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