Is the "i" pronounced as in "I", the pronoun? Or as "ee"? What about the "R"? Is it an "r" like in the English language, with the tongue folded towards the back of the palate? Is it a rolling "r" like it's common in Spanish, Portuguese and many other languages? Is it a scratch sound produced by pressing the back of the tongue against the soft palate like it's common in Portuguese, Hebrew and others?
About half the people I encounter pronounce my last name "wrong", I correct them if I'm in the mood to care, and that's it.
> If you wanna be called Riza, call yourself Riza, don't make me fill in the blanks or extrapolate, that's not how reading works.
Your post is "technically correct - the best kind of correct". Unfortunately, it doesn't add anything at all to the discussion. Thanks for the effort but at least in my case, it only served to increase confusion a little.
I get it, it's a bit annoying but nothing worth the effort of squeezing.
I don't care how these people want me to say their name. Worcester is like Manchester but with wor instead of man for me.
American English still indulges etymological and traditional spellings for heaps of words. In cases like “fillet” and “valet” American English goes with “French” pronunciation.
I recall seeing an American somewhere in France getting frustrated when hotel staff couldn't understand what he meant by "maître-d", with his emphasis increasingly placed on the 'dee' as he got more and more annoyed.
(disclaimer: Brit here, not defending our pronunciation of Worcestershire)
> (disclaimer: Brit here, not defending our pronunciation of Worcestershire)
The Americans typically pronounce it some form of "Wooshishurr".
I used to live in Massachusetts, and my wife would complain about the British-inspired place names and their local pronunciation. "I'm from Louisiana, I can't with your New England names! There's no 'lemon' in Leominster!"
I would gently remind her of how 'Natchitoches' is pronounced; it's certainly not as written.
British English is even less consistent, using the French pronunciation of "valet" for one of its two meanings and the Anglicized pronunciation for the other meaning.
If you want a less controversial example use the word “one” and consider the voiced labial–velar approximant.
If RZA calls himself "riza" then that be how is pronounced.
My name is "eegor" not "eyegor" is not what you want to call things is how they are pronounced.
Besides I don’t fsck calls itself something unless we are talking about AI or some shit.
For example I never call GUI “Gooey” but others do and that’s fine.
Neither GUI nor RZA is an acronym really unless we plan to make every abbreviation an acronym.
PS I am part of the f-sick camp
Bring the motherfscking ruckus!
If you spend most of your time immersed in text and not much time immersed in speech, you might develop a bias towards thinking the written word is the primary form.
For “fsck” you could make a case that it comes from a primarily written culture.
However I suspect that would quickly evolve in to "Arse".
> I call him R.Z.A not Riza cause that ain't how that shit is written.
I know rza is wholly unaffected by your pronunciation of his name, but I implore you to rethink this behavior with people actually in your life.
Pronounce other peoples names the way THEY want you to, anything else is just narcissistic.