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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #50 on: 10 May 2011, 17:52 »

I mean, I guess I pronounce my name like "cady" too
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #51 on: 10 May 2011, 18:24 »

How else does one pronounce Titania?

I am not going to bother trying to accent all the different parts of the word and use phonetic spelling.

It's just titanium without the u.
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #52 on: 10 May 2011, 20:09 »

You know, it never really occurred to me that titania and Titania are the same word.

Huh.
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #53 on: 10 May 2011, 20:57 »

tania is "tahn-ia" and rhymes with "lasagna". just do it that way and trust that me and my russian family know how to properly pronounce my name
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #54 on: 10 May 2011, 20:59 »

whatever, russians don't even speak english, how would they know
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #55 on: 10 May 2011, 21:02 »

believe it or not "tania" actually sounds exactly the same in russian as it does in english because it's, wait for it... a russian name! crazy i know
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« Reply #56 on: 10 May 2011, 21:08 »

Pfft, whatever Boris.
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #57 on: 10 May 2011, 21:36 »

maybe to you, communist
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #58 on: 10 May 2011, 22:44 »

well, boris is my middle name
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #59 on: 10 May 2011, 22:49 »

personally i don't really care how you pronounce my name but don't think that if you even dare spell it with a "y" instead of an "i" i won't find you and come over and cut you on the face because that is definitely fucking possible

I reckon that this might be a small price to pay for the chance to meet a member of beloved forum royalty.
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #60 on: 11 May 2011, 01:40 »

We all know there is the only way how we deal with these situations.



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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #61 on: 11 May 2011, 04:37 »

well, boris is my middle name

tania boris communistsky

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« Reply #62 on: 11 May 2011, 06:01 »

I reckon that this might be a small price to pay for the chance to meet a member of beloved forum royalty.

you hear that tommy? royalty
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« Reply #63 on: 11 May 2011, 06:03 »

remind me which one of the two of us is better again
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #64 on: 11 May 2011, 11:25 »

Oh, you don't have a big drawl?

I just remembered - back when I moved to Tennessee and I still went by just 'Ed', people had no idea how to pronounce it. It was hilarious, and I dealt with it more than you'd think likely.

"What's your name?"
"Ed."
"Adam?"
"What? No, Ed."
"Adam."
"No...Ayuhd."
"Oh Ed! Why didn't you say so?"
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #65 on: 12 May 2011, 05:16 »

I've known a few Tanya/Tanias who pronounced their own name "Tan-ya", can't remember any who went by "Tahn-ya".  Not saying either way is "proper."  If it's your name then it's your prerogative.  Similar to people who would swear to me that my name was actually Benjamin, because it comes from and Abrahamic root and my parents didn't know anything and they named me incorrectly.  Fuck off.  My name is Ben.  It's on my birth certificate and it's what I use to identify myself.
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #66 on: 12 May 2011, 05:29 »

My son's name is Nicolas, not Nicholas.  He's used to people getting it wrong. 

The reason is that the original Greek form of the name (Νικόλαος) has κ (kappa - which is transliterated as c or k), not χ (chi - which the traditional transliteration as ch implies).
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #67 on: 12 May 2011, 12:16 »

Similar to people who would swear to me that my name was actually Benjamin, because it comes from and Abrahamic root and my parents didn't know anything and they named me incorrectly.  Fuck off.  My name is Ben.  It's on my birth certificate and it's what I use to identify myself.

i used to know some people who would repeatedly insist that my name is short for anastasia which is understandable (i've known some girls named anastasia who go by ana/anna) but wrong. my birth certificate says anna.
this isn't really a thing i have to deal with nowadays though so yay!

i pronounce tania the russian way because i am russian.
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #68 on: 12 May 2011, 12:50 »

No, their names sound and are spelt the same as the shortened form of Benjamin/Anastasia. My name sounds and is spelt the same as the name of a type of bush, a month and a verb, but it doesn't mean that I am those things.
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« Reply #69 on: 12 May 2011, 12:57 »

My legit birth certificate name is Tavis but everyone and their dog spells it wrong/says it wrong so I just go by JD.
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #70 on: 12 May 2011, 12:59 »

your name is still a shortened form of benjamin

Why not Benvolio or Benedict, though?  Or Bennet, or Bentley, Benson, Benton, or even Benoni (the name given to the biblical Benjamin by his mother, before his father changed it).  Who are you, or anyone, to say that it's any of these rather than none?
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« Reply #71 on: 12 May 2011, 17:48 »

My actual legit birth first name really is just Harry. Sometimes people I've just met try to call me Harold or (less commonly) Henry but mostly they don't, probably because they realise that Harold and Henry are really dorky names.

