Message: "Shyamala" - Behind the Name

Shyamala

by chazda (guest)

8/13/2004, 4:17 PM

I met a woman with this name. She pronounces it..

No, I'm not going to tell you yet. I wonder if anyone knows, or if her pronunciation is non-standard. How would you pronounce it?

I don't really care for it myself, but what do you think?

- chazda

#Shyamala

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- lala (guest) +2

8/13/2004, 5:11 PM

SCHA-mah-lah. Thats the proper Indian way to prn it

- chazda (guest) +1

8/13/2004, 6:07 PM

Oh you are here! I was hoping you'd have something to say about it. Do you mean there's both an S sound and a hard ch sound (like in chin)?

Why is the Y in there? Heh.. that seems like a silly question, but I wonder if it being there changes the pronunciation?

thanks.
- chazda

- lala (guest)

8/13/2004, 8:59 PM

Its SHAH with a "y" ish sound. Its kinda like when someone sayss "shyeah, of course I saw the TV special!".
KWIM?

Lala

- chazda (guest)

8/13/2004, 4:45 PM

I've never heard M. Night Shyamalin's name pronounced out loud.

Anyway yah, y'all are right. She says it SH(EE)AH-ma-la. The Y sound kind of gets blended in, so it's basically SHAHmala. I was confused by that for a bit when I saw the spelling.

By the way, she's a WASP, if anyone was curious. I haven't gotten a chance to find out the personal story of her name, I thought it was rude enough to push for the spelling when I'd just met her.

- chazda the ignoramus

- Array (WeloveyouJesseLacey)

8/13/2004, 4:39 PM

I'd say it as "SHAH-mah-lah", because it looks like a feminization of M. Night Shyamalin's last name.

I don't like it much, but the director is cool, so I've got good associations with it.

Array

- Claire (guest)

8/13/2004, 4:30 PM

I would see shee-a-ma-la or shya-ma-la...

- Rae (guest)

8/13/2004, 4:25 PM

I'd say it shy-AH-muh-luh, but I don't really care for it.

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