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It doesn't matter, they'd try to pronounce it correctly. This whole thing is a strange strawman regarding your belief that other cultures pronounce things howe
by SamBam 5y ago
It doesn't matter, they'd try to pronounce it correctly.
This whole thing is a strange strawman regarding your belief that other cultures pronounce things however that spelling would be pronounced in their country, but there's simply no citation for that.
You brought up the pronunciation of "gnocchi." I have heard French people pronounce it while speaking French (I have travelled in France a lot). They pronounce it as the Italians do, while speaking French.
How did they learn that? If a French kid saw the word spelled out the first time, and hadn't been taught Italian, they'd have no idea what to do with that "ch." (The "gn" would have been less confusing.)
Yet they did pronounce it correctly, because, like most words, the word would generally have been learned orally. And if some French school kid started saying "gno-shi," his peers would have corrected them.
- rendall 5y ago> It doesn't matter That is exactly the entire point. I dispute the idea that "correctly" means what you say it means. If Italians collectively decided that "be DEN" was the correct Italian pronunciation of the American name Biden, it's arrogant to tell them "No, when speaking Italian, you must say BYE den" If you can agree with that even a little bit, then you agree a little bit with my larger point.