surnames. But incomprehensibly, except for a couple of correspondents in country, they overwhelmingly don't come close with Chinese place names or personal names.