How Latakia is Pronounced in Syria

[StPaulPiper]

I think Latakia sounds like a cheap car made in Syria before the civil war broke out

My Latakia has one-wheel drive. And the windows don't roll down. Gets really smoky inside sometimes.

 

[dhinvid]

The town has a Syrian pronunciation, and before that an Ottoman pronunciation, but we heard about it through its British pronunciation, so I'm not sure what a post-millennial pronunciation should be.

 

[TheWhale13]

The town has a Syrian pronunciation, and before that an Ottoman pronunciation, but we heard about it through its British pronunciation, so I'm not sure what a post-millennial pronunciation should be.

Probably the British, just like only pretentious (sounding? ) people pronounce things in a French accent when there is a popular English way of pronouncing it.

 

[anotherbob]

It just gets so much more fun when one has to decide on which skill-set's jargon a word is being used in reference to. So many words are shared by different jargons to refer to different things. Tobacco pipers may (or may not) use a few jargon terms that are shared with Scottish (bag)Pipers for all I know. Or, perhaps plumbers, pipefitters or steamfitters as well?

reminds me of that stupid internet thing of a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable. And it's just too much for people to process that there are different types of categorization. You botanically a tomato is a fruit, culinarily it's a vegetable.

 

[dhinvid]

Probably the British, just like only pretentious (sounding? ) people pronounce things in a French accent when there is a popular English way of pronouncing it.

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[jpmcwjr]

Please use standard English! Or you can simply use an emoji to show you agree.

 

[ThermionicScott]

The town has a Syrian pronunciation, and before that an Ottoman pronunciation, but we heard about it through its British pronunciation, so I'm not sure what a post-millennial pronunciation should be.

Perhaps we could argue that "Latakia" as a type of tobacco is a loan-word, and fine to pronounce however it comes naturally to an English-speaker, and not to worry about the "correct" pronunciation unless we're talking geography with a Syrian...

 

[cosmicfolklore]

You botanically a tomato is a fruit, culinarily it's a vegetable.

Yeh, and I'm sure people that can't grasp Tomatoes being a fruit would have their minds blown to know that Peppers, squashes, eggplants, and any vegetable that is the fruit of the plant holding the seeds is also a fruit.

 

[anotherbob]

Yeh, and I'm sure people that can't grasp Tomatoes being a fruit would have their minds blown to know that Peppers, squashes, eggplants, and any vegetable that is the fruit of the plant holding the seeds is also a fruit.

People are funny. They can be brilliant and then totally idiotic in the space of a hole sentence. Though what's really funny is when people comment on people, it seems like they often forget they're people too.

 

[anotherbob]

Perhaps we could argue that "Latakia" as a type of tobacco is a loan-word, and fine to pronounce however it comes naturally to an English-speaker, and not to worry about the "correct" pronunciation unless we're talking geography with a Syrian...

still certainly interesting to see where the word came from before being applied to tobacco. Fun fact it seems like many tobaccos are named for either where grown or if that is far away from where they're smoked then they're named for where the leaf is sold. Or in other words it's funny how one of the ways of spotting a new pipe smoker is they look at a Va blend and go I don't care where it was grown.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I think we've exhausted this one. You say tomato, I say Latakia.