sharghzadeh: east-struck
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Wednesday 17 June 2026 01:17:06 GMT
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user75967567545 :
yeah im gonna pronounce it the way my accent pronounces it
2026-06-17 06:34:25
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deathfan69 :
as long as youre being understood and not being disrespectful, theres nothing incorrect about the way you speak
2026-06-17 02:40:43
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MinnieMouth :
If we really want to get linguistic about it, the word Iran is a shibboleth in American English; the way it’s pronounced tells you about what’s important to the person saying it, and that’s important and interesting enough. I also don’t think that anybody who speaks English really thinks that they are speaking the name of the country perfectly when they insist that people say [iˈɾan] instead of [ajˈɹæn]; the claim they are making is that in the dialect of English that people who are interested in multiculturalism speak, it IS DESCRIPTIVELY pronounced [iˈɾan]. Some analogies are that English speakers call the Capitol of Czechia “Prague” with a low vowel and not with an [æ], even though it’s pronounced Praha in Czech. It would be reasonable to correct someone for this, just like it would be reasonable to correct someone for pronouncing it [toɹtɪlʌ] instead of [toɹtijʌ], even though it’s not really either. Correcting how someone pronounces a loanword or a proper noun isn’t functionally about prescribing precision in the original language, but about sharing the political consequences of pronouncing a word too many permutations away from how people who care about multiculturalism pronounce the word in the language that borrowed the word.
2026-06-17 19:13:03
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Q6627272 :
It’s actually “Persia”
2026-06-17 19:24:55
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darren_excellence :
As it turns out language isn't prescriptive. It allows for accents and affects. If the transmitter and receiver agree on the message meaning, there's no "right wa y" to say anything.
2026-06-17 17:13:56
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pomegranate 🫧 :
why are u spreading misinformation?
2026-06-17 18:10:32
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erikmahl :
I never understood the comments about pronouncing it wrong. you're pronouncing it in a different language so it will be different. just because it's spelled the same way doesn't mean it needs to be pronounced the same way
2026-06-17 13:08:58
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یاسر🪼 :
As a afghan I can confirm that!
2026-06-17 01:45:32
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NekePle :
all I hear is
2026-06-17 17:37:22
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Arta and Arsha :
I ran out of beer, and the struggle Is real
2026-06-17 19:10:59
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shruti :
Persia
2026-06-17 09:33:28
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🇮🇱's end is near :
I didn't know this, thank you
2026-06-17 04:13:42
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Boban Inamorato :
The idea that there is only one eternally “correct” pronunciation of a word, and that all other pronunciations are wrong, is not how languages actually work. Languages change over time, and different dialects often preserve older pronunciations while also developing new ones. The name Iran is no exception. In modern Standard Persian, the common pronunciation is the one used by the vast majority of speakers in Iran today. In some Persian-speaking regions, including parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan, different pronunciations may exist. However, the existence of an older or regional pronunciation does not automatically make every other pronunciation “wrong.” If age alone determined correctness, then much of modern Persian would have to be considered incorrect, because Persian has changed significantly over the last thousand years in its vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. Languages are living systems, not museum exhibits frozen in time. Furthermore, citing Ferdowsi does not settle the matter. We do not possess audio recordings from the 10th or 11th century, so nobody knows with absolute certainty how Ferdowsi himself pronounced every word. Linguists can reconstruct earlier pronunciations based on historical evidence, but reconstruction is not the same thing as having direct recordings. From a linguistic perspective, a pronunciation is not correct simply because it is older. What matters is whether it is accepted and understood by a community of native speakers. Therefore, the modern pronunciation of Iran used by contemporary Persian speakers is perfectly valid, while regional and historical pronunciations are also part of the natural diversity and evolution of the Persian language.
2026-06-17 17:37:05
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🇵🇱i_nah_i[⚓️]OWP44 :
its persia not iran
2026-06-17 16:42:45
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Maruf as Sandalbari معروف :
In Urdu it tends to be pronounced as “I-ran” (like the “a” in barn)
2026-06-17 09:42:33
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zan :
In kurdish we say it like that too!
2026-06-17 10:56:24
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J :
But aren't the Tajik and Dari dialects, not just more conservative, but from the Eastern branch of the dialect spectrum? Your general point about there not being a monolithic correct pronunciation obviously stands, I just don't know that the Tajik example is as strong as you're presenting.
2026-06-17 03:34:56
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cowper75 :
I didn't know left and right wing say it different didn't think that was a thing.
2026-06-17 17:13:18
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𐎡𐎶𐎠𐎾 :
This always confused me its spelled ایران not یران so it should be pronounced ēran not ee-ran right?
2026-06-17 08:27:14
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𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰 :
In uzbek its also Eron pronounced like that
2026-06-17 08:35:52
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🔻MIRI :
Ay-rahn got it 🙌🏼
2026-06-17 13:48:58
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𐭯𐭥𐭪𐭥𐭮𐭲𐭦𐭿 :
nice
2026-06-17 01:25:42
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Jordan Kay :
Thank you!
2026-06-17 12:10:16
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mac. :
I learn linguistic and this is very fascinating to watch
2026-06-17 08:48:48
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Richard Rogers702 :
Very good discussion. 👍 I agree. It’s nice to try to approximate a country’s preferred pronunciation if there’s some wiggle room, but accents exist, and telling people their accent is wrong is prescriptivist and (IMO) counterproductive.
2026-06-17 18:46:41
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