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Nothing wrong if you leave in Brazil, Spain, Portugal or some of the countries where it is common / normal name, or if your origin is from some of those places.
by markokocic 14y ago
Nothing wrong if you leave in Brazil, Spain, Portugal or some of the countries where it is common / normal name, or if your origin is from some of those places. But imagine that someone in Brazil give his child a name like: Vukašin, Milutin, Slobodan, Dejan, Jirži, Mbutu. I bet verry few people would be able to evn pronounce it.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoThat's the selling point of romance languages: very easy pronounciable by anyone. Anyone can pronounce Ronaldo.
- mahmud 14y agoJapanese would have a hard time with the "R", Arabs would have a hard time with the "o". Not "everyone" can pronounce Ronaldo.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoI argue that Ronaldo -> Ronardo is still much closer/more intelligible than, say, Vukašin -> Vukasin [especially if you pronounce it with american u and a and get [vakeisin].
- mahmud 14y agoOnly because of the two soccer players named Ronaldo whose name has been heard by every football fan on earth. There is nothing intrinsically "easy" about the name itself.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoMarco, Paolo or Carlo are even easier.
- rwhitman 14y agoRonald is not that easy to pronounce in Japanese or Korean...
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- guard-of-terra 14y agoKoreans should not have any problems: 런알도? "Ronald" is harder which is my point exactly.
- rdouble 14y agoI see your point. Many names are culturally/ethnically loaded. It would seem odd if an Chinese-American guy was named José or a Mexican-American guy was named Cheng.