I know it's lib shit to get people to point out things on maps but what percentage of people who are concerned about Xinjiang know that it shares a fucking border with Afghanistan, and have considered whether these issues are connected in any way
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That's an extremely material consideration. You want me to consider someone's physical location on earth? As a liberal I just can't do that, tankie.
I have never been able to understand why Seppos have to pronounce "Uyghur" as "weegur". Just fucking say "ooy-goor". Or even "oy-gur". You can do it. It's not difficult.
Inb4 I'm called a prescriptivist, yes I know I'm a hypocrite but this is just a pet peeve
Listen to this clip of a Uyghur person saying "Uyghur" (it's the top link on that page, also the third) and tell me if it sounds more like "wee-gur" or "oy-gur".
The link isn't working for me.
Does this work: https://forvo.com/languages/ug/
Nope.
OK I downloaded it and uploaded it to soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/casskaydee/uyghur-as-pronounced-by-uyghur-person
So your point is basically that /uj/ is to your ears closer to /wi/ than to /oj/? It's not like I haven't heard Uyghurs say the word "Uyghur" before, I just thought that it was a bit silly to swap a vowel for a glide and a glide for a vowel. To me neither /wi/ nor /oj/ sound particularly close to /uj/, but of those two options I still favor /oj/ because it's the option that ends in a glide.
So your point is basically that /uj/ is to your ears closer to /wi/ than to /oj/?
Pretty much yeah. For the same reason the French "oui" sounds like "wee" to Anglophones and is usually reproduced that way to them.
French 'oui' literally is pronounced /wi/, though. That's what any French dictionary will tell you.
Do you say 'muy bueno' as 'mwee bwennow' too?