Re: Spousal names (Was: Re: "Mister" (was: Re: New Lang: Igassik))

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

>On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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>> Oct 25, 2000 at 02:04:57PM -0400@
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>> Alternatively, why don't you "adopt" a German first name, then? ;-)
>
><sniff>  I would if he'd adopt a Korean name.  Make it easier on my poor
>Korean relatives who can't at all pronounce "Betzwieser," as opposed to
>his relatives, who have no problem with "Yoon" or "Lee."  I see no reason to
Doesn't he accept the Koreanized version of "Betzwieser"? My
father's name is Hartvig Jensen [ha:dvi:? jEns@n], which always
gets rendered as Heartbig Jensen [hartbig dZEnsEn] by my Filipino
relatives. My father has no problem with that. Similarly, my
Danish name ought to be pronounced as [kREsdj&n], but I don't
mind if it gets rendered another way.

-kristian- 8)