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Help[Opinions] Re: If a boy named Evan told me to call him ay-van, I'd punch him.
in reply to a message by blaaarg
Sorry I did not mean to sound pretentious or ridiculous. I just could not translate the french "E" into english but I guess the closest sound is like the E in Ennemy. Not sure about Evan as it's a welsh name, but Elise, as Aleeez yes, As it's a french name I should know. Christelle is pronunced like Chrees -telle (Michelle, Chanelle, chantelle). I live in Uk so I try to find (for later) names that are prunonced nearly the same ways in both countries. Tough !
Thanks Elena for support!
Thanks Elena for support!
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Oh!
I'm very ignorant and silly, sorry. I should have at least asked or bothered to find out if you were French.
I'll try again in light of new information: if you pronounced Elise aleeez and Evan frenchly, but didn't insist that everyone else did, it would be fine. (With me, I mean. Which is, you know, REALLY important. :P It wouldn't seem ridiculous or pretentious to me, anyway.) And I like both names a lot, actually.
My friend Judith Carolina "Carolina" is hoo-deet cah-ro-lee-na to her parents and Care-oh-line-a to everyone else, and it doesn't bother her. But if she went by Judith and insisted it be pronounced hoo-deet, I would roll my eyes at her a lot.
I hope this was slightly less rude. Sorry for being such a jerk :)
I'm very ignorant and silly, sorry. I should have at least asked or bothered to find out if you were French.
I'll try again in light of new information: if you pronounced Elise aleeez and Evan frenchly, but didn't insist that everyone else did, it would be fine. (With me, I mean. Which is, you know, REALLY important. :P It wouldn't seem ridiculous or pretentious to me, anyway.) And I like both names a lot, actually.
My friend Judith Carolina "Carolina" is hoo-deet cah-ro-lee-na to her parents and Care-oh-line-a to everyone else, and it doesn't bother her. But if she went by Judith and insisted it be pronounced hoo-deet, I would roll my eyes at her a lot.
I hope this was slightly less rude. Sorry for being such a jerk :)
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Don't worry everything is ok... At least we can commnicate so I do not think you are a Jerk now. It's so hard to write a sound ! If only we could hear the sounds on this website lol! You know the song a letter to Elise from the Cure? and the ad for Evan Almighty? Well If we hear the same way then I think we are ok on the pronunciation !Funny for the Hoo-deet, in french it's JU (like nude) dit'. LOL
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