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Help[Opinions] Re: To pronounce a name the way you want - disrespectful?
in reply to a message by Caprice
Names are Personal Nouns, and are only correctly spelled or pronounced as the owner of the name reveals it.
Also, many popular names we use today in English are far older than the English pronunciations or spellings which convention popularizes; even the alphabet used by romantic languages of modernity is nothing more than a commercial convention, standardized by the Printing Press, which proffered cost as the determining judge to dictate which of the characters or letters would survive.
My own name Barbra / Barbara / Varvara / βαρβαρα / Barbie (or any other spelling or iteration) bears the same meanings, however obscure or diverse: we are the same stammering foreigner, the same old lady, or the same beautiful, exotic stranger with a dignified, traditional maturity wrought with rigorous professionalism, while (as Barbie) we inherit the same the sparkling enthusiasm & bubbling beauties of an eternally capricious, ever regenerating youth. The evolution of names and words develop similarly among different cultures simultaneously . I find no disrespect in any alternate pronunciations or spellings of the same morpheme.
Also, many popular names we use today in English are far older than the English pronunciations or spellings which convention popularizes; even the alphabet used by romantic languages of modernity is nothing more than a commercial convention, standardized by the Printing Press, which proffered cost as the determining judge to dictate which of the characters or letters would survive.
My own name Barbra / Barbara / Varvara / βαρβαρα / Barbie (or any other spelling or iteration) bears the same meanings, however obscure or diverse: we are the same stammering foreigner, the same old lady, or the same beautiful, exotic stranger with a dignified, traditional maturity wrought with rigorous professionalism, while (as Barbie) we inherit the same the sparkling enthusiasm & bubbling beauties of an eternally capricious, ever regenerating youth. The evolution of names and words develop similarly among different cultures simultaneously . I find no disrespect in any alternate pronunciations or spellings of the same morpheme.
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