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It's a case of the Latin transliteration not having a "natural"/intuitive pronunciation in English and hence a made-up pronunciation being used.[0] I think tha
by gnomewascool 8y ago
It's a case of the Latin transliteration not having a "natural"/intuitive pronunciation in English and hence a made-up pronunciation being used.[0]
I think that the transliteration itself was "correct" (assuming that the original Ukrainian was Палагнюк).
[0] https://chuckpalahniuk.net/author/frequently-asked-questions-about-chuck-palahniuk#biographical-1 https://chuckpalahniuk.net/author/frequently-asked-questions...
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoWhere did the "g" (г) go, Palagniuk seems closer (or Palagnyuk may be better?). I know a little Russian, perhaps this is different in Ukrainian?
- gnomewascool 8y agoThe Ukrainian г is pronounced as something intermediate between English hard "g" and "h" (ɦ in IPA)[0][1], so it's often transliterated as h.[2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_alphabet#Letter_names_and_pronunciation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_alphabet#Letter_name... [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ɦ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ɦ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian#Tables_of_romanization_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian#Tabl...
- radicalbyte 8y agoIt's easier to just pick a varient which works in your new language. I've changed the pronunciation of my name because they Dutch have know idea how to pronounce it. They can't spell it either, however the phonetic spelling is close enough so I just let it slide. It's not worth getting precious when your name is unique enough.