> > I felt bored and wanted to mangle-ate names....
>
> Neat! Let me try:
Ok! Lemme see how Vaiysi handles this!
> Yivrindil allows no initial consonant clusters and no clusters of more
> than two elements unless the final element is -y-, and no clusters of
> the same type of element (i.e. no stop+stop or fricative+fricative). So
> most of these names require lots of mangling. The normal epinthetic vowel
> is -a-, used to avoid violating these conventions.
Vaiysi has no initial clusters. Stress falls on long vowels (which turn out
to be ya, ye, iy and ou - notice 'y' is a schwa).
> > Yoon Ha Lee =
> Yun Ha Li (pron. exactly the same!)
Oun Ha Li
> > Christophe Grandsire
> Karistof Garandasair
> (Ooh, "Garandasair" sounds great, I'll have to steal it for one of my
> stories.)
Kistoufe Gyandesiyr
or
Kiristoufe Gyandesiyr
or
Ristoufe Gyandesiyr
Dunno... choose you!
>
> > Sally Caves
> Sali Kévas
Seli Keives
> > Dan Sulani
> Dan Sulani (totally unchanged)
Dan Sulyani
> > Dan Seriff
> Dan Serif (also rather unchanged)
Dan Serife
> > Dirk Elzinga
Derki Elziynga
> > Taliesin = Taraíesin
> Taliésin, assuming pronounciation [tali'ezIn]
Talyesin
> > Marcus Smith
> Markus Samith
Markus Semiyt
> > Jonathan Chang
> Danathin Ten
Chonatan Chan
> > Nicole Perrin
> Nikol Perin (not much changed, alas)
Nikoul Perrin
Luca aka Louka Manchyat