If you changed your name

[Kayenneh]

You know how most people with chinese names have given themselves english names when they come to N. America or other western places? Because it fucking sucks to have your name mispronounced 9 out of 10 times and furthermore, have it misspelled by people who can't spend 3 more seconds to check how they spelled a foreign name.

Yeah, well, try being a linguistic minority in your "own" country, and people are still not able to spell your name correctly.. Not even Scruffy can pronounce my surname right!

[kılıç_mehmet]

If you changed your name what would it be?

Ay Tengride Kut Bolmysh Teymür Tegin

Namely, prince Teymür who has been blessed by the Holy Sky God.

[pineapplebunnybounce]

You know how most people with chinese names have given themselves english names when they come to N. America or other western places? Because it fucking sucks to have your name mispronounced 9 out of 10 times and furthermore, have it misspelled by people who can't spend 3 more seconds to check how they spelled a foreign name.

Yeah, well, try being a linguistic minority in your "own" country, and people are still not able to spell your name correctly.. Not even Scruffy can pronounce my surname right!

I was once, XD, still am but now it's a foreign country so it doesn't feel as bad. And really, unless you speak mandarin, there's no way you can pronounce my name right. No way. But I have an "acceptable pronunciation" for everyone else, XD. But I have met people whose name I couldn't pronounce on my first try, I memorize their spelling and learn how to say it. Basic courtesy.

[kılıç_mehmet]

Yeah, well, try being a linguistic minority in your "own" country, and people are still not able to spell your name correctly.. Not even Scruffy can pronounce my surname right!

I was once, XD, still am but now it's a foreign country so it doesn't feel as bad. And really, unless you speak mandarin, there's no way you can pronounce my name right. No way. But I have an "acceptable pronunciation" for everyone else, XD. But I have met people whose name I couldn't pronounce on my first try, I memorize their spelling and learn how to say it. Basic courtesy.

Write the name down and I'll try my best to pronounce it.

[Cato]

Mister Mxyzptlk

[BrokenQuill92]

My name is pronounced wrong half the time. It should be pronounce Alaina (uh-lay-nah) but a good chunk of people pronounce it Alina (a-leen-ah)

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I'd probably change my name to something sparkly

[pineapplebunnybounce]

I was once, XD, still am but now it's a foreign country so it doesn't feel as bad. And really, unless you speak mandarin, there's no way you can pronounce my name right. No way. But I have an "acceptable pronunciation" for everyone else, XD. But I have met people whose name I couldn't pronounce on my first try, I memorize their spelling and learn how to say it. Basic courtesy.

Write the name down and I'll try my best to pronounce it.

People always say that when I phrase it like a challenge, lol. But there are no alphabets for the right pronunciation, so the spelling itself is misleading, and I don't know how to describe the pronunciation because there is no equivalent in english or any other languages I know. And it's not really inadequacy if you can't pronounce sounds you've never had to learned, it's to do with muscle memory, your tongue actually physically cannot produce the right sounds. You can train it to, has a certain amount of plasticity (learning capacity). Nor can you really distinguish different sounds in other languages if your language is less nuanced in that department. That's why when you learn new languages, people say you're saying it wrong but it sounds completely identical to you. And you have no idea what they're talking about. Like in the 70's show where Fez couldn't tell the difference between "ted" and "tad", I can't either.

Anyway, not sharing my name on a public forum, it's too unique, it's not going to blend in, it'll show up if I'm googled.

[kılıç_mehmet]

Write the name down and I'll try my best to pronounce it.

People always say that when I phrase it like a challenge, lol. But there are no alphabets for the right pronunciation, so the spelling itself is misleading, and I don't know how to describe the pronunciation because there is no equivalent in english or any other languages I know. And it's not really inadequacy if you can't pronounce sounds you've never had to learned, it's to do with muscle memory, your tongue actually physically cannot produce the right sounds. You can train it to, has a certain amount of plasticity (learning capacity). Nor can you really distinguish different sounds in other languages if your language is less nuanced in that department. That's why when you learn new languages, people say you're saying it wrong but it sounds completely identical to you. And you have no idea what they're talking about. Like in the 70's show where Fez couldn't tell the difference between "ted" and "tad", I can't either.

Anyway, not sharing my name on a public forum, it's too unique, it's not going to blend in, it'll show up if I'm googled.

Well, since I guess its chinese, there are various romanization methods, of which I'm sure you know of.
Besides, you can never know without trying.

[pineapplebunnybounce]

People always say that when I phrase it like a challenge, lol. But there are no alphabets for the right pronunciation, so the spelling itself is misleading, and I don't know how to describe the pronunciation because there is no equivalent in english or any other languages I know. And it's not really inadequacy if you can't pronounce sounds you've never had to learned, it's to do with muscle memory, your tongue actually physically cannot produce the right sounds. You can train it to, has a certain amount of plasticity (learning capacity). Nor can you really distinguish different sounds in other languages if your language is less nuanced in that department. That's why when you learn new languages, people say you're saying it wrong but it sounds completely identical to you. And you have no idea what they're talking about. Like in the 70's show where Fez couldn't tell the difference between "ted" and "tad", I can't either.

Anyway, not sharing my name on a public forum, it's too unique, it's not going to blend in, it'll show up if I'm googled.

Well, since I guess its chinese, there are various romanization methods, of which I'm sure you know of.
Besides, you can never know without trying.

Yes there are, we use alphabets but alphabets aren't pronounced like they are in english.

You know what, I'll PM you the actual characters that you can chuck into google translate and it'll pronounce it for you. Try that. But you'd probably think you nailed it without a native speaker around to judge you. I'll pm it to you if you'll send me a recording of you trying to pronounce it .

[kılıç_mehmet]

My name is pronounced wrong half the time. It should be pronounce Alaina (uh-lay-nah) but a good chunk of people pronounce it Alina (a-leen-ah)

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I'd probably change my name to something sparkly

Aleyna? We have that name in Turkey.
As far as I'm concerned it means "Those who are in good grace of God" in Al-Arabi.

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Well, since I guess its chinese, there are various romanization methods, of which I'm sure you know of.
Besides, you can never know without trying.

Yes there are, we use alphabets but alphabets aren't pronounced like they are in english.

You know what, I'll PM you the actual characters that you can chuck into google translate and it'll pronounce it for you. Try that. But you'd probably think you nailed it without a native speaker around to judge you. I'll pm it to you if you'll send me a recording of you trying to pronounce it .

I will.