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Achmed, not Ahmed ...
Yes as far as the title on the Mozilla page goes but: Ahmed is pronounced Achmed (if your first langues is e.g. English). Among my Arab friends with that name the spelling that omits the 'c' is more common. Another common form is Ahmad which is still pronounced the same. The version with 'c' is one that contains a pronunciation hint for people whose native language is not Arabic (but probably English). As is the one…
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Yes as far as the title on the Mozilla page goes but: Ahmed is pronounced Achmed (if your first langues is e.g. English). Among my Arab friends with that name the spelling that omits the 'c' is more common. Another common form is Ahmad which is still pronounced the same. The version with 'c' is one that contains a pronunciation hint for people whose native language is not Arabic (but probably English). As is the one…
> The version with 'c' is one that contains a pronunciation hint for people whose native language is not Arabic (but probably English). What hint would that be? There's no 'c' sound in the Arabic version.
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> The version with 'c' is one that contains a pronunciation hint for people whose native language is not Arabic (but probably English). What hint would that be? There's no 'c' sound in the Arabic version.
Hint as in “Bach”
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pardon the side question, what is this trend of rewriting http in hxxp ? a reflex from platforms that don't allow sharing urls ?
I do this to defang the url to prevent unintentional clicks or automatic previewing when working and reporting on security events. Sometimes the habit bleeds over.
I might get into this habit too (and it's somehow funny how ~ergonomics can backfire)
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> The version with 'c' is one that contains a pronunciation hint for people whose native language is not Arabic (but probably English). What hint would that be? There's no 'c' sound in the Arabic version.
Hint as in “Bach”
... yes, this is a joke.
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“ch” like in Scottish English “loch” is closer to the “h” in “Ahmad” than the normal English “h"
No, it's not. It's a soft 'H' sound in Arabic, the same as in Muhammad. It's closer to the English 'H'. The Scottish 'ch' is a different letter entirely in Arabic and doesn't appear in this name.
It is indeed closer in terms of its place of articulation to English 'h' than either variant of the German 'ch' sound.
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It would have been funnier if they implied the dodgy CA was racist. If the joke itself is racist then a typical reaction would be to consider it less funny.
The ability to find humor in taboo topics is actually a sign of cognitive flexibility and social intelligence.
I had the same gut reaction as you. I was going to defend the joke as not being racist. Until I thought about it for a few minutes, and came to the conclusion that it's obviously racist. Whenever you have a gut reaction like that, you NEED to look deeper.
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No, it's not. It's a soft 'H' sound in Arabic, the same as in Muhammad. It's closer to the English 'H'. The Scottish 'ch' is a different letter entirely in Arabic and doesn't appear in this name.
This sound, to be precise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_pharyngeal_fricative It is indeed closer in terms of its place of articulation to English 'h' than either variant of the German 'ch' sound.
To my ears [ħ] sounds closer to [x] and [χ] than to [h] (even though the place of articulation is closer to [h]), but I'm sure it's different for people who (natively) speak a language with all three.
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It would have been funnier if they implied the dodgy CA was racist. If the joke itself is racist then a typical reaction would be to consider it less funny.
The ability to find humor in taboo topics is actually a sign of cognitive flexibility and social intelligence.