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Taryn

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Posted on 06-17-10 03:20:20 PM Link | Quote
Username, real name, nick name, whatever. How do people mangle it?

Most people spell "Terra" correctly, unless you count not capitalizing the T, which I don't really mind if that's your typing style on IRC and such. A lot of my older names turned into alphabet soup over time.

People tend to mangle my real name though. Maybe my voice sucks, but a lot of people hear "Taryn" as something else, usually "Tara" (which sounds like Terra to me anyway). Oddly enough, the guy who called me this morning got my first name right but screwed up my last name. Of course, he'd be going by the written information on a form.

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Posted on 06-17-10 03:25:49 PM Link | Quote
People always screw up my last name (Badrick, by the way.)

"Badger? No. Badnick? No! Breadnick? NO! B-A-D-R-I-C-K!

...


Baldrick?"

It really pissed me off when teachers couldn't get it right.

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Posted on 06-17-10 03:27:02 PM Link | Quote
well ...

considering the fact I haven't even decided how to verbalize krutomisi,
I have a feeling people say it wrong.


it's something like crew-tow-oh-mi-shi

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Orlandu


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Posted on 06-17-10 03:29:06 PM Link | Quote
Orlandu is almost always confused with Orlando (as Terra likes to point out ). Google's search always says, "Did you mean Orlando?" to which I emphatically say, "No! Just search for what I freaking typed in there!".

My real name is hard to screw up. Joseph is the common spelling, but I have seen Josef. And Joey is my "nickname" and thats not really spelled any other way.

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Posted on 06-17-10 03:38:53 PM Link | Quote
Sometimes people leave out letters when writing 'Thoughtless'. That is about it.

As for my real name, rarely does someone say "Feliz' instead of 'Felix' but it has happened.

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Posted on 06-17-10 03:49:34 PM (last edited by Peardian at 06-17-10 12:50 PM) Link | Quote
All the time. Probably more than people getting it right. Pronunciation is a whole different issue.


It's pretty hard to mess up a first name like mine, but when people see it paired with my last name, they stare a bit and ask how to pronounce/spell it. Really? Come on.

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Posted on 06-17-10 04:02:47 PM Link | Quote
Yes.

How hard is to Anya, really. I've learn to let it go now.

Trying to find the right video if I can....

Blah, can't find it. Maybe I should just record that scene one day.

Here's a music video from the movie where I got the name from:

<object width="640" height="385"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vDbvjqRuMTA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

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Posted on 06-17-10 04:25:27 PM Link | Quote
I'll give you a guess.

It's even more amusing to hear people attempt to pronounce it over Skype.
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Posted on 06-17-10 04:33:32 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Hiryuu
I'll give you a guess.

It's even more amusing to hear people attempt to pronounce it over Skype.


How is it pronounced anyway?

I usually say "He-rue" in my mind.


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Posted on 06-17-10 04:42:53 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Thoughtless
How is it pronounced anyway?
I usually say "He-rue" in my mind.

I pronounce it "Here-you".

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Taryn

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Posted on 06-17-10 04:56:08 PM Link | Quote
Speak louder, I can't Hiryuu!

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, neither the proper Japanese "h" nor "ry" sounds in that particular name are used in standard English.

Years ago, when he was still hiryuu_shoten_ha, I'd misread the initial part as "hiruyu".

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Posted on 06-17-10 05:00:36 PM Link | Quote

Sakusa
Sukusa
Sukasu
Kusasa

the list goes on... Most people pronounce it right, though.

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Posted on 06-17-10 08:34:02 PM Link | Quote
I wouldn't be Bagel if people had not purposefully messed it up. I went by Bengal but people kept calling me Bagel anyway.

Bagel suits me just fine though.

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Posted on 06-17-10 08:36:11 PM Link | Quote
SOme like to think that my name is spelt using TWo CApital LEtters (or drop the X thinking it is just padding, which it is not).

Soooooooooo

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Posted on 06-17-10 09:41:01 PM Link | Quote
On Jul, nobody typically messes my name up, but I've been called "Red Shift" at least once just about everywhere else I've ever been. Aside from that, most people seem to have no trouble pronouncing it, even if they're a little slow at it the first time.

Concerning my real name, it's practically the local equivalent of "John Smith", so I don't think I've ever heard anybody honestly pronounce it incorrectly. Every so often, though, somebody spells it wrong. (Both my first and my last name seem equally susceptible to this, for some reason.)
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Posted on 06-17-10 11:14:06 PM Link | Quote




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acmin
aclm
amlcm
almcl

Yeah, I've had my fair share of it, but fully expect it with a name like this

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Posted on 06-17-10 11:19:17 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Milly
acmin
aclm
amlcm
almcl

Yeah, I've had my fair share of it, but fully expect it with a name like this


Let's not even get into the pronunciation. I remember quite a few threads that focused on that.

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Posted on 06-17-10 11:19:47 PM Link | Quote
"Schala" sometimes gets mispronounced, using the wrong "a" sound... and it gets misspelled "Shala" or "Scala" sometimes. =/

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Posted on 06-17-10 11:21:28 PM Link | Quote
I've always imagined your name as being:

Sha-la.

Short a's.

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Posted on 06-17-10 11:23:02 PM Link | Quote
Oh, do they ever. ;__; Kyagaru, Kygaru, Kyaragu, Kyagru, Kyragu...

I know I'm asking for it for having a name that's essentially just random letters, though... it's part of why I prefer the shortened form of my username these days. D:

Thankfully my real name is pretty generic, so nobody ever really messes it up that badly.

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