Charles Barkley to OG Anunoby: “What is your real name?”
.Anunoby answers: “Ogugua”.
Barkley tries to pronounce it correctly.
I swear I am pronouncing a Nigerian name correctly and my friend will tell me I’m wrong. Asian names, I am pronouncing it 100% wrong, but they’ll tell me I’m saying it correctly.
We kinda just give up on you guys getting it right
All asians btw. I haven’t had a single asian tell me I’m fucking up their name. Even viets..
Probably because every single person they meet gets it wrong and they just stop giving af at some point đ€Ł
As someone with a decently hard to say name, this is it. Call me what ya wanna call me idgaf anymore, I’ll correct when it’s important
This does frustrate me on a minor level. I want to genuinely put in the effort to get people’s names right and being let off the hook does me no favors. I do get it though, still just a minor frustration.
Itâs literally impossible for people make certain sounds in their non native language, so why bother, especially if itâs like your Starbucks barista calling out your order.
If itâs your actual friend then you can give it a try but itâs still a little pointless. Itâs why people always have accents. Your brain no longer works that way after the age of 10
Yea, I remember someone really trying to get me to say a few Tagalog words correctlyâa much easier language than many othersâand I was just like, âIâm so sorry, but my brain/mouth canâtâ
I wouldn’t say impossible, just extremely difficult. I actually was a linguistics during my active duty time so I know the struggle. Still nice to try to live up to the challenge.
It for sure isn’t impossible, but if you don’t have a physical description of what your mouthparts are supposed to do a lot of times you won’t be able. And most speakers of every language don’t actually know what their mouthparts are doing when they speak bc it’s all unconscious so most people can’t really help you
What that mouth do tho
Unless you are a tonal language speaker, it’s really difficult to get it perfect. I usually settle for good enough when I see that the other side tried.
I think as long as you’re respecting the person and you’re trying it’s fine. Different languages use different mouth sounds it’s just part of the human experience.
Oh shit, didnât know that was a big concern for some. Iâm Viet but I donât usually care about it, maybe Iâll try to help people pronounce correctly next time.
Yeah but from the perspective of someone with a name that people struggle with, you really do just stop caring. It’s not so much that they aren’t correcting you in order to be polite, but to save themselves the hassle. It really gets tiring explaining how to pronounce your name after the 1000th time
Yeah, I go by my initials and people always get them wrong. I just tell people to toss any two letters out there and Iâll probably respond. Of course I prefer if people get it right, but itâs not that important to me.
Bowel When? Is that you?
I consistently get my name spelled wrong in emails so itâs a lost cause. My name is in the email (firstname.lastname @company.ca) and itâs in my email signatureâŠ
This is why I have an English pronunciation and a native one. My first name is a very common name but with 1 letter that’s not normally there.
So like imagine the name “Alex” but maybe it’s spelled “Ailex”, it’s close enough to just being “Alex” that I would just have people use the common way to say it. If people press further I’ll give them the real way to say it but typically nobody cares to use the real version once they know it.
Even better if you can shorten your name to an American nickname, like in the example you could use “Al”
Oh and something mildly interesting is that Mexicans here in america can pronounce my name perfectly even though I’m from the balkans. Their language is perfectly suited to say it, I’m guessing because they’re both Latin based.
Viets know better than to correct you. Itâs a tonal language, and the MOST tonal language of them all, so itâs almost completely opposite of English in the function of its tones.
Would be completely exhausting trying to teach someone how to pronounce a Vietnamese name unless they were committed to learning the tonal aspect of the name as well.
Not sure if Nigerian languages have tones, but I can imagine a similar problem occurs if that is the case.
they absolutely do
there is a certain emphasis to nigerian names in either Yoruba or Igbo that if you arent used to enunciating the language, you literally cannot make the sound needed to say it right.
Sounds about right.
