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[angiewarhol]

dear white people

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[thenextlife]

I am so guilty of pronouncing Juan "won". But at least I know how to pronounce Jose, because I grew up in San Jose ;-)

[evildork]

Dear Angie,
I've heard you say "Kair-ee-oo-kee" instead of Ka-Ra-Oo-Kay.

Pwned.

Love,
Ben

[angiewarhol]

dear ben,

suck my ballz! :p

love,
angie

[fretless29]

I must confess that my spanish pronunciation is crap. Of course I didn't even take it in school. Honestly, none of the languages offered held any real interest for me at the time. So I took German, thinking it would be easier because its more like english. Now I'm really confused... can I have a taco? I won't put sour cream on it, I promise.

[styloroc_2000]

that's funny, I have a friend named Juan who actually hates it when people pronounce it with a heavy H accent.

[angiewarhol]

send him over to me so i can beat the white out of him.

[opiumatic]

...and Juan in Russian would be Хуан.
No one can mispronounce that because it's written phonetically using the alphabet and grammar of the corresponding language. Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if people started changing the spelling of their names according to the phonetic rules of English when they're using their names in the US of A. You simply can't expect a regular born American (or anyone else for that matter) to know every language out there or even what a "spanish" word looks like since they share the latin based alphabet... my 2 cents. When I look at Juan in English context, I see "Jew-unn".

[angiewarhol]

then i would have to spell my name "anhelleeka"

hells bells!

[opiumatic]

that's pretty cool! is that how your name is prounounced in Spanish? how does a g become an h sound... I'm guessing it's a harder "h", probably like "g" in "grammar".