08-12-2020, 07:04 PM
(08-12-2020, 06:33 PM)masterpanthera_t Wrote: Trust me, as someone who knows the samskrita pronunciation, and having spoken that word many times, it's "kuh muh LAH", not "comma lah". The word lotus has many words, and this particular one AFAIK, has never been pronounced that way. It's also the name of the doctor who handled my delivery, which, is just coincidental, but just another example of where I have heard that name being said.
I'm aware of her mother's origin and her visits to India as a child, but her life as an adult seems to indicate a strongly western, African American bent. Nothing wrong with that, and she chose to live out that part of her heritage, and given that she's a black woman and in America, I do not begrudge her choices. But, honestly, I don't see any cultural aspects of her life that resonate with Indian culture. I've said before that I'm not well versed in her history or background, and am totally willing to change my disposition given new information, but it seems her ties to any Indian culture have gone since the passing of her mother. I would say that if any cultural connections should really be emphasized here, it's her black/African American one, and anything else is a bit of political theater. Is she Indian, yes in the biological sense. I don't believe so, in any other sense.
Not going to lie, people pronounce and spell their names differently all the time. I find it ridiculous when it's done because it's someone's name and how they pronounce it is the right way for them. My last name can be pronounced several ways and I have had people try to tell me it's pronounced differently based on the Macedonian city, but because of my family's immigration path they pronounced it differently.
Anyway, trying to tell someone they pronounce they "don't know how to pronounce their own name" is a dick move.
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