Quote:
Originally Posted by ashley_  I never really thought about it being pronouced german even though i knew it was german....though i mispronouce a lot of things.....
so i usually either just say yorkie. or parti yorkie. or german buu*mumble*mumble* yorkie.  [I'm not sure if Somi is actually a Biewer or a Parti]
but i think i tried to pronounce it more like viewer with a b. I understand the w being pronounced with a v...but where does the r go? Why isn't it Beevaar?
I get irritated when people add the emphasis wrong in Joli's name...it's based on the Korean word for sleepy but people like to try to pronounce it like Jolie which is French.
And i'm pretty sure most people don't know what I say when I say Somi. I think a lot of people think her name is sony. (Also Korean based, for cotton ball/little beauty, depending on where you break up the syllables.)
So I can't even imagine actual complicated names. My name is super easy and people get that wrong. And my BF has to spell Choi everytime someone needs it. Like really? you can't spell Choi? lol. |
lol
Joli and Somi are very cute names. I would not have guessed their origins, but I like their meanings and the names themselves. I would have guessed the "Jolie" pronunciation as you said but because it is pretty common has kinds of been made 'famous' and the spelling would have looked like a customization to me. I'd have been wrong, as you have explained...lol How do you say "Joli" ? With names from other nationalities, it can be even trickier. The USA does not have its own language...it's a combination of a lot of the languages of the people who came year from other countries back then. You need a phonetic de-coder ring to figure it out. The gramatical 'rules' have so many exceptions and variations...good for jokes...lol Some things you cannot be too serious about, but nothing wrong with trying. I don't understand 'experts' pronouncing words related to their 'field' incorrectly, though. I feel like they should have seen that material in school...lol