[Scgeeks] Re: how to pronounce [Was: [Bug] headers parsing bug [extra Received: headers found]]

[Mike Easter]

Andrzej Filip wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> Andrzej Filip wrote:
>>
>> I found out/ heard/ how to pronounce Andrzej the Polish way and the
>> not-quite-so-Polish way here:
>>
>> http://www.stanford.edu/~skrz/MyName.htm  My name is Andrzej
>> Skrzypacz. ... Here you have an example how to pronounce my name in
>> Polish. ... I understand that it may sound difficult. So I suggest
>> (i.e. recommend) an easier version.
>
> I do not really expect non polish speakers when *speaking* english to
> use original (polish) Andrzej instead of its english equivalent Andrew
> (expect *very* formal occasions). But I do expect you to *remember*
> you use "substitute" when you use Andrew.
>
> P.S.
> Do you suggest that Andrzej is too hard for you to *write*? ;-)

The link doesn't pronounce Andrzej as Andrew but as An-jay^2 in the
anglicized version and something like An-zhay^3 in the 'polished'
version.

(I'm joking/teasing and contrasting anglicized and polished here.)

Yes.  Andrzej is hard for me to write.  I have to copy it letter by
letter as I can't remember how to spell it correctly.

Which reminds me;  as long as we are on the subject of pronouncing
names.  Brett Favre the quarterback has chosen to let the world most
particularly sportscasters pronounce his name 'farve' rhyming with carve
and starve.  But, according to Gregory E. Favre^1, most of the
Mississippi Favres of which Brett derives do not pronounce their name
farve, but instead pronounce it 'fuave' rhyming with suave in a French
sort of way.


^1 "I knew Brett's grandfather, and his mom attended high school with my
younger sister. But I left home long before he was born, and I've never
met him." -  http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=71&aid=124160  What's
in a Name? - By Gregory E. Favre
^2 http://www.stanford.edu/~skrz/unj.wav  ^3
http://www.stanford.edu/~skrz/andrzej.wav


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin