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The Wikipedia article uses the name "Slava". His homepage on JPL website too (https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/turyshev/ https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/
by ithkuil 2y ago
The Wikipedia article uses the name "Slava".
His homepage on JPL website too (https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/turyshev/ https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/turyshev/)
I opened a random paper of his from arxiv and there too he uses "Slava".
Would it be possible that Mr. Turyshev uses that name as his preferred name (at least when writing in English) and that we should just respect his decision?
- protomolecule 2y agoThis decision is forced by it being hard for most English speakers to pronounce Vyacheslav.
- gambiting 2y agoSure, but is it his decision to make, and if yes - are we ok to respect it? I'm from a slavic country myself and my name is almost impossible to pronounce correctly in English - but I continue to use it anyway. If he wanted to do that, he could have done it.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoMy name is "Pavel", and usually ask Americans to put the accent on the second syllable - which is incorrect, but they can't pronounce my name correctly anyway when they put the accent on the first syllable, and it sounds more wrong to me than the way I prefer to have it pronounced. Apologies to all the other Pavels out there; I've been training everyone I've met to pronounce it wrong. But it's the way I prefer to be addressed.
- airstrike 2y agoNow I'm curious what the _right_ pronunciation is!
- pavel_lishin 2y agoYou can look it up on Youtube.