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Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
...an article about "Atom Yegoyan"...
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Originally posted by marc weber:
So would the beginning, "Ego," be pronounced like the car, "Yugo"?
Originally posted by marc weber:
And would the ending, "yan," be a single syllable rhyming with "pan"?
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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
But speakers of English stress the second-to-last syllable: Sa-ROY-an, Kha-cha-TUR-yan, and so on.Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
All Armenian last names I ever heard had the stress on the last syllable.
Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
But speakers of English stress the second-to-last syllable: Sa-ROY-an, Kha-cha-TUR-yan, and so on.
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Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
... What is wrong with Sa-ro-YAN and Kha-cha-tu-RYAN? ...
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Nothing wrong with them, but that just isn't the way that English-speakers say the names. We don't pronounce Thabo Mbeki's name the same way that native speakers of Xhosa do either and neither do Russians, I'm willing to bet. And when we say the names of famous Chinese people we don't use the right tones.Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
What is wrong with Sa-ro-YAN and Kha-cha-tu-RYAN?
Vassili ...
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Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
We got a British network feed (BBC?) and the announcer was absolutely flawless in reporting the Korean players: "It's Ahn Jung-Hwan, over to Park Ji-Sung, back to Ahn, he sends it forward to Choi Tae-Uk..." Now that was somebody who had done their homework.
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The BBC have a special department just to help their presenters and commentators to pronounce foreign names.Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
We got a British network feed (BBC?) and the announcer was absolutely flawless in reporting the Korean players: "It's Ahn Jung-Hwan, over to Park Ji-Sung, back to Ahn, he sends it forward to Choi Tae-Uk..." Now that was somebody who had done their homework. So it can be done.
There will be glitches in my transition from being a saloon bar sage to a world statesman. - Tony Banks
It's not so simple; it's not just a question of telling the reader which sounds to use instead of those suggested by the letters in the name. Just as some clothes are dyed in colors that don't exist in nature, some foreign names use sounds that don't even exist in English. Imitating them is as difficult as imitating bird-calls, and the attempt makes people over the age of 18 feel silly.Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
[Map]: Perhaps it would help if in published production the correct pronunciation of little known foreign names were more often indicated.
Yeah, that would be nice.
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