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[quote=Anonymous]I try really hard to pronounce people's names the way they pronounce them. I feel gunshy at times, though, particularly with Spanish names. Like I'm trying to make fun of their accent or something. So it's a balance of trying to be respectful without sounding like an ass. Having said that, I married an Egyptian. His surname is a bit difficult to pronounce, and it's pronounced differently than how the rest of the Arabic speaking world says the same name. They say "J" like a soft G, when folks from Cairo pronounce it like a hard G. Jamal is Gamal in Cairo, for example. So I have more trouble with native Arabic speakers mispronouncing it than I do with native English speakers. And I'm surely not going to try to correct them, since I'm not Arab or Egyptian. [/quote]
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