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How do people mispronounce your Polish names?


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PolishLatinaThreads: 2
Joined: Nov 16, 07 		  Nov 16, 07, 22:32 /  #
Almost all my cousins have Polish names and they all get pronounced wrong by people who don't know the language so lets hear your name and how people say it wrong!
yagda   Nov 17, 07, 05:05 /  #
My name is Jadzia. someone pronounced it NINJA :)
PolsonThreads: 15
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My mother's name is Ewa (quite easy). But some people pronounce it in an English way -> Eła...LoL

:)
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Doesn't only happen with polish names. I'm not going to give mine away here, but you have no idea how many versions I have heard ;)
PolsonThreads: 15
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Oh, good you're here Mufasa, i can ask you a question about Dutch (if it's the same pronounciation as Afrikaan). How do you pronounce the letter "w" ? Like in English or like in Polish ?
"ij" makes the sound [aj], or [ej] ?...
PeterThreads: 5
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Of course you could live in a part of the world where they don't even bother to try and pronounce your name, even if you say it for them.............my surname is Konasiewicz and I've had teachers say it as sonofabitch
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In Afrikaans

Quoting: Polson
"w"


Sometimes like English na przykład

twee: two - Crooked polish fonetics: tłiy with i and y flowing into each other, almost like ej in Polish becomes one sound.

Sometimes like Polish na przykład

weet: know - Crooked polish fonetics: wiyt

This is nothing official - just my humble attempt - so please.

I'm sure a dutch person might be able to give a dutch example, but I am not clued up enough to think up one myself. There was a dutchman here a day or so ago. I'll check my threads.

Quoting: Polson
"ij" makes the sound


"ej" in dutch

In Afrikaans, it became "ei" or "y" - the "y" being an eventual combination of the "ij" written cursively :)
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Quoting: Peter
my surname is Konasiewicz and I've had teachers say it as sonofabitch


Aha !! They suck... :)

Thanks Muff ;) There are 2 Dutch football clubs i would like to say correctly : Twente and Walwijk (i think it's written like that)

:)
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Quoting: Polson
Twente


I'm not sure which 'w' sound would twente have - it may be either one.

Better to ask a dutchman :)
Patrycja19Threads: 79
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Quoting: Peter
my surname is Konasiewicz and I've had teachers say it as sonofabitch


lmao.. Peter you crack me up.. that is classic..

they dont even get to the first three letters of my dads name and its over with
but of course the only Polish names that are easy is the ones are the ones that
sound like they look..

like milewski etc.
Wyspianska Edited by: Wyspianska   Nov 17, 07, 12:20 /  #
ha they call me so funny always
my name is ewelina and Nate for example always just says 'lina' :D cant say full name

btw: i never knew how to write my name the best way for foreigner, to make him know how to pronounce it. so all i can do is call them and say it on my own at first
can someone write it?
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Quoting: Wyspianska
can someone write it?


eva is nice for american version or shorter version of you name.
Wyspianska   Nov 17, 07, 12:28 /  #
thx pati but i wanted to know how write polish way of pronounce 'ewelina'
hope u know what i mean :)
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I always thought it was spelled Polish as Ewalina and not Ewelina

so the way you would pronounce it was (eva-lina) because the W has a V sound to it
am I correct?

I dont know, I think there is better name experts then I on this forum.. I am still
learning myself.. but I do know some of the Americanized versions of Polish names'

:)
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Quoting: Wyspianska
can someone write it?

in the UK it would be Eveline or evelyn.

If i tried to proununce your name, I would get Ava-le-na, but I guess I would be miles wrong.
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you know whats funny I never thought there was a Polish way of spelling my name
which is spelled Patricia aka Patrycja.. but once I seen that there was it made me
like my name a whole lot more. :)))
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hey vincent, your name in Polish is Wincenty :) that is my dads name..

ok his real name was Wincenty Pawel
Wyspianska   Nov 17, 07, 12:40 /  #
hah so funny
pati is close about my name... not EwAlina but EwElina :)

thank u anyway :)
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Ah nice one. I always thought my name would be the same , as there is no "V" in the Polish alphabet. Thanks
okruchThreads: -
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perhaps Eveleenah?
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Quoting: Vincent
Ah nice one. I always thought my name would be the same , as there is no "V" in the Polish alphabet. Thanks


I always like the meaning of the names..
Wyspianska   Nov 17, 07, 13:01 /  #
Quoting: okruch
perhaps Eveleenah?

could be :)

thank u
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Quoting: okruch
Eveleenah


probably the closest you're gonna get wsp ;)

I speak Afrikaans though, and it would have been no problem for me to pronounce.
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They rarely attempt to say my surname. There are however bold ones who try, but it usually comes out awfully :)
beckskiThreads: 19
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Quoting: Bartolome
They rarely attempt to say my surname. There are however bold ones who try, but it usually comes out awfully :)


Ever since kindergarten, my surname has been slaughtered.

A sincere thanks PF, for putting up with me FIVE terrific years, muah!
PeterThreads: 5
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Quoting: beckski
my surname has been slaughtered


That's a precise way to describe it..................
PeterThreads: 5
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Quoting: Patrycja19
lmao.. Peter you crack me up.. that is classic


Here's another one then...............

My friend's surname is Kaczmarek and his boss pronounces it (at the end of the month when they are getting paid) as "cash my cheque"
pudddddinThreads: 8
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I think it happens all the time when people don't speak the same language. I'm a british teacher in Poland and I have never heard a polish person pronnounce my name correctly and that includes my Polish boyfriend who i ahve been with for 2 and a half years (his pronnunciation of my name IS getting better though!)
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Quoting: Wyspianska
i never knew how to write my name the best way for foreigner, to make him know how to pronounce it

Try something like just 'EVIL'.
Just a thought. Not the best one though.

Here's a question:
Guess what Cud & House Key is supposed to be.
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My mom's maiden name is 'Trzop' and there is no chance in hell anybody who isn't Polish would be able to pronounce that....
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