Iâm white and learned Vietnamese, and the same issue happened for anyone else I knew who tried learning Vietnamese as an English speaker. In addition to tones, there are completely new/different vowels, and some of the words have consonants in places we arenât used to.
For example, the most common last name in all of Vietnam: Nguyá» n.
Itâs not Wynn. Itâs not Knee Goo Yen.
If you take the NG sound from the end of âing,â like in âlearning,â slap it onto the beginning of a word instead of the end, add an âooâ as in âbooâ sound, then add an âeenâ as in âkeenâ sound, then you get Ngoo een. Great. Youâre still only half way there lmao. You have to get the tone right. And depending on if the person is from Northern Vietnam or Southern Vietnam, the tone changes slightly.
That is literally the most common surname in all of Vietnam. And nobody can say it right, itâs just too hard for English speakers⊠And thatâs why Viets will just accept âWynnâ or âKnee Goo Yenâ lol, same goes for most other Vietnamese names.
that fascinating, especially since it actually sounds very similar actually to some nigerian names that start with ng or nn, like ngozi or nneka, most non nigerian people trying to say it would say it like in-gozi or in-neka respectively, but the real pronounciation incorporates more tones that doesnt really translate to just phonetic spelling.
Speaking of, in the WNBA they rarely say Nneka Ogwumikes name correctly lol
Lot of Nigerian names that are pronounced incorrectly in the pro leagues. From Josh Okogie to Ayo Dosunmu. Funny enough after his big game in the playoffs this year, I heard the white American ESPN anchor that night pronounce Ayo correctly whereas Chiney Ogwumike pronounced it incorrectly. That was a shock since Chiney is usually in tune with the names. Same thing with the ones in the NFL but no pro sports player has ever infuriated me the way Jordan Ibe did years ago with Liverpool FC. The one pro athlete with the absolute EASIEST last name to teach others to pronounce- IBE like Ebay, and instead that goat was telling people his last name is Ibe like Ay-b. SMH.
i have massive respect to announcers who earnestly try to pronounce names correctly. my estimation of an announcer plummets when they can’t be bothered to even try correctly pronouncing a name which is literally their job to do.
this is an epidemic with Yugoslavian names; I cringe every time I hear them mispronounce Jokic and Doncic.
Yup itâs âNeckuh Ohgummikayâ đ
this is so fascinating ty for explaining! languages can be so intricate it’s incredibleÂ
Every Asian gave up by 1st grade.
So, you even introduce yourself with the incorrect pronunciation lol.
I still appreciated it when teachers/people that I meet for the first make an honest effort to try pronouncing my last name (or at least start off with “I may be pronouncing this incorrectly but___”) and after that, I’d tell them how to pronounce it phonetically
Ya, I always appreciated that.
I do think kids have it far better now where people attempt to pronounce your name correctly and try to get it right.
I donât expect any English speakers to get my Korean name correct. Every single consonant and vowel, as well as the syllable structure itself, doesnât exist in English. Every Lee or Kim youâve ever met is not actually a Lee or a Kim. We gave up on yâall long before you ever tried pronouncing our names. When you start trying, it almost sounds like youâre mocking us.
Alright letâs not get too crazy with Korean gatekeeping. Iâve been married to a Korean for 10 years and have been with her for like 20+. I majored in Chinese in college and I love studying languages so I feel like Iâm qualified to say that Korean is really not difficult. Like yeah thereâs some sound blending but trying to be like oh itâs ghim instead of Kim is silly. Lee does sound like Lee unless youâre trying to say it needs to have the lr sound in it like kalbi, which I have never heard when hearing Lee out loud. It takes about 15 minutes to learn the alphabet and like another hour to learn about the sound exceptions when reading words. So if someone is pronouncing a Korean word wrong, simply tell them and theyâll fix it.
Yea i know nothing about Chinese but just by hearing it and looking at the writing it i’d best its one of the hardest languages to learn
Dude itâs insane to learn as a foreigner. Absolutely the hardest and least intuitive language I studied. Just an absolute ton of rote memorization. The only time I honestly was halfway decent in it was when I lived in china for a bit. Iâve basically lost it completely by now.
