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Re: Name barbarisms

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 16, 2001, 20:50
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Frank George Valoczy wrote:

> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote: > > > I used to have a teacher who rendered my first name as /an"dwe:as/. Pretty > > annoying, but he really drove my sister Rebecka crazy by pronouncing her > > name as /we"beka/. He's a native speaker, but his dialect is a bit, er, > > deviant. > > My sister insists on being called, [ZuZi], which is the Hungarian > equivalent of Sue. One of her teachers drove her insane by constantly > saying [suSi].
My sister Yune [jun] (just like me, only our parents spelled mine Yoon on the birth certificate, God only knows why the change) always got people calling her [j@n] (well, the schwa-like sound that occurs in stressed syllables, not unstressed syllables, I suppose, though I can't hear the difference), [juni], [j@ni], and other variants. As for her middle name Kyung...<shaking head> YHL

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