The Suju Names Post!

[halcyon_morn]

Are you ready to see the depths of my linguistic geekdom and the extent of my procrastination? Prepare yourselves, because this is

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[chanbanana]

While I am extremely anal on how the names are pronounced, I'm so happy you made this. So now I don't have to watch youtube videos going "REEEYOOOO-WOOK" ahahah

[halcyon_morn]

Yeah. It may be too much to ask for every English-speaker to pronounce their names perfectly-particularly when it comes to Ryeowook and Eunhyuk-but I think most people should be able to handle the English approximations, at least. ;D "REEEYOOOO-WOOK" = *shudder*

[chanbanana]

I've heard some realllllly flippin bad pronunciations on all of them. I'm not even Korean and I knew they were saying it wrong. REEYOOOWOOK~

[halcyon_morn]

Fun fact: my middle name is anal retentive. ;D

[jain]

This is seriously awesome. I am so impressed.

[halcyon_morn]

Thanks. Hope it's of some use.

[polyurethane]

I was totally planning on doing a voice post to help my friends that I'm trying to convert with the pronunciation since neither of them knows Korean pronunciation.

And this post has definitely helped me.

Especially since I now know that I have been pronouncing their names right all along. ♥

[halcyon_morn]

That sounds like an excellent idea! If you do end up doing it, it'd be awesome if you'd let me link to it from here.

[polyurethane]

I guess I'll have to leave it public then. XD

[halcyon_morn]

XD Yeah, you would. It's ok if you don't feel comfortable, but it would be a great supplement to this post.

[coyotecolored]

*raises hand and waves it madly* 8DDD so is there a reason the 'h' appears to be completely unvocalized/dropped in several cases? this puzzles me and I took notes through about half a Korean textbook yesterday and the day before

[halcyon_morn]

*calls on you* There is! When /h/ is syllable-initial and there is a coda in the syllable before it (coda being a consonant after the vowel/vowel cluster), then the coda replaces the /h/. If the coda is /k/, /p/, /t/ or /ch/, it becomes aspirated. *runs off to double check, but is pretty sure that's what the rule comes to*

[coyotecolored]

my textbook neglected to mention this! although it said some other things about /h/ which I can't be bothered to go check my notes for. thank you!

[halcyon_morn]

Yeah, I can't seem to find an interwebz page that explains it, but I'm pretty sure I'm not making things up. XD Ooh, also, syllable-final ㅅ + syllable-initial ㅎ = ㅌ.