I can pronounce it despite never having studied Arabic. It’s called being vaguely receptive to the people and concepts around you.
It’s not even that hard, I’ve seen names that took effort for my English and some high school Spanish speaking brain to pronounce and that’s not one of them.
I mean when the only thing of value you have to offer to the job is a shorter name, what else would you advertise on?
Don’t worry, in a few more weeks you can just call him Mr. Senator
“hey voters, remember when racism was OK? Yeah me too. Vote for me.”
Guaranteed to work on us. I bet my dad loves this asshole.
Trump sure seems to like assholes a lot these days.
I don’t need to spell it, or pronounce it. I just need to recognize it on the ballot.
That’s because, like many American adults, this guy can only read at a fifth-grade level.
Pretty sure most 5th grader could read Abdul El Sayed right after the first time they’re told how to pronounce it.
I can spell “D” and I can spell “R” and I can spell “Fuck you Mike Rogers.”.
Remember when open racism would get you a ban from social media platforms?
Counter ad:
Mike Rogers? A name so generic it has definitely been the name of a pedophile. Are you sure it isn’t the same Mike Rogers?
Vote Abdul El-sayed
Aaand thats why americans only knowing english is a stereotype. The average person on earth speaks more than one language, its only in priviledged imperialist states like russia, usa, china and some poor monocultural countries that its normal to speak one language. Everywhere else you either learn em cause you need it, its prestige or because its good practice to be able to speak to others in their own language. There are many places in europe where knowing three or four languages are not unusual and lets not even talk about africa where there were entire trading tribes whos whole thing was knowing a bunch of languages.
China and Russia are both large diverse countries where different people speak different languages …… and the central government strongly encourages a common one. I wager you’re wrong about them
Yeah but theyre all marginalized and only people who grew up with it speak it. Theres a difference between learning a language youre not related to in any capacity just because its culturally relevant or something and learning a language because youre born with it. There are extremely few second language nganasan, ket, komi, erzya, etc speakers who arent also part of the ethnic group. Thats why people learning languages like cree, navajo, nuxalk, etc as second languages as white americans just because they can is such a beautiful thing. Youre ancestors have taken so much from them but youre trying to make it right. Point is, the vast majority of white, orthodox russians only speak russian and maybe english.
Ironically, America is also much more linguistically rich than that person who doesn’t live here is assuming.
The average person on earth speaks more than one language
8 Billion people on this planet, the average is absolutely not more than 1 language.
So if you have 10 people and just 1 of them speaks two languages and everyone else only speaks one lets do some math.
11 tongues/10 persons = 1.1 average languages per person
1.1 > 1
“The average person on earth speaks more than one language” is absolutely true purely mathematically
I would say that the vast majority of people speaks at least one language. Even americans usually speak a language. Now if you are talking about a secondary language, numbers are definitely lower.
That… That’s exactly what I’m saying? More than 1 would be 2 or more…
We should know on Lemmy that beliefs do not equate to facts.
Go Abdul. A vote for Abdul is finally a vote for the people!
I mean to be realistic you can’t expect the typical MAGA voter to have graduated 8th grade.
ɪɢɴᴏʀᴀɴᴄᴇ ɪꜱ ꜱᴛʀᴇɴɢᴛʜ
Slavery is Freedom
Mike Rawgers? Rahgers?
Could you spell that for me?
Row-ghers
My Crahgers
My Crotch Hurts? I think that’s how you spell it…
Miguel Roh-ghers.
Not only can I pronounce it, it sounds cool.
Especially nice when a native Arabic speaker says it.
I’m willing to bet he’s fine with just being called Abdul as well.
The “El-” sounds like a title.
