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  • #1

    How bad do people pronounce your name?

    Being blessed with strong muslim/afghan names always comes at the expense of having people butcher the name. so how bad has it been for you guys?

    being named osman, in my "professional" life i am oz-men. "hey like donny osmond, right?" says some random son of a bitch who i am working with, i say no but by then my patience is gone and i am like whatever. interestingly enough, some of the mexicans i work with ask me more about the name and i go into the ottoman empire and the caliphs lol

    the ali's, omars, and mo's have it easy but the osman's have to hear their beautiful name butchered, its like nails on a chalkboard.
    There are people today who think that admitting God’s absolute greatness decreases the value and importance of humans in the creation, as if God and mankind are rivals competing in greatness and power. Meanwhile I feel that whenever our perception of God’s greatness increases, with it we become greater, because we are the creation of a great God.

    Sayyid Qutb
    Tags: bad, people, pronounce
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    Osman is the turkish version of 'Uthman.

    Why do you have a turkish name ?

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    • #3
      My peers and teachers and have always pronounced my name as Ockmal even though its correctly pronounced as "Akmal." It never really irritated me that much because them being kaffirs and all, had never of such a unique Muslim name for it to be pronounced correctly on the first try.

      I remember this deluded Guyanese guy who I used to work with would pronounce it as "akbal" or "Iqbal" even though I told the idiot countless times it was Akmal. Seriously how do you miss pronounce a 5 letter name? I think he was doing it on purpose to piss me off (even though I didn't care) or he was just stupid lol.
      Last edited by Kushan Prince; 04-26-2013, 05:29 PM.
      "Revenge is a dish best served cold".

      -Old Pashtun proverb




      "My Pashtun Pride i will not hide!"

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Al Hanif View Post
        Osman is the turkish version of 'Uthman.

        Why do you have a turkish name ?

        i guess the turkish/persian influence on afghans was stronger than the arab one. not to mention that outside of arabic speaking societies, osman is pretty popular probably because of pronounciation. usman/osman does well in africa too.
        There are people today who think that admitting God’s absolute greatness decreases the value and importance of humans in the creation, as if God and mankind are rivals competing in greatness and power. Meanwhile I feel that whenever our perception of God’s greatness increases, with it we become greater, because we are the creation of a great God.

        Sayyid Qutb

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Al Hanif View Post
          Osman is the turkish version of 'Uthman.

          Why do you have a turkish name ?
          The phoneme /θ/ does not exist in Pashto, Farsi, Urdu etc. Expect Uthman to be pronounced Usman/Osman in these languages.

          @Randolph - have you heard how many 'Khan's mispronounce their own names? I find it near unforgivable when people who should know better cannot say/are embarrassed to say خ in خان so that what you get is 'Caan'. Makes your blood boil.

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          • #6
            My friends used to pronounce my name as karin and then everyone started calling me that
            When one person messes up ur name everyone else starts to know u by that name and its understandable for a while but then it just gets on your nerves cuz u keep trying to correct them but they still dont get it

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            • #7
              leema, lama, lie ma.. the lie ma one came from a pashtun.

              "To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."





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              • #8
                i hate when people call me jamila

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                • #9
                  Well Adam is pretty easy to say, Somalis due tend to call me "Edham" though
                  Originally posted by Elite Pakhtun
                  I still remember those pieces of garbage asking US presidents, when they visit, stuff like "why can't we (India) teach them (Pakistan) a lesson?". Morr kus de ughaym.. f*cking indiot garbage. I f*cking hate them so f*cking much. Afkoonis jumping on indiot d*ck is f*cking annoying too.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by DaZahroJaam. View Post
                    leema, lama, lie ma.. the lie ma one came from a pashtun.
                    Lemon
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                    *You cannot climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets*

                    Originally posted by Karachi
                    like I said, there was only one reason I pretended to be pathan, for a girl, who was from Afghan forums and also registered here

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                    • #11
                      When it comes to names, I think the Chinese have it worst. They have given up, and now have secondary names. They will tell their name is Sean, mean while it's some combination of X and Z.
                      Even Adobe Photoshop can't change me.

                      A line[Durrand line] of hatred that raised a wall between the two brothers -Hamid Karzai

                      For generations, the Hindus of India prayed for deliverance from "the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan."


                      The men of Kábul and Khilj also went home; and whenever they were questioned about the Musulmáns of the Kohistán (the mountains), and how matters stood there, they said, "Don't call it Kohistán, but Afghánistán; for there is nothing there but Afgháns and disturbances." Thus it is clear that for this reason the people of the country call their home in their own language Afghánistán, and themselves Afgháns. The people of India call them Patán; but the reason for this is not known. But it occurs to me, that when, under the rule of Muhammadan sovereigns, Musulmáns first came to the city of Patná, and dwelt there, the people of India (for that reason) called them Patáns—but God knows!

                      -Ferishta, 1560–1620

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Pisho View Post
                        i hate when people call me jamila
                        Is that you're name?
                        "Revenge is a dish best served cold".

                        -Old Pashtun proverb




                        "My Pashtun Pride i will not hide!"

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                        • #13
                          My egyption teacher used to call me gawad.

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                          • #14
                            No it's not it's jalila

                            But jamila pisses me off lol

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                            • #15
                              ^Jalila is a very pretty name. Yep, quite pretty, I must say. Lol..
                              "Do not waste water even if you were at a running stream."-Prophet Muhammad (SAW)

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