As a foreigner (Chinese-Canadian) learning Korean, I agree. It’s always hard to pronounce things like a native speaker, but I wouldn’t say Korean pronunciation is super difficult (relative to other languages). And yes, Lee is easier than the other surnames to say (but I believe most Koreans pronounce it more like the letter ‘E’ or maybe sometimes slightly with a Y sound, like “Yi”. There’s some explanation for why we spell it with an “L” in English but I forgot it lol - iirc there’s no L sound at all).
But thatâs where it seems like the dude responding to me thought I was gatekeeping Korean pronunciation when I was suggesting that the moment you ask somebodyâs name is not the time when youâll learn how to learn entire new sounds that donât exist in your native language, so we let a wide variety of sounds be considered acceptable. People say Korean pronunciation is not that hard but the average English (or Chinese) speaker often struggles with even basic sounds like oh or ae because most donât know how to pronounce flat, non-diphthong pure vowels that make up Korean. And youâre not going to magically pronounce my name, Ho Seung, with a pure oh, soft S, and a vowel-less eung if youâre only an English speaker. And thatâs completely ok. I donât need to hear an English speaker call me a ho repeatedly while I tell you that your vowel is not pure enough. Koreans largely just accept that if itâs in the ballpark, we let it slide because we appreciate that you tried.
Lee sounds like Lee? Lee is pronounced “Ee” in Korean.
Lee doesnât sound like Lee at all, so stop trying to flex on an actual Korean for Reddit points. It doesnât even have a consonant. Itâs just Ee.
Koreans also can’t pronounce a bunch of English names correctly. I have a common English name and no Korean ive ever met has got it right. Spanish speakers also can’t pronounce my name correctly, so I just give them the Spanish equivalent name and move on.
It’s not fair to expect speakers of other languages to be able to replicate sounds and syllables that don’t exist in their language.
You can easily have a pleasant conversation with someone and teach them how to pronounce your name in 30 seconds, or you can take your approach and just be pessimistic. I have a name that people get wrong often, I just easily correct them. Itâs really not the end of the world.
Even viets..
Only true, if you’re not friends with them, if you are, they will tell you its 100% wrong, no matter how you intonate it.
I can’t remember how often my friends family and I shit talked eachother about pronounciation, as they are ass pronouncing my slavic name as well.
Iâm Viet and Iâm 100% sure youâre pronouncing it wrong 100% of the time. Itâs a tonal language.
Lmaoo it’s the thought that counts. But as an Asian myself, I haven’t met an American that has pronounced my name correctly as well haha
OH! Let me pick your brain. So I went through a big New Japan Pro Wrestling phase and a lot of their shows back then were only in Japanese but I watched dozens of hours. So I heard the correct pronunciation of many names. However, I know how American announcers would say it because of listening to the shows that had them. It’s subtle because they’re pros, but it is different. I feel weird talking like I normally talk and then getting to a Japanese name and switching to a flourish, lol. Like I’d be trying too hard. Take Hiroku. Japanese announcers kind of skip the H to an American ear, but American announcers don’t. An eero-koo rather than heer-ohkoo. No idea what would actually be preferred, but going to Japan for the first time in a few months and would love to not sound like an ass.
Edit - not trying to assume you’re Japanese because you’re Asian, it’s just the only touchstone I have for repeatedly hearing Asian pronunciation of Asian names.
I’m half japanese with a jp name so it’s fine haha i’ll use your example, which I’m assuming is hirooki goto. Western people would pronounce it “He-ROW-ki” which is fine, but it would be appreciated if pronounced “EE-Ruu-Ki”.
I noticed Americans tend to enunciate the wrong syllable when saying Asian names. Kinda like how the NBA pronounces Jokic name as “Knee-KOW-la” instead of “NEE-koh-lah”. It’s just Nicholas without the S.
