[hivemind] Look on my works ye mighty and despair

[Eternalknight]

yep its Hanh - pronounced by my linguistically challenged friends as Han - as in Han Solo...

I can't even phoentically represent it the correct way. It's Vietnamese.

Nice name. I thought it might have been Asian, but wasn't sure.

 

[KitanaVorr]

*looks at the ladies' thread*
Wow. Kitana is literally a rocket scientist. Neat.

lol i know...the irony!

 

[Angcuru]

yep its Hanh - pronounced by my linguistically challenged friends as Han - as in Han Solo...

I can't even phoentically represent it the correct way. It's Vietnamese.

THERE IS A WAY! Record your name into your computer mic if you have one. Save it as a wave file. Upload it to some website, and post a link here. THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY!...though this is a bit extreme.

 

[KitanaVorr]

Nice name. I thought it might have been Asian, but wasn't sure.

hehe obviously I'm not trying hard enough to reinforce my Asian-ess around!

(just j/k but nearly all my PCs are Asian and I think everytime someone asks for description, that comes up)

 

[KitanaVorr]

THERE IS A WAY! Record your name into your computer mic if you have one. Save it as a wave file. Upload it to some website, and post a link here. THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY!...though this is a bit extreme.

That only works if *I* can pronounce it. I don't have an Vietnamese accent.

Actually *cough* I have a bit of a southern belle thing going at times when I get excited.

Now how funny is that - a little asian lady with a southern accent.

 

[Eternalknight]

hehe obviously I'm not trying hard enough to reinforce my Asian-ess around!

(just j/k but nearly all my PCs are Asian and I think everytime someone asks for description, that comes up)

Nothing wrong with that. Actually it would make a nice change of pace from the same old caucasian PC's I have in all of my games.

 

[randomling]

Well... perks of being a phonologist, I know the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). Of course, most of it can't be represented in Verdana! But, Kitana, if you can tell me what each sound sounds like I can turn it into the IPA!

Can't put it here, but I could attach it in a Word file with a link to download the IPA font!

And there's me being sad.

I assume the first sound is like the [h] in "house", though?

 

[KitanaVorr]

yep

Haaaaa (this part I can pronounce)

then it gets funky...its got an accent an '.' dot if you under the 'a' so that it sounds alot like...er...I don't even know how to do it...

 

[Angcuru]

That only works if *I* can pronounce it. I don't have an Vietnamese accent.

Then call up your folks, find an old home video! You can do it!

Actually *cough* I have a bit of a southern belle thing going at times when I get excited.
Now how funny is that - a little asian lady with a southern accent.

Triple whammy on my list!
I like:
A- Little women.
B- Asian women.
C- Women with ANY accent.
Actually make that a quadruple whammy:
D - SMART women.

 

[randomling]

Is there an English word you can think of that has the vowel in it? (If not, that's OK.) Or, is there an English vowel that sounds quite like it? I can't do IPA well here but:

[a] like in "father"?
[ae] like in "cat"?
like in "mutt"?

Random guessing going on: is it a nasalised vowel? (One that's pronounced through the nose. Eg, does it sound like the end of a French word that ends with an "n"?)