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I prounouce it McCall I usually write it Mic-Hal. I expect the Hebrew pronunciation would sound different but I have enough trouble getting people to say McCall.
Okay. I'd write it Mi'kal, myself. Certainly a legitimate modernization/anglicizing of an ancient name, and self-pronouncing in 'Murrican.
My first long-term partner had an ambiguously male name; my second had chosen a variant of her birth names that was a very masculine name; my sister grew up with a male first name. But I emphasize that all three were real, traditional names, not something conjured on a Ouija board after half a bottle.
To avoid ambiguity for a girl, just use the name on the hospital crib... Female. Pronounced fe-MAHL-lee.
Yes and no. Demanding a cite for something obvious or that can be taken at face value in the context of the discussion is laziness or an irritating deflection of the topic.
However, anyone making an unusual or questionable claim can rightly be asked for substantiation. You want to claim there are green cows, you'd better have a cite on hand, like a link to a photo.
In the skeptic world, it's a maxim that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof... meaning you need more than a purported photo of Nessie, Obama meeting aliens or Bigfoot.
Baloney.
The onus is on the uninformed poster to educate himself, or refute something stated as fact.
We all know what the snarky Link, please means; no one needs to accommodate that nonsense by responding to it. The lazy ones are those who don't want to bother confronting the poster with something such as...That's not true.
The onus is on the uninformed poster to educate himself, or refute something stated as fact.
We all know what the snarky Link, please means; no one needs to accommodate that nonsense by responding to it. The lazy ones are those who don't want to bother confronting the poster with something such as...That's not true.
Gee, that was easy.
I realize that City-Data is hardly academia or journalism, but in those venues, a source is indeed required if presenting something as fact that's not typically well known. Maybe that's why a lot of people expect it from City-Data posters. Personally, I'm not terribly interested in going down Google rabbit holes to find out whether some outlandish thing some poster claims is fact is actually true. If they can't back it up, I usually just consider them an uniformed source and move on.
“A Texas mother is complaining that a Southwest Airlines employee mocked her 5-year-old daughter's name, which is Abcde.
Traci Redford said she and young Abcde (pronounced "Ab-city") were flying from Santa Ana, California, to their home in El Paso, Texas, a few weeks ago when a gate agent began mocking the girl's name.”
(as reported by “AB-see Seven”. Sorry, couldn’t resist )
Yeah, the agent was wrong for posting the boarding pass online, but, IMHO, she shouldn’t be faulted for laughing because that IS a RIDICULOUS name that I’m sure was purposely picked to draw attention. Mission Accomplished. This child is going to have to deal with people mocking her name for a LONG time to come (never mind issues with future employment).
ABCDE ?? what the FGHIJK .
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Certainly a legitimate modernization/anglicizing of an ancient name, and self-pronouncing in 'Murrican.
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