Introducing yourself as Harry can be kind of awkward in formal situations, though. Fortunately I live in Australia and we're very rarely formal!
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« Reply #72 on: 12 May 2011, 18:24 »

well, in a formal situation, wouldn't Mr. (insert last name here) be a touch more appropriate? or does nobody actually do that.
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« Reply #73 on: 12 May 2011, 18:32 »

Oh of my workmates named her children Harrison and William, but they are just Harry and Billy always. Seems a bit silly to do it that way, but they are her children so whatever.
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« Reply #74 on: 12 May 2011, 19:51 »

Oh by the way I'm named after this guy:

http://www.npgprints.com/image/449148/walter-stoneman-sir-harry-owen-chalkley

He was my maternal great-grandfather.
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« Reply #75 on: 12 May 2011, 22:15 »

well, in a formal situation, wouldn't Mr. (insert last name here) be a touch more appropriate? or does nobody actually do that.

In my public speaking class the professor insisted we all address each other as Mr. and Ms. so-and-so. Which was cool and all. But now it's awkward when I see people around campus and can't think of their first name. People look at you funny when you yell out "Hey Ms. Lindamood!" to someone your own age."
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« Reply #76 on: 13 May 2011, 00:57 »

My name is Jonathan. Both my mom and I absolutely hate when people call me Jon. My name is not Jon, my name is Jonathan, if she wanted me to be called Jon, she would have named me Jon. But instead of Jonathan, I go by Jace, because my first two initials are JC, and Jace is the name of Space Ghost's sidekick, so my sister started calling me that when I was like 6 years old.
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #77 on: 13 May 2011, 03:42 »

I thought the thread title was Tommy vs. Tania
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #78 on: 13 May 2011, 03:56 »

Tania'll win, she has the biggest penis.
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #79 on: 13 May 2011, 03:57 »

But how does she pronounce it?
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« Reply #80 on: 13 May 2011, 04:23 »

With her mouth, presumably.
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« Reply #81 on: 13 May 2011, 09:09 »

But how does she pronounce it?

Pee-nis
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #82 on: 13 May 2011, 15:00 »

not pee-NIS?

peh-nis?

peh-nice?

pay-nis?

pen-nis?

pen-is?
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« Reply #83 on: 13 May 2011, 15:06 »

Pee-NUHS
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #84 on: 13 May 2011, 15:44 »

Tania'll win, she has the biggest penis.

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« Reply #85 on: 13 May 2011, 15:48 »

Out of that battle, stallion-junk.
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #86 on: 13 May 2011, 18:40 »

Tania'll win, she has the biggest penis.

come on though, we all know that against tommy this is barely a contest at all
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« Reply #87 on: 14 May 2011, 07:40 »

I heard he's been getting really pumped up for this contest though.
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« Reply #88 on: 17 May 2011, 22:18 »

What's the proper way to pluralize penis? I've been debating with a friend. Is it penises, penii, or penes?
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« Reply #89 on: 17 May 2011, 22:57 »

The Latin plural is penes; the English plural is penises.  Penii is never right in any language. 

The matter of which plural to use for "foreign" words is unclear.  Nineteenth-century grammarians often made a point of trying to (re-)introduce features of Latin, in particular, in English - some of which have stuck.  I follow the line that English is English and should follow its own rules unless another usage is overwhelming.  Is it in this case?  I live in Oxford, where Latin is not exactly unknown, but I have never in my life heard anyone say penes, even in a medical context.  OTOH, the Oxford dictionaries still record it as an acceptable usage.
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« Reply #90 on: 17 May 2011, 23:02 »

The Latin plural is penes; the English plural is penises.  Penii is never right in any language. 

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« Reply #91 on: 17 May 2011, 23:17 »

Who even says penis?!
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Re: Tanya vs. Tania
« Reply #92 on: 17 May 2011, 23:26 »

Doctors.
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« Reply #93 on: 17 May 2011, 23:43 »

I prefer the word 'doodle.'
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« Reply #94 on: 17 May 2011, 23:43 »

Or occasionally, 'willy.'
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« Reply #95 on: 18 May 2011, 00:14 »

I once knew a Peter Wang.
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« Reply #96 on: 18 May 2011, 00:22 »

Doctors.

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« Reply #97 on: 18 May 2011, 00:24 »

From now on I'd kindly ask you all to refer to the organ in question as a "piddle pencil".
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« Reply #98 on: 18 May 2011, 01:18 »

That is especially true if it has snowed.
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« Reply #99 on: 18 May 2011, 02:51 »

I once knew a Peter Wang.

At the last call centre I worked at there was a customer named Richard Wang.
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