Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (349 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 02 August 2010 09:10:37 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 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.

Or don't bother with it. What's the fun if everyone already knows how to 
pronounce your name? But OK, as per the suggestion of Denver I'll think about a 
modern way of introducing myself to the kids here :D