Our heavy pronunciations and intonations have to do with the dexterity of
the tongue sometimes. Mandingka's and Africans in general are known to have
a problem in that area. Another theory is that "Domoda" has something to do
with the heavy intonations and hoarse voices. Ok, I don't want to start a
fight here but, the English could have saved a letter and all this trouble
by just spelling it as "Kemistry" instead. Perhaps a Mandingkanized or
Banjulized English will do the trick. Who said we can't have our own eh?


On 5/23/08, Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Gainako, This is another area we need expert help. I grew up with Bandeh as
> in Lamin Bandeh or Cherno Bandeh just to start reading Baldeh at school.
> Whether it is the Fula /Fulbe finding their own voice I do not know but it
> is worth looking into.
> BambaLaye  you ask my Mandinka folk to pronounce CHEmistry or a Banjulian
> to say TH. Thats another story.
>
> Malanding
>
>
> Abdoulie Jallow wrote:
>
>> Yoro:
>>
>> The "P" in Arabic is pronounced as "B." The letter "F" is the equivalent
>> of
>> "fa" in Arabic.
>> You're right, out of the 28 alphabets in Arabic, there is no equivalent
>> for
>> "P" thus they pronounce "P" as "B" or "ba" in Arabic. Have you talked to a
>> Middle-Eastern in English lately?
>> Try to have them say "piss off"...they might spit in your face or pull a
>> sword at you -:))
>>
>> -Laye
>>
>>
>> On 5/22/08, Y Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Baldeh is a last name certainly. There might be 'Bandeh' as well, just
>>> because of the pronounciation difficulty. I am convinced that it should
>>> be
>>> Baldeh, which is the same as Bah.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On the other hand, one cannot rule out that a surname 'Bandeh' might
>>> exist.
>>>
>>> A little observation:
>>>
>>> For e.g.
>>>
>>> Some non-Fulbe from my home village pronounce 'Baldeh' as 'Bandeh.' There
>>> are numerous alphabets that are in 'hal-pular' that I don't find in
>>> english
>>> and others. It might be the same for others as well. In a similar vein,
>>> arabic doesn't have 'p', instead they use 'f' for the work of the 'P'.
>>>
>>> The above is just my observation and not from any book . I will keep an
>>> eye
>>> to it, and probably further to ask my matrilineal uncles who are Baldeh
>>> by
>>> surnames. May be others might come to your aid as well if you state what
>>> led
>>> to your question.
>>>
>>> Baldeh-bolong!
>>>
>>>
>>> YJ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 17:35:11 -0400
>>>> From: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: Is it Baldeh or Bandeh?
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>>>> Probably both. I know people who have the last name Baldeh and others
>>>>
>>>>
>>> with the last name Bandeh. it could also be, that somehow along the line,
>>> one of these last names changed due to mispronunciation and just stuck.
>>> Or
>>> that they  just completely have nothing to do with each other.  i am not
>>> an
>>> expert on this, but that is my take, Hopefully the Baldeh's can shed some
>>> light on this
>>>
>>>
>>>> Fatou
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Sent: Thu, 22 May 2008 11:59 am
>>>> Subject: Is it Baldeh or Bandeh?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Folks,
>>>> Is the surname Bandeh or Baldeh? Can anyone help?
>>>>
>>>> Malanding Jaiteh
>>>>
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