Personal pronouns on social media

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Yeah, There's a slight rolling of the R that can also be extremely helpful. You can tell when my mother is really angry when she puts seven Rs in "Bastard". A lot of this should apply to welsh speakers as well, if only because having a second language from an early age makes you automatically aware that there is more than one way of saying certain sounds so when you encounter an unfamiliar one you're a bit more relaxed about getting it right.

[Gangster Octopus]

Say Reims.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

listening to a pronunciation video, that's precisely the sort of R I'm talking about.

[diggedy derek]

Not only does finnish have the gender-neutral "han", but it's not uncommon to sometimes refer to people as it, "se", at least informally, from what I understand.

[Muukalainen]

Not only does finnish have the gender-neutral "han", but it's not uncommon to sometimes refer to people as it, "se", at least informally, from what I understand.

I would say that usage of se instead of h?n in everyday spoken language is rife, at least here in the north. My understanding is that h?n was only adopted as the formal pronoun in favour of the widely spoken se comparatively (don't ask, I don't know) recently. It exclusively refers to people: even a much loved pet dog, for example, is only ever referred to using se.

[Guy Profumo]

I would have thought that the cultural ubiquity of Superman would have taught people how to pronounce her name.

Or Family Guy?

[Guy Profumo]

listening to a pronunciation video, that's precisely the sort of R I'm talking about.

But how does he pronounce the name of the capital city of the United Kingdom?

(Or the United Kingdom for that matter?)

Do you use anglicised pronunciations for famous locations, and the local ones for the less well known?

(Rory McGrath has a fatuous discourse on this on his pronunciation of the capital of China, given the old form was based on a largely wilful misinterpretation of what Europeans were told)