Is it “Camel-uh” or “Cam-ahl-uh”?
Cum Allah
Careful that’s how we got the floods that one time…
Pres·i·dent /ˈprezəˌdent/
Eth·nic·Clean·ser /Ð-nik klėnzr/
You’re a moron.
Your father smelt of elderberries
Block’d
😱🤣
Genocidaire.
Neither! I also had this question. No emphasis on any part, karma-la.
I think it’s pronounced Kah-muh-lah
Yes. Also, I have no idea.
“Que Mala.”
Que Mala
Nyet
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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.
That’s an Indian name
No one is making fun. It’s not a common name and people want to make sure that pronounce it correctly.
What are you talking about? Nobody here is making fun of her name.
Harris
srsly
Comma-la (as she tells us to pronounce it), or even Com’la (as it is traditionally pronounced)
Commala? As in the pokemon Komala?
So it really is Komala Harris vs Trumpshoos
Isn’t the Pokemon’s name pronounced like coma + koala? Coma and comma are different.
🤷I’ve been pronouncing it as Ko-Ma-La without the emphasise of ow. I appreciate this post though, i’ve seen so many asian name being butchered by english speaking country it become annoying.
Ko-Ma-La without the emphasise of ow.
I’m not sure I follow. Coma would probably be “ko-ma”, like I’d suggested, whereas comma is something like “cah-ma”…but I’m not sure where the “ow” comes in
“Comma-la” unfortunately doesn’t help much for people without US accents lol (though of course people in the US are who the question and answer are most relevant to). On first reading – without the accent or something close to it – it implies “kom-uh-luh”, whereas with the accent it implies something more like “kah-muh-luh”, just based on how people pronounce “comma” differently.
It’s funny because the way you spelt it sounds like the first “don’t” of the video you linked. Americans in general seem to make a point of pronouncing things their way rather than how they should be. I don’t think it’s racism as much as it is laziness.
their way rather than how they should be.
Every language has different sounds. It has long been understood that languages will translate words/names into versions they can actually hear and pronounce. Sadly, some people mock or demean people who try to speak a non-native language and make errors in it. In the U.S. it used to be fairly common to mock Asians coming from a language with only one liquid consonant sound for their inability to differentiate between ‘r’ and ‘l’ sounds.
I know I can’t hear the difference in various Russian language vowels and while I can hear tones, I don’t know how I’d explain their pronunciation in an Anglicized name – or if it would be relevant.
While I appreciate that regional accents mean that non-U.S. citizens might not say “comma” the way it is heard in the U.S., I do expect that if a U.S. citizen tells me to pronounce their own name in a U.S. manner, then that is how it “should be” pronounced.
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!
Happy to help!
Oh, I shoulda linked to a first-hand source where she herself wrote “comma-la” as the pronunciation (no particular accent on syllables). It is in her book, and also towards the bottom of this piece has that excerpts from her book: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/book-excerpt-kamala-harris-truths-hold/story?id=60234101
kah-MALL-uh
The right mispronounces it that way intentionally.
As I’ve heard. Now we know better than to perpetuate it!
Comma-la
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.
Every word has stress. You probably mean the first phoneme is stressed. And the “rum” sound you’re looking for is called the “schwa”
Every word has stress.
In most Indian languages, most words are unstressed. There is a distinction between long and short syllables, but that comes from vowel length, not stress. A few words (like him-AA-la-ya) do have stress, but this is the exception and usually happens due to conjugation.
You probably mean the first phoneme is stressed.
No, kamala is unstressed.
And the “rum” sound you’re looking for is called the “schwa”
Yes.
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.
“Kamala”
I think it’s pronounced “Madam President”
Was wondering earlier, why not just President? Why add the “madam”?
As opposed to “Mr President” which seems common enough
So say we all.
Emphasis is on the first syllable, is how I’ve heard it.
Geno·cider Fas·cist
Careful you don’t cut yourself on all that edge
Mocking enablers of zionist ethnic cleansing is so edgy guys
