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Re: "real" names in Chevraqis

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Sunday, October 15, 2000, 16:09
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, dirk elzinga wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote: > > Missed this the first time around. My surname is Frisian, and I was > named after my mother's father, who was born and raised in Amsterdam. > So the American pronuniciation differs somewhat from the "authentic" > Dutch/Frisian one: > > American: d.Rk El'ziNg@ > Dutch: dI*k 'ElziNxa > > (* is a tap in this system, right?)
Tap? (Thinking of Magic: The Gathering.) You mean one of the r's? In Chevraqis: American Dirk Elzinga = Duruk Eruzinuga Duthc Dirk Elzinga = Diruk Eruzinuqa YHL