Comments on: A Summer Full of People http://www.loudmurmurs.com/2009/06/24/a-summer-full-of-people/ "Be the change you wish to see in the world." — Mahatma Gandhi Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:24:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=7529 By: David Drucker http://www.loudmurmurs.com/2009/06/24/a-summer-full-of-people/comment-page-1/#comment-19056 David Drucker Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:42:56 +0000 http://www.loudmurmurs.com/?p=1356#comment-19056 Thanks, Ryan! I figured that you or Rebecca could correct that if it wasn't accurate. Funny that the lady in the booth got it wrong. Thanks, Ryan! I figured that you or Rebecca could correct that if it wasn’t accurate. Funny that the lady in the booth got it wrong.

]]> By: Ryan Cousineau http://www.loudmurmurs.com/2009/06/24/a-summer-full-of-people/comment-page-1/#comment-19052 Ryan Cousineau Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:55:44 +0000 http://www.loudmurmurs.com/?p=1356#comment-19052 "Ντρυκυρ" is probably more correct for your last name, sigh, and I haven't put in the accent marks... “Ντρυκυρ” is probably more correct for your last name, sigh, and I haven’t put in the accent marks…

]]> By: Ryan Cousineau http://www.loudmurmurs.com/2009/06/24/a-summer-full-of-people/comment-page-1/#comment-19051 Ryan Cousineau Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:53:57 +0000 http://www.loudmurmurs.com/?p=1356#comment-19051 Your confusion about the "phonetic" spelling of your name in Greek is understandable but still wrong. In modern Greek the "∆" (delta) is a voiced "th" sound, not quite the same as the "th" in "those." The hard "D" at the start and end of your name is a sound foreign to Greek as she is spoken, and therefore is written using the "NT" (ni taf; known to classicists and mathematicians as nu tau). Several other Greek letters have similarly unexpected pronunciations and several other common English phonemes have surprising diphthong transliterations. F1 racer Jenson Button's name transliterates as "Τζενσον Μπωττον" (or ΤΖΕΝΣΟΝ ΜΠΩΤΤΟΝ" in the slightly more comprehensible caps (David = Νταβιντ Ντρυκυρ" or something close to that) Your confusion about the “phonetic” spelling of your name in Greek is understandable but still wrong. In modern Greek the “∆” (delta) is a voiced “th” sound, not quite the same as the “th” in “those.”

The hard “D” at the start and end of your name is a sound foreign to Greek as she is spoken, and therefore is written using the “NT” (ni taf; known to classicists and mathematicians as nu tau).

Several other Greek letters have similarly unexpected pronunciations and several other common English phonemes have surprising diphthong transliterations. F1 racer Jenson Button’s name transliterates as “Τζενσον Μπωττον” (or ΤΖΕΝΣΟΝ ΜΠΩΤΤΟΝ” in the slightly more comprehensible caps (David = Νταβιντ Ντρυκυρ” or something close to that)

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