Butchered Foreign Names

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 09:23:54 -0400 Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
> ObConLang: Do y'all deal with butchered foreigners' names in your
> conlangs?  :-)  By some strange coincidence, my name is entirely
> pronounceable in Chevraqis.  My boyfriend's name is a nightmare (but
> then, his last name is Betzwieser, which is a nightmare in Korean,
> too).
>
> YHL
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Rokbeigalmki generally picks the closest phoneme to the strange foreign
one and uses that.  Since it has a large phonemic inventory that isn't
always necessary, though.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "do not fear sudden terror."