Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
My birthname is anglicized French. The English form is well-known. I hate it. I cope. No one’s gonna get it right.
Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
My birthname is anglicized French. The English form is well-known. I hate it. I cope. No one’s gonna get it right.
crypto@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It’s a French name pronounced the English way?
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yep. It’s like Michel/Michelle/Michael, if the anglo form derived not from the Hebrew but the French form; and badly: Meekul (which isn’t bad by itself, but is just uncanny-valley weird).
To make matters worse, the discordant form is popular in some famous boomer/X vocalists; so I commiserate with Sade, a local clerk, and we get to eye-roll in unison about it.
Bah. It’s not peak-discordant (imagine a ‘Moy-KELLE’ that isn’t a Michaela), so it’s no significant source of stress; just a footnote . But enough about boring me.
renrenPDX@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m guessing it’s probably something along the lines of Aimee/Amy.