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