You won’t sound like an ass in Japan as long as you make the effort to say their names properly. You’re good bro hahaha
Boy, you’re giving me far too much credit, lol, but thank you for being nice. Out drinking and just completely forgot Hiromu’s name. Was a huge Takahashi fan in those days, but Goto rocks as well.
It’s not subtle, it’s pretty distinct due to English being stress based. Hence why English speakers emphasize rooo part of Hiroku. Japanese speakers absolutely pronounce the H btw.
It’s also just kinda stupid to be using the term asian pronunciation. It means absolutely nothing.
Yeah i mean same with native English peoples names . My names is rick and i get reak, rickuh, etc. I just give em the thumbs up. I think alot of native English speaking ppl are use to it as alot of people immigrate here, happens often and not really worth the correction
Yea man I’m Taiwanese and I just understand people can’t pronounce tonal languages and it’s perfectly ok.
As an Asian with Nigerian friends, this statement is certified true.
Those tonal languages can be tricky. If your voice doesn’t drop the right way on the u sound it’s all wrong and you’ve just insulted someone.
Yeah I know it matters to pronounce a name correctly but sometimes it has to be specific depending on the language and culture
Like even just in America you could find the name âCharles Barkleyâ pronounced 6 different waysâŠ. But he wouldnât care if it was âChawles Bawkleyâ or âCharrles Barrrkleyâ
I like that OG gave the proper pronunciation but chuck canât even get American names correct so id give him credit for being actually close with Ogugua
Some languages are super strict with the tones so if you say it slightly off it sounds like a different meaning.
You’re saying it “right” as in you’re mispronouncing in the way we expect you to lol
Most Chinese immigrants I have met will have their real name and then their English name they tell their white friends.
many times they’ll have an english name very close to their chinese name, so say “jiaqi” becomes jacky, or “kaiwen” becomes kevin or “hansen” becomes hansen.
am asian, can confirm.
If you pronounce my last name as it is spelled on govt issued ID, it’ll sound like another name, but nothing like the actual native pronunciation. I like the anglicized, butchered version last name, and most of my friends call me that anyways.
One time I worked a job where HR mandated everyone had to say my last name “correctly”, despite me begging them to use the butchered version. HR was having none of that though, told me they were an inclusive workplace and will respect my culture.
will respect my culture
but not you
brah this sounds like a portlandia episode
And then there’s the Filipinos were names vary from Carlo Francisco de la Peña to simpler ones like ‘Boy’ and European variants be like Sigismundo and Eleanora moving on to then frequent Biblical ones Jacob, Mary, Joshua, Hannah, and Rachel, and having grandchildren, with xyz consonants such as Xyrelle, Yzabelle, Xander, Bryx and Axel. Don’t forget the younger gen who are fans of K-pop BTS naming their children Tae-hyung/Tae, Jimin/Jhaymin, Jungkoook which is less conservative compared to when they are naming them after BLACKPINK even before their popularity already have multiple Filipinos with Jennie, Lisa and Rose which are common with Princess and Angel names.
Bruh, I don’t care how many times you try to recite back a Nigerian’s name, they’re gonna tell you your saying it wrong, lol
Yeah with âBarkley tried to pronounce it correctlyâ I was expecting something completely wrong but I had a similar reaction he did lol. I thought he was pretty close
Chuck went âOh-GEW-gwaâ (like the word âgoopâ) when OG said it âOh-GUGH-gwaâ (like the word âgoodâ)
This reminds me of the GO-rilla/GUER-rilla bit from Captain Ron.
“There are no Gorillas in the Caribbean!!”
“Well yeah there is, boss.”
Time for some Gorilla Warfare
To be fair he is southern and slurs his words so this is about as close as he gets to pronouncing anything right.
Phonetic subtleties between languages or dialects are really hard sometimes. I can’t hear the difference here but clearly OG can. Goes both ways though, a native Japanese speaker would probably have a hard time with my name.
