So I was thinking, what nationality do you think has the most difficult last names to pronounce? Like the ones you're most likely to mispronounce.
I thought that it had to be no other than Laotian people's last names. All of them have last names like Konekhamsompnou or Oubonlamphanh. I actually know of a kid who is of Lao descent and has a last name like one of those but much longer. But some Thai have ever longer and more complicated last names. Imagine what it's like to have their name called out on the first day of school lmao..
And it as this point that TBA has officially entered what I like to call the "dry spell".
Brace yourself.
kaczynski
or anything else polish
Probably Chinese... I mean they even use different pitches to talk...
judging from the names of their landmarks and volcanoes, i would imagine icelandic names being difficult to pronounce
Most polish names are annoying as hell because im not familiar with the language, but I like how some of them sound, like Mieczkowska, Pankiewicz, and Przybylski. They have some shitty affinity with the letter z that throws me off
My name Klopfenstein I don't find that hard to pronounce. some people just get tripped up by the P and put a lot of emphasis on it, when it sounds normally like the beginning of the F sound. They also pronounce the end steen. None of my teachers got my name right until like 10th grade when some of them had seen jewish/swiss/german last names. They always ask about my heritage after the pronouncing ordeal..
this is probably the most boring thread of all time somebody say something inflammatory and spark the rage of the back alleys' members
Quote from: Abnormal on March 4, 2012 01:21 AM
this is probably the most boring thread of all time somebody say something inflammatory and spark the rage of the back alleys' members
wat an abnormal thing to say
Quote from: MarcK on March 4, 2012 01:26 AM
Quote from: Abnormal on March 4, 2012 01:21 AM
this is probably the most boring thread of all time somebody say something inflammatory and spark the rage of the back alleys' members
wat an abnormal thing to say
ROFL. That was good.
little known fact there are 704 different ways of saying the surname smith and they are all fucking horrid
Quote from: MarcK on March 3, 2012 11:29 PM
Most polish names are annoying as hell because im not familiar with the language, but I like how some of them sound, like Mieczkowska, Pankiewicz, and Przybylski. They have some shitty affinity with the letter z that throws me off
agreeing with this
to put a finer point on it they aren't so much hard to pronounce as hard to figure out HOW to