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The Western pronunciation of his name is completely butchered. It's really more like "rrosson" in Arabic...
by anonu 7y ago
The Western pronunciation of his name is completely butchered. It's really more like "rrosson" in Arabic...
- mc32 7y agoIf that's true, then I'd say much of the blame lies with how it's transliterated. Like why couldn't they use your spelling or similar to convey an approximation to the Lebanese pronunciation?
- anonu 7y agoHis last name in Arabic is غصن, the first letter being غ or ghayn ... This sound has no equivalent in English. On an English keyboard you would approximate the sound with a 3. So his name would be 3osn. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet) Ultimately transliterations are probably the legacy of some ancestor who immigrated decades or a century ago from Lebanon to Europe or the Americas.