Audience Corrects Interviewer On Mispronouncing Issa Rae's Name

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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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[who_love]

I always remember watching Pointless (A BBC quiz show) years ago and a contestant gave the answer Lupita Nyog'o and they gave it! You would not give it if it was John given as Johnson so why is it OK to get her name wrong?

[noodlecookie]

I remember that! It was so frustrating. That and The Chase are so nitpicky when it comes to british things but let everything else slide.

[deerlike]

The British are the worst at pronouncing anything that isn't in English, they have to bastardise it into a different pronunciation altogether because apparently pronouncing things correctly is pretentious and "this is how it would be pronounced in English." (But it's not an English word/name!) They just don't even bother to try to say it right, or even close to right.

[noodlecookie]

MTE or they just give you a new nickname against your will.

[invisiblemonkey]

I have a 4 letter, 2 syllable name and yet people manage to both mispronounce and misspell it. I have a particular distaste for the americanised version because it sounds ugly af.

[irajaxon]

i feel ya, mine is 5 letters/2 syllabus, and i also hate how it sounds in english.

[jenfolder]

Ooh I also remember the headteacher at my middle school could not pronounce my sister's totally normal generic name and insisted to me that it was pronounced with a lyn sound at the end rather than line as it was spelt.

Even a round of conversation where she'd go 'your sister "x",' and I'd go 'you mean my sister "y",' didn't stop it.

Yes, Miss I know I was 8 years old but I also knew how my whole family said my sister's name forever.

[sniffu]

I mean, my name is I guess the most common in the world (maria), but it's pronounced differently in my country and US. I don't really expect English speakers to get it "correct". I work in an international setting, and I don't think most names are ever pronounced totally correctly.

[sweetwaterlane]

Maria is such a pretty name

[ltmsysf]

Idk if it is because English is not my main language but it doesn't sound that different to me.

My name is very difficult for english-speaking people to pronounce and they don't really try, especially americans lol I don't really care but i decided to adopt an English name for myself so that it's easier for people