Audience Corrects Interviewer On Mispronouncing Issa Rae's Name

[hisjulliet]

Audience corrects interviewer who mispronounced Issa Rae’s name during their discussion at CultureCon. pic.twitter.com/COL7ioyevI
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 8, 2023
When an interviewer pronounces Issa's name wrong, some people in the audience were quick to point out to the interviewer on how to pronounce her name correctly.  The interviewer then

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[2_on]

my anxiety is so bad that i can't imagine having to present someone and not looking up how to say their name beforehand

[screamingintune]

tbh it seems like a no-brainer if you're in a professional setting like that to look into it. I feel like that's one thing baseball commentators do actually pretty well, there's a lot of difficult baseball names and they always seem to know the proper way to say it. it doesn't take a LOT of research to do this if you're in some kind of entertainment job, honestly

[afeelingunacted]

I work in a creative field and even though I have common names the press people made me record a little audio thing of me pronouncing my own name they can give out to people moderating. I'm sure they do the same in sports, especially because commentators have to use their names so much.

It's a nice touch and actually quite common now!

I wonder if Issa is so famous now they just assumed the mod could look it up.

[yami_no_hoshi]

exactly. just watch 5 minutes of her show, she has the same name as her character! I would be triple checking everything if I was interviewing someone.

[milkradio]

lmao same! like aren’t you mortified to be exposed as not having done the most BASIC checking before going out in public?! i would be so embarrassed! and i hate being embarrassed!