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re: Why do some people use a Spanish inflection when pronouncing Hispanic names?
Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:13 am to shutterspeed
Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:13 am to shutterspeed
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Knowing they would never use an inflection when pronouncing African American, Asian, Irish, Italian, etc names as well?
I came to this realization about a year ago. It's one of those things that once you start noticing it, you see how pervasive and strange it is and that leads to wondering how you didn't realize it earlier.
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:54 am to shutterspeed
Do you pronounce the Cajun names correctly? Or do you let yankee rednecks butcher your Cajun name without correcting them? Just because the name is spelled with English letters doesn't mean it's pronounced properly in English.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:58 am to mattz1122
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I remember Jim Hawthorne pronouncing Martinez as Martin-ez while calling a baseball game like he had never seen or heard the name before. He sounded retarded.
That's because the Martinez family in Ascension Parish pronounces it like that. Same for Ramirez pronouncing it Rammer-ez instead of Rah-MEER-ez. There's lots of old Spanish names here in extremely white families that don't want to be associated with being hispanic, because they aren't.
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