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you don't have to be a name nerd to know that a clearly foreign name probably doesn't go by English rules. even people who i know can't speak a language besides English are able to realize this.

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there's a huge difference between following rules and trying to imitate sounds. i can say Ramirez decently by knowing that it's "rah-", not "ram-", but not try to imitate the rolling r because i know i can't do it. i can say Castillo fine, knowing that the double ll is silent, but not do an accent, because that's not needed or appropriate. no one is asking that you imitate the accent, and i honestly doubt you think i meant that- it's such a simple difference. unless it's typical of you to jump to assuming extremes.

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to end with: there's no big deal about pronouncing Sigalit as "sig-uh-lit", as inaccurate as that is, because that just makes sense to you. the deal is over going "hah when pronounced wrong, it sounds like this completely random set of English words, so that's a problem", and seeing it as "too foreign" (as if that's an issue, especially in America), when it doesn't even go against English pronunciation rules.