Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161211174540/@comment-26018514-20161219160549

KNN005 wrote: Kokayi.

But the point is, if someone is asking another person what they're name is and now to say it. You don't jump into the conversation and pull some elitist shit say "Well actually, that's not the right what to say it."

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To be fair, there are likely quite a few ways to pronounce almost any African name, depending on the exact location, unless your mother went to the exact root community(or your families oral tradition is unbroken) the name originated in and learned it there she likely wouldn't know the original pronunciation.

That said, the interesting thing about names is that the only ones whose pronunciation matters, is yours and your parents, even if you pronounce it "wrong" it still retains its meaning in the way that words with latin roots do, and you aren't going to suddenly change how you pronounce it.