I speak Cantonese and I mess up the tones on occasion. A slight inflection can have a word like light sound like chair
I had a Korean classmate in high school, and he spent like an hour trying to get us to be able to hear the difference between their “g” sound and a different sound that is somewhere between English’s “g” and “k” sounds.
Even when I understood what I should be listening for, I had a really hard time telling which one I was hearing in context.
I took a class in college that went over this subject a little bit from the side of language development in children. It was in an upper division general ed course so it didn’t go super deep into the subject but I remember some of it.
Basically sometime in our adolescence (I remember 4 years old being mentioned?) our ability to HEAR sounds in language sort of “completes?” (I cant think of a better word for this but im also like 3 edibles deep on a Saturday night). If a child is not exposed to certain sounds that you hear in a language it makes it hard from them to ever hear the difference between that sound and others. This is why Japanese native speakers will commonly have a problem hearing L and R sounds. The other example we were given is van Gogh’s name, American born English speakers most likely will never be able to pronounce Gogh correctly because we cannot hear what it actually sounds like since we weren’t exposed to sounds commonly found in the Dutch language when we were children.
In their defense, Spookyghostface is a complicated name
Nah this is facts. I think thereâs a tone to it too that they want idkÂ
Itâs not that crazy. Itâs Oh-GUH-Gwa, Charles said Oh-GOO-Gwa. This is not any different from how any other ethnicity desires their name be properly corrected.
Eastern European surname here. If people tried and they are even close, then I’m satisfied. I’m not wasting my time.
Yes particularly Yoruba names where the language actually has a tone “doo-ree-mi” just like in Music.
So for example a word “Igba” means 4 totally different things depending on the tone you use.
What that means is yep, even people of Nigerian heritage that do not speak the language get the names wrong but we accept and are used to it.
E.g. The name “Wale” (from the rapper) or Sade (the singer) has always been pronounced tonally wrong.
That and every French girl Iâve ever known
My sous chef is from Senegal and he is the nicest dude in the world. He just smiles when people say his name and says “sure” I love that dude.
O-goo-gwah?
#WRONG
I thought it was this for the longest time but here it sounds like he’s saying o-gug-gwah? Either way, I love him and I’m excited to see him one game away from the finals
Haha my good childhood buddy was Nigerian and I knew the real names for him and a couple of his siblings (they all went by shortened versions of their names in school/to others). But yeah Iâm quite sure they would politely but directly tell me Iâm not pronouncing them right haha.
My friends nickname is 2 syllables and he still would tell us we’d say it wrong. It was ridiculous, lol
My dad is from Nigeria and I share his Nigerian last name. In grad school, we had a preceptor that was also Nigerian. He told me that we were pronouncing our name wrong.
haha I assume you were americanizing it, which is common.
For example, pretty much all hispanic names are pronounced differently in spanish but most people use the americanized version.
â*Nikolaj*â âNo, itâs *Nikolaj*â
The look on his face screams this is why I go by OG.
you’re*
Language is about hearing as well as pronunciation. You cannot necessarily perceive the difference a native speaker is hearing.
I think we tend to think of it like… take Alan and Ellen. If you say those the same way, you probably can’t pronounce them differently except with extreme difficulty. You probably can hear the difference if your dialect makes them homophones even if wrapping your tongue around the distinction is different. So in that scenario it’s purely a pronunciation problem.
But I’m watching this video and the way Anunoby laughs at the end there makes me think he’s thinking “they still got it wrong” and while it might be more a “damn, they got it… it is possible” which is a different kind of exasperation, I can’t tell the difference with the second attempt (from the panel) and how he said it slowly. I suspect the quality of the sounds are being analysed as one thing by the panel (and myself) and another by Anunoby.
“no - i am saying it right, what?” lol
I miss OG’s humor on the Raps. I think he was messing with Chuck.
