Originally Posted by
moondog
Often, the English pronunciations … are different than the pronunciations in native languages. This does NOT render them "incorrect". In fact, I find it pretentious when speakers insert … pronunciations (with tones, and all) into English sentences.
significantly OT, but I find it particularly egregious when TV soccer announcers — particularly British and American — use *what they think* is the appropriate pronunciation of a player’s name, and it’s often nowhere close to how the individual actually says it