So Did You Know How To Pronounce Storm Isaias Before Hearing Newscasters Say It?

Ahem

I did not. Still don’t. I feel great shame.

Yes.

Are you kidding?

Next thing you know, they’ll get really woke a d want names like Quetzalcoatl.

How about something simple?

Like “Karen.”

Eee-sigh-ay-eee-us according to my dentist’s assistant who is Colombian.

Newscasters shouldn't be the standard. OP. Remember how many ways they've pronounced "Halley's Comet"?

I usually love Spanish-language names, but not this one.

So, uh, no.

Eazy E

I hope it goes away quickly and does no lasting damage. I do not want to have to say (or type) "Isaias" as often as we did "Katrina."

Spanish normally pronounces all letters (if I remember my high school language course correctly) so I would pronounce it as "ee-sah-EE-us" (said quickly). I don't know if it's right or not. R5 doesn't seem correct to me but the Colombian should know I guess.

Was the naming of this hurricane influenced by Wokeness?

Why wasn't it named Maria Concepcion?

That's easier.

It should’ve been named Erna in appreciatia of her many actia of kindness and goodwill!

Nobody was the slightest bit dazed by the hurricane. I don’t even think anyone canceled beach plans.

At this point, I think everyone has just accepted that they might not make it through 2020.

I say it “Ee-SIGH-us”, fluidly. But some are making it very choppy and pronouncing every vowel. Apparently everyone’s got their own special spin on it.

[quote]everyone’s got their own special spin on it

There's a correct and an incorrect way to pronounce it. Yours is wrong.

Spanish speaker, aqui. Entonces, sí.

It’s pronounced the way it’s spelled, so it’s pretty easy.

Claro que si, guey.

The OP is worse than Hitler and Mooseahleanknee together.

TAHM-pah BEH!

R17, maybe I’ll pass your pronouncement along to the Isaias I know IRL and let him know he’s saying his own name incorrectly.

*genuflects*

Hurricanes should have African names, they start in Africa!

Hurricane Lakesha?