Member Nicknames

[Bareheaded Warrior]

In case anyone was wondering my nickname or 'handle' is pronounced "Bareheaded" as in "Bareheaded" and "Warrior" as in "Warrior".

It is intended to represent a brave, defiant and honourable warrior who trusts his life to his skill and the whim of fate, eschewing the false security of a helmet and instead taking what the gods throw at him in a pragmatic and unflinching manner. It is in no way a euphemism for my penis.

[knightkrawler]

I don't want to get you blood pressure up kk, but I am genuinely interested. In Spanish class the teacher, being from Spain, lamented that she had to teach us Mexican Spanish per state requirements. She preferred her native pronounciation and shared it with us on many occasions. I wonder if that contributes to North Americans Spanish pronunciation issues. I can only remember a few. Z is either like c (s) or th. I think. Aaarrrg I can't remember. I only took that class because I had to and I didn't get an A, that's for sure.

Spanish orthography is very clear and unconfusing with very rare exceptions where a letter is not pronounced as expected as per spelling.
Spanish -z- is either pronounced /th/ voiceless as in thing or /s/ voiced as in "prison" or "zero".
As far as I know, most letters other than -z- are pronounced in one way each.

Notable regional exception: -x- is normally pronounced /sh/, but not in the name "Mexico".

In case anyone was wondering my nickname or 'handle' is pronounced "Bareheaded" as in "Bareheaded" and "Warrior" as in "Warrior".
It is intended to represent a brave, defiant and honourable warrior who trusts his life to his skill and the whim of fate, eschewing the false security of a helmet and instead taking what the gods throw at him in a pragmatic and unflinching manner. It is in no way a euphemism for my penis.

I absolutely adore this post. I would have asked, you know.

[TMU]

Is it an old Finnish name? If so, it has nothing to do with the German version. The spelling AND pronunciation congruency would be completely coincidental, I'd wager, because of the cultural and historical distance of the two languages that, as we know, belong to completely unrelated language families. The German version is derived from Timotheus (like Tim), the Finnish version is probably at least as old as that and completely unrelated.

Many names and words that have a vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant-... pattern developed convergently in several languages.

I have no idea how old is it But our last name is Vehviläinen It is a "tradition" in our family that there are people whos name starts with "t" I'm now the third TV I'm going to name my child with a name that starts with "t" too

[knightkrawler]

Together, you're a TV set.

[bruenor]

Well Bruenor is pronounced Brew-E-Nor.

The Abbreviation Bru, is acceptable, but nothing else.

I do sometimes on the odd occasion respond to Oi!!!!

[IvenBach]

As an American that learned spanish in central america, which geografically belongs to north america, Mexican spanish is just plain ugh... I'll admit that cubanos are way worse and I cant even understand them but mexican spanish just gives me the willies when I hear it spoken. As far as spanish goes every letter has one sound with very few exceptions.

Dont work blue boy, not every american sucks at pronouncing. I'm a bit out of practice but whenever I talk with people in spanish they all think I'm from Spain. It really catches a lot of mexicans of guard when I can look at em wink and then tell them in spanish 'I can understand everything you're saying'. Oh the look on some faces I've seen. You just have to put forth effort to train yourself to notice small and minor variances in how something is pronounced. Non-native speakers have a lot tougher time but once you notice the differences in your own language you catch on pretty quickly in others.

Bruenor I always think it as Brew-nor. Seeing as that's wrong I'll default to Oi! for our now. by the way not to derail but why do brits use 'oi' so much? I ended up on Hulu watching misfits and they used it a lot. Exposed me to a lot of wonderful new british words too!

[Balinor]

I don't want to get you blood pressure up kk, but I am genuinely interested. In Spanish class the teacher, being from Spain, lamented that she had to teach us Mexican Spanish per state requirements. She preferred her native pronounciation and shared it with us on many occasions. I wonder if that contributes to North Americans Spanish pronunciation issues. I can only remember a few. Z is either like c (s) or th. I think. Aaarrrg I can't remember. I only took that class because I had to and I didn't get an A, that's for sure.

I live in a large Hispanic community and if there is one thing for sure Spanish is a very diversified language. Much like English.
My coworker is from Dominican Republic, another is from Puerto Rico, and many of our clients are from Mexico and other Spanish speaking countries. Many times words have different pronunciations or meanings from one culture to another.

As far as the name Juan - the common pronunciation in our area is Wha-an not Yawn. I have never heard of any comparison to a ch sound before and I am curious now to know how Europeans tend to pronounce ch. In north central US it is pronounced as either a soft K sound or as in cheese.

This conversation is very interesting, I used to hire summer time workers from Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia and I was amazed at how different their use of pronunciation was compared to US or even western Europe. Polish might be the hardest language ever in my opinion.

[Balinor]

TMU I got the suspicion he wants to have it pronounced like when an American says his real first name Teemu, right?

Actually, all Americans I've talked to, say it as Timo, isn't it a German name as well?

I actually speak your name by pronouncing each letter.

I too thought it was an abbreviation and pronounced each letter individually. Perhaps due to the all caps spelling.

[TMU]

I too thought it was an abbreviation and pronounced each letter individually. Perhaps due to the all caps spelling.

Well, it 's fine with me if that is how you say it, I did it before too, but then I "shortened" it

[Balinor]

I too thought it was an abbreviation and pronounced each letter individually. Perhaps due to the all caps spelling.

Well, it 's fine with me if that is how you say it, I did it before too, but then I "shortened" it

Actually I like Timoo better if I am pronouncing it correctly now. Ti-moo where the i is like in "hit"? And stressed like Tibet?