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Siegfried ,

Well, I understand why he would feel like a small man running against a freaking hindu goddess

Not being an american*, i know nothing about her, but she does have a pretty strong and cool name.

todd_bonzalez ,

Man, I really didn’t realize how bad people were butchering her name on purpose.

I’ve seen plenty of clarification on the subtleties of “kama-la” (correct) vs. “ka-ma-la” (incorrect) vs. “ka-mala” (incorrect), which helped me get her name right back during the 2020 primaries.

But these racist fucks are pronouncing it like “camel-ah”, “karma-la”, or just saying her name with a weird fake pseudo-african dialect.

doodledup ,

Am I the only one that thinks Kamala is a beautiful name? It’s also not a name you hear every day.

TheBat ,
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Tfw you don’t get what’s so confusing about pronounciation of कमला. It’s so simple.

lobut ,

Can someone explain what this statement is supposed to be?

xycu ,

कमल is the word kamala written in Sanskrit.

lobut ,

Alright, I know you’re not OP but is the person implying that Kamala is difficult because it has Sanskrit origins?

TheBat ,
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No, I’m saying it’s pretty simple. Those are just basic letters.

Compare that to Donald’s name in devanagari script: डोनाल्ड

Edit: And also devanagari (along with most Indian script) is phonetic. What you say is what you write. There’s no confusion about pronunciation of letters no matter which word they’re in.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I’d say the problem begins with the fact that almost no one in the U.S. reads Sanskrit.

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t worry, Kamala is going to fix that. Soon English will be outlawed. (At least that’s what Faux News thinks, right?)

eran_morad ,

I think she’s gonna wreck the traitor bitch.

peopleproblems ,

I don’t get it. I mean shit, probably I pronounce it wrong, but then so does every other Minnesotan.

Why are they trying to be dumber than they are? That makes it like less weaponized stupidity and more… The stupidity that gets you in detention?

wildncrazyguy138 ,

Kamala Kamala Kamala Kamala
For president
She’s got my vote
She’s got my voooooote!

Protoknuckles ,

I want her to treat this as if he is doing it on accident, and correct him like he is a little child. Really humiliate him.

Tower ,

Yup. Then, when he’s still mispronouncing it, pivot to him not being able to remember how to pronounce it correctly being another sign of his mental faculties failing.

Protoknuckles ,

Exactly. “Oh sweetie, are you having trouble remembering?”

ByteOnBikes ,

We bullied a boomer who kept doing that at work.

Old fart kept mispronouncing staff member’s names thinking it was funny and workplace suddenly went passive aggressive on him.

Apytele ,

…I’m on her side and I actually had no idea it was supposed to be pronounced that way. I’ve pretty much only interacted with her name textually; I guess I just don’t keep up with political media enough. I’ve also got an uncommon name that people rarely pronounce correctly the first time but also I’m white so I’ve never had anyone be anything but apologetic about it.

NineMileTower ,

Comma Luh not Kuh Mah Lah

Peppycito ,

I guess I’ve also been saying it wrong, having read it much more than I’ve heard it. I honestly haven’t been paying much attention.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Yeah but trump has a media team and she is the republicans opponent. They would or should know the correct pronunciation.

modifier ,

,la

NoSpotOfGround ,

Her name is a nod to her Indian heritage on her mother’s side and in her 2019 memoir, Harris wrote that she pronounced it “Comma-la” and that it means “lotus flower.” […] Still, Trump continues to say “Kah-MAH-la.”

I was sure this was going to be the other way around. Strange and less bad than I expected. It’s mostly just an accent thing, not a change in sounds.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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But, unlike you, Trump has heard it many times. He knows how to pronounce it properly, he just won’t because he’s a racist.

dogsnest ,
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When asked why, the Trump campaign, in a statement to ABC News, said “race and gender have nothing to do with why Kamala Harris is the most unpopular Vice President in history.”

Citation, motherfuckers?

Wilzax ,

You kind of need to start assuming that anything coming out of his mouth is a lie. They are right less than 50% of the time.

JeeBaiChow ,

The republican presidential nominee, ladies and gentlemen! Hope they are proud of this idiot.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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The sad part is, they are.

WatDabney ,

All the way through this ordeal of Biden possibly, then actually, stepping down, I’ve been sort of lukewarm about the idea of Harris replacing him for one and only one reason - because I assumed that, since she’s the VP and the obvious first choice for a replacement, the Trump campaign would already have a complete hate campaign against her primed and ready to go, so could potentially catch her and the Dems flat-footed.

It’s astonishing how wrong I was.

stoly ,

They have been making it up as they go since 2015. There’s no real plan other than win.

leadore ,
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Which is why the Heritage Foundation made sure to spell out a 900-page plan this time.

NineMileTower ,

Honestly, I think it’s because they underestimate black people and women. They would never have thought democrats would run a black woman, because they wouldn’t.

And it’s not like Sleepy Joe was a brilliant name either, it just stuck for the flag buying morons.

magnetosphere ,
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All he’s doing is showing everyone how petty, spiteful, and bigoted he is - which is unintentionally honest of him.

YurkshireLad ,

The guy whose surname is a synonym for “fart”…

Boozilla ,
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Typical elementary schoolyard bully boy shit by Drumpf. Sadly his cult loves that type of low-hanging rotten fruit.

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