Certainly they know something the rest of the world doesn't - their own language :-). It has to be said though that our own good friend Jostein has most puzzling name to a non-Nordic ear. Apparently Norwegian language has more actual vowels than Russian which in turn has more of them than Hebrew. Thus as far as I can tell, my way of saying his name out loud is rather bad approximation. Although I tend to believe that Americans do it even worse, as he's certainly not Justine...
My way is Yoo-st-eye-n which is likely wrong at least at the first vowel... Teaching a Brit or an American to say certain sequences of consonant and a following vowel from Russian language can be quite a challenge. That person who decided to build a tower of Babel ought to have been flogged :-). On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2011, at 02:16 , Boris Liberman wrote: > >> It is pretty straightforward - Boris... There is one quirk though - in >> Russian I am borIs while everywhere else it turns out to be bOris... >> >> Boris > > Perhaps the Russians know something that the rest of us don't… > > > Joseph McAllister > [email protected] > > http://gallery.me.com/jomac > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
