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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
Oh, forget it. It's not wyrth the trouble.
I live surrounded by Quebecois who seem to be constitutionally incapable of pronouncing my name. It's pronounced Ee-An, but the most common pronunciation I hear is Yan, with an occasional eye-An. I feel your pain, Wryte. After a while you just stop caring whether or not people get your name right.
edited 5th Dec '13 5:02:50 PM by kegisak
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.I'm not even sure how they can get Yan out of Ian.
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Really , tell us more and I'm sure we can make it into a Mind Screw of a fanfic.
I think there was something pony like in my last dream, but it had more in common with Worm than anything.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play@ Kegi: That's odd. I'd automatically pronounce Ian as "Ee-an", unless I got corrected. Don't know how someone would get "Yan" out of "Ian".
I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat! Hey, come hang out!@Syd and Ed: It's a... slurring thing, almost. In all cases I've heard it, while Yan is the easiest way to describe the sound, in actual facti t sounds more like they're struggling with the distinction between the syllables. Like a... Yeean, almost.
It has to do with the way french is spoken, I think; they treat inflection and emphasis differently.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.Reading the news, procrastinating on finishing my CS project. Then if I have time I'll probably start reading Worm again.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play@Kegi: Something like 95% of everyone who tries to pronounce my last name without hearing it aloud first says it wrong. In fact, I had a math teacher in middle school who read it wrong every single day during attendance, and I corrected him every single day. It went on so long that one time when I gave up and didn't correct him, the entire class corrected him simultaneously instead.
So what is this bizarre, unpronounceable, almost certainly foreign name with which I'm burdened?
Willey. Pronounced "Will-ee."
Ah, yes... I've experienced that too, though oddly enough not since moving to montreal. You'd think "Sime" would read very clearly as, well... Sime, hard I silent e, but I used to hear 'Simmy' all the time.
Pronunciation. I dunno, man.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.

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