Since I am hosting the Copenhagen Perl Mongers x-mas lunch I thought about making a quiz/contest.
Since it is normal to drink alot of alcohol,the quiz is quite simple, but Perl related. You simply have to pronounce names of Perl book authors e.g.
Hallowpeenos, anyone?
Ovid on 2002-11-11T20:23:15
Well, speaking as a reluctant citizen of the good ol' US of A, if we can't even pronouce jalapeño correctly, I fail to see how we're going to figure out "Jarkko" (it's "yar-koe", yes?). Heck, some pronunciations are even open to individual interpretation. While some people pronounce "Ovid" as "ahh-vid" (which I am told is the correct pronunciation), I prefer "owe-vid".
Of course, I do agree that saying someone's name correctly is at least as important as adressing them as they wish to be addressed. I have a coworker who introduced himself as "Robb" and later let people know that he's changed his mind and prefers "Robert". I try to address him as "Robert", but everyone else seems to have ignored that. I think that's a tad rude.
Re:Hallowpeenos, anyone?
vsergu on 2002-11-11T20:38:34
But it's not the "Jarkko" that people remark on (and I believe you need to pronounce it with a doubled "k", as with Italian double letters). It's the "Hietaniemi" that was featured in the YAPC movie, and that to me seems to be pronounced pretty much as it's spelled, if you try not to be too American/English about it -- pretend it's Spanish or Italian (except that the "h" is pronounced): hyeh-tah-NYEH-mee, four syllables.
It's only 10 letters long, but that seems to be enough to trigger a panic reaction in some people. Plus, as we've seen previously with Byelorussia and Hyakutake, Americans seem to have a problem with consonant + "y" sound + vowel at the beginning of a word, unless the vowel and consonant happen to be from a particular limited set of combinations.Re:Names
jonasbn on 2002-11-12T08:17:26
Now I have corrected the speling errors thank you very much.
jonasbn
