What really gets me after watching this vid is the setting is ignored. This man is sitting well beyond the action. One can hear the poorly dressed audience singing along with a rudimentary tune better than one can hear the muffled amplification of the performer. It’s probably no more interesting a scene than the…

Something weird is happening.

Woah.

Jezebel is really conservative— just not in the full fledged Republican sense.

Interview him because he read a book during a performance by an underwhelming pop artist whose musical acclaim is exaggerated to match her marketing spectacle? Maybe an introspective essay examining your desire to interview him would be more appropriate. Something about the incredulous belief that Beyonce’s music…

Gross.

Will Amy Schumer be next?

This sort of comment is just as bad as corny fad vegans talking about 51 bananas a day.

What’s a TERF?

It’s because vegans are a minority lifestyle group. It’s a novelty to a lot of people when they begin (and subsequently quit); it’s really much more about identity status and that sort of person usually goes on to other dumb identities and does the same thing.

It’s really sad that people in this part of the internet don’t get that, pretend that Beyonce isn’t an act, and then pretend any of this pop music is art expressive of anything besides marketing calculation.

This garbage are for people who talk about “talent” in music.

But for real, you all listen to garbage. How is this on anyone’s radar?

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.