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Pronouncing Iran as "I ran" is also valid (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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I'll admit I was rather ignorant growing up and the first time I had a conversation with someone and I pronounced Iran as "I ran" everyone roasted the shit outta me and shut me down, which like fair whatever. But my point is the pronunciation is secondary if you get the concept; that's kinda the point of language and accents in general. If we have to pronounce every country or place as its residents call it then we should roast and ignore every English speaker that says "Germany" instead of Deutschland.

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[–] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

Speaking as a German:
"Germany" is different, as this is a competely different word, so you are fine.

But I would definitely judge you if you used the actual word "Deutschland" instead and competely mutilated it phonetically.

So, my take:

If your country developed its very own name for another country for some historic reason:
That's kinda cool, keep using it!

But if you are just using the country's official name:
At least make some genuine effort to get the pronounciation right.
Unless perhaps you have already been using it for centuries already, then it's part of the language and doesn't make sense to change again.

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