This is especially unforgivable in the case of recorded video or audio.
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I'm not seeing it explicitly in other comments so as one more point I think it matters the intent and tone. As written by OP the "I'm not even gonna try" sounds like an asshole blaming the person (likely the ethnicity or nationality). However, a good natured, self deprecating admission of an inability to properly pronounce a word and a desire not to embarrass the named person is admirable. "I'm sorry, that one is beyond me. Can you pronounce it for me so I can get it right? Thank you."
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my favorite solution to this is when they ask a native speaker to pronounce it and then just splice the audio into their own speech in the most obvious way possible.
keeps it real, shows the real pronunciation, and nobody has to hear the speaker struggle.
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Someone's when someone has a foreign last name and they have to announce it in as public setting, they see it on the paper and just say it loud "I'm not even going to try and pronounce that" instead of a modest attempt
Why is this not in c/badposting?