Jon MastersThe latest episode (S2E3) of the Linux #KernelPodcast is now available wherever you get your podcasts, or at kernelpodcast.org and a transcript is available on the site website as well. Thanks for listening folks!
@kernellogger please tell me how to correctly pronounce your last name for next time π
Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)don't worry about that, I don't care.
It's a Dutch name originally spoken something like this:
https://forvo.com/word/leemhuis/#nl
I grew up near the Netherlands, but even there they pronounced it a bit differently, as people speak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Frisian_Low_Saxon in that area.
Both pronunciations are a bit odd for most Germans, that why I often use a different pronunciation.
And all three sound a bit odd in English, that why I struggle with my own name sometimes when speaking English myself.
Farce Majeure@kernellogger @jonmasters I have exactly the same problem.
@kernellogger @jonmasters you may think I'm joking (and to be sure, I am), but Jones is Welsh for "John's", as in the followers of the king who signed the Magna Carta under duress, so we pretty much all just pronounce it wrong.
@kernellogger @jonmasters but also my first name is obviously derived from Greek, and my middle name is Hebrew, and they're all just super duper common.
ha, the thought "is he joking" definitely occurred, but it was followed by a thought like "with names and pronunciation you never know, even if something looks simple"
Neal Gompa (γγΌγ«γ»γ΄γ³γ) 
@kernellogger @vathpela @jonmasters
Here's something to blow everyone's minds: I *know* how to say my name correctly, and I don't, on purpose with most people. Because when I say my name correctly, everyone else who hears it just goes ahead and says it even more wrong. So I go with the least bad wrong pronunciation so others don't screw it up worse.
(Explaining this to an Indian who complained I was saying my own name wrong was *fun*... π© )
Anisse@Conan_Kudo @kernellogger @vathpela @jonmasters yeah, people's reaction is disappointing π. Thanks for sharing.
Tobias Klausmann@Conan_Kudo @kernellogger @vathpela @jonmasters
I have quite a few Irish friends, so I'm used to the spelling of names having nothing to do with English or German pronounciation rules.
That said, I would have pronounced Thorsten's last name wrong, with a long u on the second syllable (and I would have gotten the first syllable right due to having lived close to Venlo for a decade.
Ah, language, what a mess!
Remember: it's spelled "Luxury Yacht", but pronounced "Throatwarbler Mangrove".