He has the best dead pan humor. His response to Martha Stewartâs instagram story the other day was great too. Classic Ogugua.
That’s not how you say it.
This has massive âNikolajâ energy lol
It’s Craeeeg.
Nikolaj, I feel like Iâm saying it the same as you
Just wanna let you know I laughed stupidly at this
British in him, dry humour is a requisite when itâs constantly raining.
He is still my favourite NBA player. I hope he wins a ring.
good news, he did!
Yeah, he got one, but he didnât get to play. I want him to ball out and win one.
I fucking miss him so much
The other fun guy. Â
I DIED when he said that! OG is like the worst choice to do any type of interview because heâs too matter of fact and straightforward
Also Chuck is basically the overly opinionated but kind of entertaining drunk guy at your local pub.
My last name isn’t that uncommon…but its one people mispronounce all the time.
So when people ask me my last name, obviously I pronounce it correctly. Its like their brain shuts off for a second. Then it turns back on, and they say, “Oh you mean (insert incorrect pronunciation).”
I just stare at them. Like bruh…how you gonna try to correct me on my own name?
Mines about the same. It’s a very easy name but it’s polish (and short, somehow that’s possible) but you basically have a one in three shot of guessing how the middle vowel is pronounced.
I was watching this live while eating my ramen and it made me spray some of my soup
Cheesing so hard he had to stop himself. He always does that, itâs ok man itâs legal to smile LMAO
Bro this is the most Iâve seen him smile. I guess we do love hearing our name or talk about our names
Only time I see him smile is when Suni Lee is courtside
I think OG was very close to saying his name was Prince Ogugua
charles barkley asked a man his real name on national television and then attempted it live with no preparation and no safety net
the courage. the chaos. the pronunciation attempt. television has never been better.
he was genuinely curious , as I am also.
Especially since it’s the same guy who once butchered “TNT’s The Alienist” đđ
“The Anunus”
âI donât know anything about Ogugua, but I know Oguguaâs in troubleâ
Barâs pretty low huh
Beats some boring ass cookie-cutter questions!
He sounded like he said it right tho
oh goUH guwĂ
Charles was close. His was more of Oh gOO gwah
This guy hears
yeah, it’s a back of the throat deal, needs more tongue in it. I don’t know how to phrase it.
back of the throat deal, needs more tongue in it
holy pause
You’re not hearing it right
Nikolaj
If you donât like OG, you probably should see a therapist.
But what about scarves?
Lol. For the uninitiated https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/rMj8Z0xbzG
And then for the next few weeks they were one upping each other on who could wear the most ridiculous scarves lol
Thatâs amazing
OG showing up in this big ass scarf and then Serge showing up with what looks like a fucking carpet as a scarf had me dying for weeks lmfao
Holy shit thatâs funny.
Gotta add the link to this gem from the comments. OG’s talks defense and less than 2min into the video, you can hear him slip back into this original British accent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvnS4AhiJLA
I used to hate scarves. Now I love scarves because of OG. Thanks for putting me on, OG.
My parents used to hate each other until OG put me on scarves. Now my parents hate each other but I have this scarf.
This guy is my spirit animal
I like him, I just hope my girlfriend wonât say hey to him.
You mean our girlfriend now?
real shit. He’s such a positive to have around (even if he doesn’t smile)
Ogugua - he’s so tough bro
That’s the most I’ve ever heard OG talk since he was drafted.
In my former line of work I interviewed him and his dad. His dad(RIP) was hilarious and an absolute chatterbox. I never talked to his mom but I have to imagine she’s the one OG got his straightforward, conversational style from because it was not from his dad.
Thats pretty cool
Often times if a parent has a big personality their kids can end up very shy.
Fr you ain’t lying.
But what about scarfs?
Draymond lookin like he forced himself into a friend group he doesn’t even belong in
Thatâs how shrek got stuck with donkey in the first place
Shrek and Donkey is the perfect analogy for Shaq and Draymond.
