2010-09-10, 09:32 AM
Where is butterfli? Damn it. Now I have to f`ucking explain. The name is Vietnamese, it's an extremely common last-name, and sometimes, even as a first name. Imagine.. "Bob" (first name), it's as common as that. Feel free to debate with me on this, but I've seen more Nguyens than Trans, or anything else. My God, even my last name isn't that common.
It's pronounced as:
[video=youtube;voX-_igZ_GI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voX-_igZ_GI[/video]
Last 3 seconds of video.
PS: It'd be really hard for me to type out how I would pronounce it, because I say it like that person did during the very last 3 seconds of the vid. A lot of Americans says Nguyen the easier way, because it's just too much time and effort to say it right. Similar to how I prefer people to pronounce my name as "Koi" IRL, while there's actually an "H" in my name, and they'll never get it right anyways. So the dumbed-down version is better, because some words, a lot of people aren't used to saying. It's like Nguyet, Nguyen, Tuyet, etc.
It's pronounced as:
[video=youtube;voX-_igZ_GI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voX-_igZ_GI[/video]
Last 3 seconds of video.
PS: It'd be really hard for me to type out how I would pronounce it, because I say it like that person did during the very last 3 seconds of the vid. A lot of Americans says Nguyen the easier way, because it's just too much time and effort to say it right. Similar to how I prefer people to pronounce my name as "Koi" IRL, while there's actually an "H" in my name, and they'll never get it right anyways. So the dumbed-down version is better, because some words, a lot of people aren't used to saying. It's like Nguyet, Nguyen, Tuyet, etc.