@human.1011: All due respect to the other creator! My original vid: @human1011 #linguistics #language #prescriptivism #pronunciation #countries

sharghzadeh: east-struck :

Thanks for the thoughtful response! What you describe, learned pronunciation, happened with the Arabic word "Layla" in Persian, which became Layli, because the Perso-Arabic alphabet mostly dropped the alef maqsura, my argument is that Layli is just now a Persian word, in the same way that the "wrong" country name pronunciations are new American English words, even if in the variety of English that is spoken in the country of origin, it is a wrong pronunciation. Fascinating discussion and sorry if I came off as harsh in the original video!

ALIMAYDIDTHAT :

nerdy ass drama 😭💖

yurrr🌱 :

things are getting heated in the linguistic community😭

Fartemis coward :

Mamdani solve this debate

Zagan the king president🇵🇰🧿 :

Furiosa :

In Africa we all say "epitohm"

cairis 🇨🇦 :

you can't be a linguist and argue for prescriptivism i said what i said

ismailalsomali1 :

I think you guys need to settle it in the ring

bro :

Dumb debate. We are NOT changing the pronunciation we use.

matt36272 :

Who THE FUCK says to mah toe

MadYjo :

Linguist drama

. :

only Americans say eye raq. majority of the world plus it's ppl say Iraq

Vanilla :

I love knowledge drama , keep it up 👍🏻

danithey :

You are literally proving his point, and negating your own point. The whole point of your original video is that, according to you, MANY people are saying it “wrong.” And obviously here you’re clarifying that when a large number of people say it a certain way, even if it’s not the “original” or “correct” pronunciation, it becomes and acceptable one based on how widely it’s used.

kisaragi :

this life is already difficult enough.. why he make it more difficult?

tumôns†rê :

I 💯 with you here!

TheJ0Man :

Most peaceful argument I’ve seen on the internet 💀

Jake Lynch626 :

Personally I would argue Niger is endo/exo because the sound you make to pronounce it isn’t present in English, it’s a borrowed sound. I think Dominica is a language difference and therefore acceptable. He uses tomato as an example, said differently in different countries, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that there is a wrong spelling especially given they speak a variation of English known as pigeon English, I therefore think it’s ok to not say it how he is telling us to

Bucky :

Healthy debates?.. on TikTok?

Ryan :

Deadass arguing tomato (toe-may-toe) tomato (toe-mah-toe)

. :

Only US citizens calls Iraq eye-raq, not most people.

WreckinWAP :

I honestly think it’s dumb that we translate names. If Germany is called deuchland the whole global should call them that.

I.M 🌱 :

Eye-raq is not acceptable yuck!

vansh वंश ونش :

boxing match please please please

bearly.holding.on :

Except the pronunciation of Niger that you labeled as “incorrect” is listed as the standard pronunciation in both Merriam-Webster and Oxford dictionaries. There is only one (the correct one) listed for “epitome”.