Does bad fashion sense correspond with really bad stuff like this?

Learning this stuff can be a headache. The variations of the letter we are discussing took me a very long time to understand. All of the other letters/sounds were not a problem. My brain would freeze when encountering this one, however, until it magically started to make sense.

The “uh-oh” example shows the difference in the vowel sounds in English (in reference to the pronunciation of Usama/Osama). I suppose, since you bring it up, it also demonstrates a glottal stop (which shows that it exists in English— all of us can easily say “uh-oh”— it’s just not a sound that was incorporated).

I don’t think that’s anything like the English oh. Try replacing the oh with an ayin+dhamma in regular conversation and wait for people to look at you like you’re a top grade weirdo.

None of that matters. You are complicating it for yourself in a way that isn’t necessary (I think you’re taking the explanation you received in a literal manner that doesn’t need to be applied in this instance). While the wow and dhamma have a relationship, the wow has no bearing in the pronunciation of Usama. It…

Here’s the low down on the transliteration: the way Americans say Usama (أسامة) sorta hurts the ears. You want to think about American pronunciation as something like “o-saw-ma.” In Arabic, it’s ‘usaama. The word begins with the short vowel dhamma

That information was sorta incorrect.

Usama (أسامة) doesn’t begin with a و.

How corny do you have to be to think that a festival performance could ever be great? This stuff is for nerds.

“Usama” is a better transliteration than Osama. an “oh” sound doesn’t exist in Arabic.

There’s also the problem of admissible evidence. Intelligence collection doesn’t operate like police work.

I think some of you need to learn something about essentialism and how it’s a problem. This article is stupid and so is the “controversy.”

What you think I think isn’t what I think: “your condescending tone suggests that you think identity politics is about seeking points for belonging to an oppressed class, instead of about the issues that affect day-to-day life for women and minorities across all but the very top socioeconomic classes.”

Use google.

Knee length dude shorts are gross.

What’s with tucking those shirts into those shorts? GROSS.

Do you like Beyonce or Guardians of the Galaxy?

Really insightful comment making assumptions about a lot of things because you don’t understand my position on sensationalist media.

I very much recognize that identity politics must be tied to economic issues (and you provided an excellent example of this). However, when recognition of identity alone becomes more important or proposed policies really only benefit people within certain groups who are already upper middle class/rich, then it doesn’t…

Geez, bro, cool sexism again!