Put an end to people mispronouncing your name
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Re: Put an end to people mispronouncing your name
#2Nice, reminds me of a Brian Regan sketch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ8BoYEgy1I&t=4m11s
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#3As a bearer of an apparently hard-to-pronounce name, this looks interesting, but I don't know that I would do this.
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#4My last name looks hard to pronounce so I'd technically be their target, but unfortunately, I'm not sure that I'd actually set this up. Cool idea though!!
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#5As a bearer of an apparently hard-to-pronounce name, this looks interesting, but I don't know that I would do this.
If it's the same name as your HN username, I don't see any obvious way to mispronounce it, other than whether the first 'o' is long or short. Is that the bit people mispronounce?
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#6I actually like that my name is hard to pronounce (as in: I have yet to hear someone pronounce it correctly without being told). It means that I instantly know when the person on the phone doesn't know me.
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#7Yeah, I think it's a clever concept, but it seems almost egotistical to say, "Look, I care enough about how you pronounce my last name to embed a link in my email sig"
Many people classically mispronounced my name - it's not a big deal, I move on. If we're not going to be having many conversations where you say my last name, I'm not even going to correct you.
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#8Remembers me of "How do you pronounce 'Bjarne Stroustrup?'": http://www.stroustrup.com/pronounciation.wav
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#9As a bearer of an apparently hard-to-pronounce name, this looks interesting, but I don't know that I would do this.
Same here (Polish names unite!). I usually get embarrassed by the amount of attention mine will get. Using this tool feels like it would just add even more attention to it.
Re: Put an end to people mispronouncing your name
#10As a bearer of an apparently hard-to-pronounce name, this looks interesting, but I don't know that I would do this.
If it's the same name as your HN username, I don't see any obvious way to mispronounce it, other than whether the first 'o' is long or short. Is that the bit people mispronounce?
I'm guessing any pronunciation errors are caused by people misreading it and skipping letters or adding extra ones.