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Is it “Camel-uh” or “Cam-ahl-uh”?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pres·i·dent /ˈprezəˌdent/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think it's pronounced "Madam President"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

So say we all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was wondering earlier, why not just President? Why add the "madam"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

As opposed to "Mr President" which seems common enough

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you for this. I’ve heard her name mispronounced so often that I genuinely thought kah-MALL-uh was correct. Whoops! Comma-la it is!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Obama, Obamala, 'bamala, Kamala

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's one of the cleverest pronunciation guides I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Whoa Black Betty, 'bamala

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh shit here come the conspiracy theories now....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks Obamala.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

However she pronounces it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

KAH-muh-luh HAER-is

Kamala (/ˈkɑːmələ/) Harris (/ˈhærɪs/)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Right right right

and that would be ... ?


Oh, I found the video on her Youtube channel literally addressing this question back in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVGfzbP7WBY

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact.

In Finnish "kamala" means "awful".

We are gonna have endless dad jokes with this one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

In British English, Trump means (1) the sound an elephant makes or (2) a fart, particularly a noisy one. If you trump your own horn it means you're boastful and think of yourself higher than other people do.

President Trump = President Fart.
Still funny after all these years, despite the looming fascism.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I pronounce it like the toki pona word "kalama"

No, i do not swap "la" and "ma"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anyone have the IPA pronunciation?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

ML making fun of a Black woman's name. I wish I was surprised, but I'm not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I think it's an honest question, which is a respectful thing to ask if you don't know. I myself haven't been sure, because I've heard it pronounced multiple different ways even by news pundits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

No one is making fun. It’s not a common name and people want to make sure that pronounce it correctly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

What are you talking about? Nobody here is making fun of her name.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Indian (Sanskrit) name is pronounced ka-ma-laa (meaning lotus), with no stress, and no gap in between the syllables. The first two 'a's are pronounced like the 'u' in rum, while the last is the same sound but longer (so like the 'a' in calm).

The US Presidential candidate's name is pronounced the way she likes, which in this case is closer to ko-ma-laa.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every word has stress. You probably mean the first phoneme is stressed. And the "rum" sound you're looking for is called the "schwa"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not in classical Sanskrit. Vedic Sanskrit had pitch accent, which had been lost by the classical Sanskrit era. English has stress accent. But many languages do not have stress accent, and either have pitch accent or syllables are not accented at all.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Careful you don't cut yourself on all that edge

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