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Help[Opinions] Re: Americanized Pronunciation, how do you feel about it?
in reply to a message by kmexico
I feel that it's okay to pronounce it as it would be said in my own language.
I feel that to move to a country other than the one of your birth, and then expect its natives to peform what if for them a tongue-twister is presumptous.
People moving to America have long realized this. I have a Korean-born friend who realized that his name would be very difficult to pronouce for Americans, so he took an English name, David. My great-grandfather, who was born in Austria-Hungary, was Josef, pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable, but he didn't object to Americans pronouncing it with the emphasis on the first syllable. My great uncle was Jacob, pronounced in his native country YA-KUB, but he took the name Jack in America.
If I moved to France, I know that people would pronounce my name, Janice, Ja-NEES, and I'd be okay with that. Why should they try so hard to pronounce something that is difficult for them?
Immigrants to America have adapted themselves to America, and that's how I feel it should be.
I feel that to move to a country other than the one of your birth, and then expect its natives to peform what if for them a tongue-twister is presumptous.
People moving to America have long realized this. I have a Korean-born friend who realized that his name would be very difficult to pronouce for Americans, so he took an English name, David. My great-grandfather, who was born in Austria-Hungary, was Josef, pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable, but he didn't object to Americans pronouncing it with the emphasis on the first syllable. My great uncle was Jacob, pronounced in his native country YA-KUB, but he took the name Jack in America.
If I moved to France, I know that people would pronounce my name, Janice, Ja-NEES, and I'd be okay with that. Why should they try so hard to pronounce something that is difficult for them?
Immigrants to America have adapted themselves to America, and that's how I feel it should be.
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