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WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
Zog:
--- Quote from: jwhouk link=topic=33691.msg1377934#msg1377934 date=[quote author=Akima on 30 Mar 2017, 16:01 ---
And I would pronounce it "Ah-KEE-mah", as I read it right now...
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That is how I would pronounce it also. Is this incorrect?
94ssd:
Tai appears to be missing her POW tattoo?
pwhodges:
As I recall, Akima's forum name and avatar are is taken from the character Akima Kunimoto, a spaceship pilot in the 2000 American animated film Titan AE. The character is voiced by Drew Barrymore. As the name suggests, the character is Japanese, and so the pronunciation should be something like ah-kee-mah with no predominant stress on any syllable.
(Correction - I think her avatar is Dana Tan from the Batman Beyond series.)
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 31 Mar 2017, 13:17 ---
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 31 Mar 2017, 07:05 ---My name is Alison. I often shorten it to Ali. People decide that's to long and shorten it to Al. :meh:
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I have a hypothesis that people are anti-end vowel. My name is short, usually misspelled, and people like to stick an r, s, or both at the end. My boss even did it.
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I'm fairly sure this depends on the native language of people. My experience is that, when turning names into nicks, English speakers have a tendency to drop vowels from the end, often with a view of reducing the number of syllables. I guess they find the resulting word less stressful to pronounce. For Fiinnish speakers it is the opposite. For ease of pronunciation a word pretty much has to end with a vowel. Those difficult to pronounce groups of consonants, on the other hand, are in dire need of simplification. If the name does not end with a vowel we add one (often adding an extra syllable as a by-product). To take a semi-universal example: 'Christ' is the basis of many first names in the christian world, producing 'Chris', 'Kris', 'Christine', 'Kristina' and what not. For Finns the end result is 'Risto'. With a syllable break between 's' and 't'.
When my first name 'Jyrki' (one of the versions of 'Georgios' mutated into while travelling from the Mediterranean up North) is nickified, the common way is to drop the 'r', and replace the ending 'i' with 'ä', to comply with the rules of vowel harmony, to produce 'Jykä' - a much easier to pronounce two syllable word.
TinPenguin:
I had the misfortune to grow up in a city with a local parish pronounced the same as my last name, but spelt differently. It's a common enough name in Lancashire, but Nottingham folk just could not spell it right.
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