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What if you move to a country where the language doesn't have one of the sound in your name. Like 'D' or 'V'? And you have to transliterate your name to fill fo
by jobigoud 11y ago
What if you move to a country where the language doesn't have one of the sound in your name. Like 'D' or 'V'? And you have to transliterate your name to fill forms.
It's a common problem for at least Russian and Chinese names which can't be spelled accurately with the roman alphabet.
As a concrete example, Japanese doesn't have a native 'V' sound, so your name would be slightly mispronounced.
- themartorana 11y agoAs I mention above, I'm not so obtuse as to have a negative reaction to someone making an effort to say my name as I introduce myself, because of a non-native sound. Different alphabets do introduce unique challenges, but across all languages using the same Roman alphabet, it's spelled D-A-V-E. (Or D-A-V-I-D if you insist.) But then, I've never had anyone in any culture besides my high school language teacher tell me my name was something different.