While Anglos and Westerners usually at least try to pronounce, say, Japanese names right, they don’t even bother with Slavic/Eastern European ones, especially the ones with Cyrillic letters in them, which means that they end up writing the names ending with ‘ić’, as ‘ich’, and pronounce it with K. For example, if the last name is ‘Jovanović’, they’ll write it ‘Jovanovich’ and pronounce it ‘Jovanovik’.

There are names such as Ivan, Bela or Vera, which get pronounced as Ajvan, Beyla or Veyra instead of properly and of course Stalin being pronounced as Stalin instead of Staljin.

Then DimitrescU, if I have to hear it pronounced without U one more time, I’m going to lose it… They keep saying it without U, which just makes it sound French almost as if it’s Dimitresque, how hard is it to pronounce it with U?

Then the last name Ćertić, they write it as Certic or Sertic, which is completely wrong.

And the one I saw most recently, Miloch or Milosh instead of Miloš, it’s one of the most common names in Serbia and I see it frequently written like that for some goddamn reason.

So, why is it so hard for Westoids to at least try to pronounce and write Eastern European names correctly while being able do it accurately for Japanese ones which are miles harder?

  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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    because of everything they did.

    DID YOU FIGHT THE TURKS OR NAZIS?

    Nothing you’ve listed was accomplished by you, or currently living people generally. You stand amid your ancestors achievements and are proclaiming they make you superior to to someone whose ancestors were criminals. You’re a nazi. Fuck off.

    • @Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      I didn’t get the chance to because they were kicked out century ago but as it looks right now, I will in the future along with Anglos and rest of their puppets. I said that Eastern Europe and entire Global South is superior, not me, I can proudly say that I’m extremely proud of my people and region, unlike Anglos who’s ancestors are slave owners, settlers, colonizers, war criminals, and not only distant ancestors, but actual living family members who did war crimes like a decade ago(and some of them continue to do so). While my great grandfather and his cousin fought against nazis and my godfather and cousins fought against Anglos and their puppets.

      So saying that you want to nuke entire countries, comparing people to apes etc is not a nazi thing, but rightfully saying that Global South is superior than colonizers totally is?