The hill I will probably die on: Every name is a noun. That is, first and foremost, a word, an utterance, in one specific language. There is no such thing as an omnilingual name.
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When you criticize people for not "correctly" pronouncing a word from another language, that they do not speak, with phonetics different from the language they are speaking, that is an act of gatekeeping, and reflects poorly on you, not the object of your ire.
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No one is obligated to learn all of the languages in the world. Not TV announcers, and not schoolteachers. Shout at the television if you must (I do) but don't tell people off for not speaking a language that you know and they don't.
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Agreed, but for this reason I wish that databases (e.g., of athletes) included a pronunciation guide provided by the person themselves. I presume that teams already provide the Romanizations; I'd love it if they included a Wikipedia-style English respelling too.
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My undergrad institution did this before the graduation ceremony, and I thought it provided a lot of meaning for the amount of effort involved.
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And unlike "just say it the Right Way(TM)", it let people who knew that the "proper" pronunciation of their name by an English speaker would be horribly butchered give their preferred English pronunciation.