LMFAOOOOOOOO
Lmfaoooooooo this is perfect
Fucking evisceration lmao
First time Iâve ever laughed at a Draymond donkey joke
I donât understand why the network wants him so badly.
Haters bring more followers
He’s just horrible. Unbelievably biased in his opinions, can’t go a second without talking about himself, and forces jokes/relatively not funny
I hate how they’re grooming him to be “the next Charles Barkley.” The total difference is Chuck can take a joke about himself and his career while Draymond gets all mad defensive everytime.
I’m telling my kids his name is Original Gangster
Original Gugua
No, itâs Nikolaj
close, Nikolaj
Nikolaj - I feel like Iâm saying it.
Not quite, itâs Nikolaj
Chuck said it right.
Ernie is a pro through and through…. “Fuck all this oochie-wally-bang-bang, africano shit.” This man shot 60% from the floor, 51% from 3. Let’s talk about that!
chuck ain say it rite he said oh goog wa stead of gugg wa but not every1 build 4 da ear dis is
Well that’s probably why the London boy goes by OG đ€Ł.
As an irish-american, that’d be like me correcting a Nigerian for saying Patch-Reek instead of Patch-Rick.
I clearly aint got da eer for mandem.
OG: Oh-Gug-wa
Charles: Oh-Goog-wa
Shaq: Oh-gwi-gwa
As a fellow Nigerian whose name is 13 letters long, I empathise with this only too well
You betta stop Ogugua
this desk too crowded
Iâll always love OG, happy to see him thriving
Lmfao I got a Jamaican homeboy and I could say a Jamaican phrase spot on and heâll always say Iâm doing it wrong
Barkley said it right the first time
as a nigerian i can guarantee he didnt lol.
its very tonal, its not just the phonetic sounding
They won’t understand if they don’t know the phonetics/tonation which is fine.
It only gets annoying when they INSIST they’re saying it right and you’re wrong, I’ve experienced it too many times
yup, I mentioned in another comment that sometimes the evocation needed to say a word or a name isnt even in any word that exists in english, so its possible that you actually physically cant pronounce it correctly because your base is english and Igbo (tribe OG is part of) doesnt share that base.
Like I have a few friends that are zhuang chinese. Same thing where even if I know the phonetic sounds and listen to them say a phrase, Im missing something when I say it.
Which again is completely fine, I just don’t get how people get indignant when it’s a name and phonetics I’ve been familiar with since birth đ
I miss our prince so much. Go win another ring
Lmao. This is so real! Iâm Nigerian and when people say back my last name after I say it, I always have to correct them a bunch of times.
The league learned how to pronounce Olajuwon’s name, they will learn how to pronounce Ogugua.
I’m also Nigerian and I used to be embarrassed by name, because of how diffucult it was for others to pronounced.
Then I saw a clip online from a Nigerian who said if people can learn to pronounce Schwarzenegger, they can learn my six later name
People donât pronounce Schwarzenegger correctly though
Technically speaking, they didn’t
Shaq coming in over the top with his egregiously wrong pronunciation is killing me
Ugh I neeed ogugua so bad
Chuck is so dumb đ why wouldnât he say own his name right
It was a joke
I think that was the most anyoneâs ever gotten out of og in an interview. What a monster
I love this lmao
my sweet prince onto better pastures
OG doing đŽó §ó ąó „ó źó §ó ż proud.!
OG is the fucking best
Lmao
No one said it right, he clearly pronounces “Ou-gu-gua”, no one is catching the “u” sound in the first dipthong. They might be confused by English phonology, where the “o” sound is pronounced “ou” by itself but followed by “g” it loses the “u”. His name is just like the letter O and then “gu·gua”. Shaq is the worse “Owiwua”.
My Igbo brotha đȘđŸ
LMFAOOO
The only thing Ernie had to say was how well heâs shooting. Smart dude.