Pronunciation of bin Laden's org in the media

[Kim & Rima McKinzey]

>...Surely the goal in English is simply to pronounce the words in a
>way that will
>be understood by other English speakers; to pronounce them in a way that would
>be understood by Arabic speakers would be quite startling to our untrained
>ears.

And thus was why I started the "jerk rule" of pronunciation:  i.e.,
so that when an English speaker says a non-English word, he/she
shouldn't sound like a total jerk.  Every language has phonemes or
allophones not heard in other languages.  I've always thought one
should get as close to the "correct" pron as possible, while still
using an English sound system.

And don't you just love the new Jack-in-the-Box chipotle commercial?

Rima