When saying a person's name that has an obvious foreign origin, do you Anglicise it or pronounce it correctly?
Example: NBA player Joachim Noah is pronounced by sports broadcasters as Jochim, whereas it is properly pronounced as Yo ach eem. I'm sure he is frustrated about such ignorance.
Perfect response...I do too. I had an Hispanic student named Manuel and I pronounced it correctly. (monhwell) The other students didn't get it and pronounced it man-you-el. I asked him to pronounce it for them and they got quite a surprize.
This post was edited by Element 99 at May 1, 2018 7:20 AM MDT
Thanks, Element 99! wow! Thanks for a Pick! Yes, and we both know, you never lose when you ask someone how to pronounce a name. The people, in my cases, always seem to appreciate my effort to be correct. After all, it's his or her name we're talking about. And I truly do want to pronounce it correctly. :)
More common where, and by whom? In areas where there are many Latinos, it's not common at all, because it's an incorrect pronunciation. Non-Latinos who mispronounce it don't make it correct by sheer numbers. A correct pronunciation of a word or a name is simply that: correct. ~
I make every effort to pronounce people's names correctly, I consider it to be one of the highest, most important and most thoughtful ways to show respect. ~
A former doctor, of mine, was called Dr. Pad by ALL his staff because none of them could pronounce his name. I didn't go to him very long either because I couldn't hardly understand his very thick accent.
The correct way to pronounce someone's name is the way the person with the name pronounces it. So sometimes a name with an obvious foreign origin may be pronounced in an Anglicized way.
Same as WelbyQ. We have an Italian friend named Giacomo and he said he got so tired of explaining about his name he started going by Jim back in college. Kind of sad I think. It's pronounced Joc-oh-mo.
This post was edited by Thriftymaid at May 1, 2018 10:32 AM MDT
When I was with my wife at the clinic yesterday, the doctor, obviously of Indian descent, told us when she was at her high school awards ceremony, the announcer botched her name so badly that she didn't know she was being called up to the stage.
The best rule is to try to pronounce names the way people want them pronounced but sometimes it's kind of hard because two people with the exact same last name don't always say it the same way.
I also try to pronounce place names the same way but in some parts of the country place names are Anglicized and in some places they're not.
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