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Re: [opensuse-project] The openSUSE Project welcomes Jos Poortvliet as new Community Manager
- From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:10:37 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1008020841130.7387@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 2010-08-02 04:44, Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
Hi Jos!
(2010/08/02 0:48), Jos Poortvliet wrote:
cheers, Jos
Welcome to openSUSE community!
By the way, would you please tell me how I should pronounce your name?
Is Jos pronounced "*y*os" like "Johan Cruijff" or "*j*os" like "Uncle Joe"?
And, is Poortvliet pronounced as it is spelled - Poor-t-v-liet?
Oh dear. Forget about all the "pronounced as spelled"(PAS) quirk. It
isn't meaningful in the English language: given 'a' [ˈeɪ], 'aboard'
would be [ˈeɪ'beɪrd], [ˈe'berd] or [ˈɪ'bɪrd], not [ə'bɔːrd]. Spelling
it Poor-t-v-liet and slapping an English pronunciation on top would
make "poor TV leet", which is absurd.
(Cf. the "through" discussion in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IzDbNFDdP4 )
As for the pronunciation of Poortvliet, to best avoid confusion,
IPA please. Or a .wav even.
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