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Re: Bear-nd



Jon, Re:

> Insisting upon having your name pronounced correctly may result in a lot of
> hey you's. In Sweden, I am "Yan". In NY I'm "Jon". In Germany, you're
> "Bernd". In NY you are "Burned" or "Burr-Ned" (your choice).

Ha!  You have no idea how hard people try to please you once you challenge them
:-).  In fact, way more than half of the listers I met in NYC tried and
succeeded to pronounce my name correctly.  The award of having perfectly
pronounced both my first and my family name goes to Tim Herrlinger.  I couldn't
have done any better than him!

The extra award for a perfect Theatre German pronounciation of `Bernd' (with
strong guttural `r') goes to Litgo.  (Just FYI:  Modern High German usually
uses vocalized `r' near the end of a syllable, as in English `Walker'.  Theatre
German, however, insists on pronouncing every `r' as a guttural one.)

Maybe you should just try to explain to your Swedish friends how you like them
to pronounce your name?

Cheers,

Bernd