Thoughts on the baby name Carla with Spanish pronunciation?

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In Spanish i love it - it reminds me of ELITE (A show i like) and carla from scrubs, but i prefer ELITE pronounciation (CARR-LAH) - in english i dont like it, too old lady lol _ thoughts????? coming back to me after watching Elite and a few videos on leanring spanish

I mean...some of my English friends don't pronounce the R in iron

Wow that is so weird re the "r". Explains a lot. I love rolling my rs.

I didn’t mean it represents everything unstressed 😁

To put it another way, I’m Irish and, like pp, I also say CAR-ah, never CAR-uh.
EM-ah rather than EM-uh for Emma.

I don't know what you mean by "My understanding was that the schwa can vary a bit in pronunciation, depending on the letters next to it in a word and depending on accent. " An example might help.
If you are saying Emma as EM-ah, there's no schwa.

Anyway, a pp annoyed me by a comment about me saying Emma as EMM-ah.
I just say it how I've always said it.

I’ve tried…and can’t pronounce it the way you’re asking 🤷‍♀️ It sounds fake when I try and, honestly, like I’m taking the piss (which I’m not!!)

Back in Scotland we had exercises that said stuff like "Circle the silent letter" in Words like Wednesday or February" - I told the kids just to ignore those.
Same with the long and short oo sound.

I once taught a boy called Luke Wright. I thought this was hilarious as it sounded like "Look right before you cross the road". None of my English colleagues got it.

Oh yes @HelpmaBoabb "iorning" is just weird.

But then they add rs when they are not there - drawring, sawring etc 🧐

I don't get what your English colleagues didn't get! Are Luke and look not pronounced the same in an English accent - I'm trying to say them in my head 🤔

In some English accents Luke and look will sound the same, maybe Newcastle and other NE accents? But in most they won't. Luck and look are more likely to sound the same.

@User6761They said Luke with a long oo sound and look with a short one which to me sounded more like luck.
That was in SE England but other areas would probably be different.

This is what I mean:
https://web.mit.edu/flemming/www/paper/schwaphonetics.pdf
A schwa is not only an uh sound.

Look, Luke, and luck are all distinct sounds to me

ok

This is new to me but I'm interested to learn it. I had assumed that an 'a' at the end of a word was always pronounced 'a', as it is where I'm from. It's really interesting to hear that there are alternatives.

Folk will think you’re pretentious.

It's not an alternative, it's how it's usually said in English. That's why you get brand names like 'Tayla Maid'.

Not true. Luke /luːk/, look /lʊk/, luck /lʌk/

It’s how it’s usually said in English where you are @DeeNiall. Not where I am or where several other posters are, it seems.
Tayla Maid doesn’t work as a pun in my accent anyway as the r in tailor is pronounced here (Ireland).

I'm sorry, but what do you mean 'not true'? The fact is that in some English accents 'Luke' and 'look' sound the same and in other English accents 'look'' and 'luck' sound the same 😵‍💫

Are you an AI robot?

You don't know where I'm from but there's a clue in my username.

It's actually not how it's said where I am from.

Must I stick "It might not apply in your local accent." on every post on a thread?
Why is it always an Irish poster who argues?

The AI robot doesn't like being argued with.

Are you Irish too?

Accents vary so much that I don’t like it when people say this is how something is pronounced (or even usually pronounced) in English. It’s too prescriptive.

You’ve already told me upthread I don’t use a schwa to pronounce words I actually do pronounce with a schwa so I’m going to keep arguing I’m afraid 😁

When in doubt don’t use the name!
Prefer Cara or Clara

It's pointless to me when posters try to illustrate their point by using IPA? squiggles.
They mean nothing to me (and I suspect a lot of other posters) and I'm not going to spend time and effort learning.

People all over the country pronounce words differently.

@Mandarinclementine , I can only go by what you post. If you say you say you say Emma as EM-ah then you are not saying it as /ˈem.ə/.

You can say " It’s too prescriptive." but if I need a definition of a pronunciation I look it up.
It probably won't sound the same when all English speakers say it and I'm not saying it should.

@RaraRachael , given that I've read things like "Luck/Luke and look are more likely to sound the same." I used the IPA to show that they don't.
You don't need to understand it, it was just to back up my 'Not true'.