Freudian slip. He really wanted to say another word instead of "wiggers"
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I have never been able to understand why Seppos have to pronounce "Uyghur" as "weegur". Just fucking say "ooy-goor". Or even "oy-gur". You can do it. It's not difficult.
Inb4 I'm called a prescriptivist, yes I know I'm a hypocrite but this is just a pet peeve
I think it's okay to be prescriptivist about the names of minority groups.
Yeah it's like being prescriptivist about your own name. You get to be picky about what you call yourself.
That's just the natural way an English speaker reads that combination of letters, we'd have to interact with someone who actually knows what a uyghur is in order to hear the correct pronunciation
natural way an English speaker reads [uy]
In what world?!
What's with all the WordNoun1234 names on Reddit recently? Name suggestions or bots?
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That's an extremely material consideration. You want me to consider someone's physical location on earth? As a liberal I just can't do that, tankie.
Most likely they say it enough that their autocorrector switched it automatically
This person's first claim is false. I would argue it's white American Protestants who believe the world is ending with them. That would be like 99% of all WASPs. The American Protestant operates in a manner which they don't have to care about anything going on in the world because the world ends with them. China doesn't give a fuck about the Ugyers up to the point they don't want extremeism to cause problems. So in reality it's the other way, China is taking approaches not to bring in religious fundamentalists in to their country. Once again America is the great satan as it's been proven time and time again. This person's
keeps them from even making a logically coherent statement.
I have never been able to understand why Seppos have to pronounce "Uyghur" as "weegur". Just fucking say "ooy-goor". Or even "oy-gur". You can do it. It's not difficult.
Inb4 I'm called a prescriptivist, yes I know I'm a hypocrite but this is just a pet peeve
I think it's okay to be prescriptivist about the names of minority groups.
Yeah it's like being prescriptivist about your own name. You get to be picky about what you call yourself.
That's just the natural way an English speaker reads that combination of letters, we'd have to interact with someone who actually knows what a uyghur is in order to hear the correct pronunciation
In what world?!