How are your forum names pronounced correctly?

[Starhelperdude]

Like on some names I have problems, beeing a non-native english speaker

for example I always thought Vanamonde was Vananamonde

or damonvv damovv

so: let's talk about how your name is pronounced correctly or someone elses

for example mine is Star- Helper- Dude,  pretty easy I would say

[kerbiloid]

Mine is never pronounced. Only written. No KSP fans at the place.

37 minutes ago, Starhelperdude said:

for example mine is Star- Helper- Dude,  pretty easy I would say

Unless you pronounce/not pronounce "r" after vowels.

Edited March 8, 2021 by kerbiloid

[Nuke]

totally not like how its spelled. 

[Caerfinon]

"kyer-fee-non"

[JIMMY_the_DOG]

jimm-ee-theh-dawg

You can thank my cousin's dog's name, as I didn't really have any other users!

[Gargamel]

Gargamel....  emphasis on the "c" sound. 

[Superfluous J]

Sue-per-flu-us-jay

Sue like the girl's name. Or that one boy from that song.

Per as in "meters per second."

Flu as in the illness I got every year until 2020 because I spent all of that year inside washing my hands.

Us as in "Both of us"

Jay as in Blue Jay.

Edited March 11, 2021 by Superfluous J

[Cydonian Monk]

Debatable. Because English is weird and modern pronunciation of Latinized Greek words (and classical Latin in general) is horribly broken. So Hard C/Soft C, whatever works. Anglophones will usually say soft c "sigh dohn eee ahn" but technically a hard c "kigh dohn eee ahn" is more correct, given derivation from Κύδων and Κυδωνία. (Don't quote me on my terrible phoneticization there. lol)

5 hours ago, Nuke said:

totally not like how its spelled. 

New-Key it is then!

Edited March 9, 2021 by Cydonian Monk

[BigFatStupidHead]

Just use the capitals as an indicator of where the syllable ends. So it's Buh-Igfuh-Ats-Toopiduh-Ed. Simple!

[Dafni]

Mine is originally german, so native english speakers usually mispronounce it at first. It's meant to sound like Duffny.

Daf works too, it's how I usually get called, sounds like Duff.

 

[Starhelperdude]

1 minute ago, Dafni said:

Mine is originally german

 

ooh

[MKI]

Mine is unpronounceable, I've heard "Mickey", like Mickey Mouse.

You might ask, "where did it come from if you can't pronounce it?".

Simple, look down on your average QERTY keyboard and find the keys.

[OrdinaryKerman]

3 minutes ago, MKI said:

Mine is unpronounceable, I've heard "Mickey", like Mickey Mouse.

You might ask, "where did it come from if you can't pronounce it?".

Simple, look down on your average QERTY keyboard and find the keys.

I thought it's pronounced 'Mark-i'.

Mine is straightforward to pronounce, as it's completely uninspired. ordinary kerman

Edited March 10, 2021 by OrdinaryKerman

[razark]

Pronounce it however you want.  It's a text forum, I'm not going to hear you anyway.

[Gargamel]

10 hours ago, Superfluous J said:

Sue-per-flu-us-jay

Sue like the girl's name. Our that one boy from that song.

Per as in "meters per second."

Flu as in the illness I got every year until 2020 because I spent all of that year inside washing my hands.

Us as in "Both of us"

Jay as in Blue Jay.

Let me try.....   ahem...... FiiiiiiiffffHooorseman.  
 

 

How’d I do? 

[PigeonThePilot]

pee-jon-da-pay-lot

[StrandedonEarth]

My name cannot be properly pronounced by human vocal equipment, but a reasonable approximation is “Kzanol;” Kiz-(rhymes with Liz)-an-all. But try not to pronounce the I at all., like in “Kzin”

So I  find it easier to go by my status here, StrandedonEarth. That should be straightforward to pronounce. 

[razark]

Rather surprised to not see a "Raymond Luxury Yacht (pronounced ‘Throatwobbler Mangrove’)" reference yet.

[kerbiloid]

1 hour ago, StrandedonEarth said:

That should be straightforward to pronounce. 

1 hour ago, StrandedonEarth said:

_straightf_orward

1 hour ago, StrandedonEarth said:

pronounce

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[YNM]

It's clearly written underneath it, just not in Latin-derived characters (or Greek-derived for that matter). (for the convenience of mobile users, it's 「ヨーッスノットマイン」).

17 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

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English and their weird pronunciations. Though at least they aren't running out of sound combinations to use I suppose.

Edited March 11, 2021 by YNM

[tater]

 

[Starhelperdude]

1 minute ago, tater said:

 

I just have to say this once:

my name in the game Armored Warfare is Tater78 xD

[kerbiloid]

Spoiler

 

[tater]

Just now, Starhelperdude said:

I just have to say this once:

my name in the game Armored Warfare is Tater78 xD

Many years ago on a ww2 online flight sim (with a graphics quality barely above that of a flip phone, lol) I was "Spud." I chose the name because having just started, and not knowing I would continue doing it, I assumed I'd fly about as well as a spud. The guys would say, "later, tater" when I'd <S> and log. That game went away, and I switched to WarBirds, and Spud was taken, so I switched to tater so people from the other sim would recognize me, and just stuck with it.

[Geonovast]

With a 'G', like in 'Gif'.