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WTF! How to pronounce crazy foreign names?!
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I am going to be the announcer/speaker at a sports-event tomorrow (Benchpress World Championship), and some of the athletes have names, that I have very little idea how to pronounce. So I am summoning the powers of OOT! Help me out! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Mkrtchyan (Armenia) - Merk-tji-an? Szczepanik (Poland) - Tjepanik? Hsieh (Taipei) - Shi-eh? |
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Re: WTF! How to pronounce crazy foreign names?!
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Mkrtchyan (Armenia) - Merk-tji-an? Szczepanik (Poland) - Tjepanik? Hsieh (Taipei) - Shi-eh? [/ QUOTE ] They're pronounced like they're spelled, duh! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I think your guesses of the pronunciations that you have listed are pretty close. Edit: As a person with a difficult-to-pronounce name I will say that it will definitely be appreciated that you're making an effort to figure out the correct pronunciation of these names. |
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Re: WTF! How to pronounce crazy foreign names?!
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Hsieh (Taipei) - Shi-eh? [/ QUOTE ] I know this one is pronounced "Shay." No idea on the others. |
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Re: WTF! How to pronounce crazy foreign names?!
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Hi I am going to be the announcer/speaker at a sports-event tomorrow (Benchpress World Championship), and some of the athletes have names, that I have very little idea how to pronounce. So I am summoning the powers of OOT! Help me out! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Mkrtchyan (Armenia) - Merk-tji-an? Szczepanik (Poland) - Tjepanik? Hsieh (Taipei) - Shi-eh? [/ QUOTE ] 1) You could ask them. 2) How do you pronounce "tj"? |
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Re: WTF! How to pronounce crazy foreign names?!
Tj = kind of like tchehhh
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Szczepanik [/ QUOTE ] I had a friend with this last name... He pronounced it Sha-pan-iak |
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Re: WTF! How to pronounce crazy foreign names?!
Mkrtchyan (Armenia) - Merk-tji-an?
Meh-kert-chiyan EDIT: I suck at phonetics Meh-kert-cheeyon (short o, like in the word "on") I'm so used to knowing how to pronounce the yan or ian in Armenian names I didn't translate it phonetically. |
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Re: WTF! How to pronounce crazy foreign names?!
This wouldnt be such a big deal if it was like the puzzle solving world champs. "Ooooo I pronounced your name wrong, nerd. So sorry."
But the benchpress world champs? That's not something to mess up. |
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Re: WTF! How to pronounce crazy foreign names?!
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Szczepanik (Poland) - Tjepanik? [/ QUOTE ] I played a bit with windows voice synthesizer. It`s more like Shcha-paaneek. |
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Szczepanik [/ QUOTE ] My best guess is ze-panik, in the same way that Szczerbiak is zer-biak. |
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