Name Pronunciation
Galina Thurby
First time reader of the Stormlight Archive this past year and obviously got sucked in quickly. I listened to Brandon's ROW release party last night and heard some of the character names pronounced for the first time.
I know Brandon doesn't care how people pronounce the names but man. Had to sit in a quiet room and stare at the wall for a while after that one. For anybody else who might be reeling the same way as me, here's a shardcast video where they attempt to pronounce names in the Cosmere. Minor name spoilers for other books, but nothing plot-wise.
This tag contains a phonetic guide to pronouncing the name contained in name=*. The name is transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), either using a broad transcription or a narrow transcription.
As with name=*, an ISO 639 language code can be included in the key to specify the pronunciation in a particular language. For example, if a feature is tagged with name:en=* and name:fr=*, name:en:pronunciation=* and name:fr:pronunciation=* can indicate the pronunciation in English and French, respectively. The :pronunciation suffix is also used on a several other name-related keys, such as official_name:pronunciation=* and destination:pronunciation=*.
name:iso15919=* is another pronunciation key in use, for the ISO 15919 transliteration standard for Romanized transcription of Indic/South Asian languages in particular. name:kn:iso15919=* is the most prevalent related key in use at the time of writing, for transcriptions of Kannada language names. The ISO 15919 system may be better suited for indicating pronunciation for Indic languages as it includes provisions specific to the phonetic elements they have in common. Bear in mind that while various letter-to-letter transcription charts exist, these serve as guides rather than exact mappings. If we were to use just rhe characters to derive a transcription of the same name in Urdu and Hindi, we would get a different outcome due to differents in the way the source scripts encode phonetic information.
As an alternative to tagging a feature with a name:pronunciation=* tag, the wikidata=* tag allows you to associate a feature with the Wikidata item describing the same feature. That item can be tagged with an IPA transcription statement. However, note that Wikidata items are subject to different inclusion criteria than OpenStreetMap features.
OSRM v5.2 and above includes the value of this tag in the RouteStep object. Valhalla exposes the pronunciation in a similar manner. [1] Mapbox Directions for Swift exposes this value as RouteStep.phoneticNames when connecting to an OSRM-powered server.
As recorded in the IANA Language Subtag Registry, IETF BCP 47 encodes IPA pronunciations as -fonipa, which would imply subkeys such as name:en-fonipa=*. As of March 2021, such subkeys have never been used and are unsupported in software. BCP 47 requires an explicit language code (primary language subtag), whereas name=* does not explicitly indicate a language. If multiple *:*-fonipa=* tags are specified, data consumers would find it more difficult to associate one of them with name=* unless *:und-fonipa=* is also specified.
My wife and I got into it one night over the pronunciation of Kvothe. And I too got into the Raistlin/Rastlin argument with my other geek friends in middle school. So I find this post highly amusing. Also I am glad to see I got Tarbean right.
if you want official guidance, i would consult an authority for the particular organism. for example, for plants in middle America, Missouri Botanical Gardens provides pronunciation and etymology guidance for a lot of plants (ex. =277224&isprofile=1&adv=ratibida)
Between Latin and (Ancient not Modern) Greek, they are both dead languages. Pronunciation for scholars in ivory towers? But I do like to know what the name means, where it comes from. Some are helpful about the distinguishing feature. Some are named for some random person - not necessarily a botanist with a link to that plant.
In support of the You Belong Here campaign for equity and inclusion at UT, employees can now add a phonetic pronunciation key to their name in Workday using the Change My Name Pronunciation task. Once submitted, it is visible below the employee's name on their Worker Profile.
For assistance creating their phonetic pronunciation key, employees can refer to the askUS entry, How do I add/update the phonetic pronunciation of my name in Workday? A link to this entry is also included in the help text for the Change My Name Pronunciation task.
"Hoor" isn't an English word. So if I read the name and had to speak it, I would have to guess. My guess for the correct pronunciation would be based on the pronunciation of words like door, floor, boor, and would unfortunately match exactly how I would pronunciate "whore". If I knew that it was the name of a little girl I would (hopefully) realise it and change the pronunciation, but I might not. (My dictionary also says that "hoor" is a rarer Irish or Scottish spelling of "whore", but few people outside Ireland or Scotland would know that, and I didn't before I just looked it up).
If your daughter moves to an English speaking country, or ever gets into a position where she has plenty of contact with English speakers, I think this name will cause your daughter problems. The word "houri" also has recently acquired some quite bad political connotations.
When introducing yourself in Portugal, should you try to say your name the way it is pronounced in Portugal or as it is pronounced at home? And do all names that start with R use the gutteral sound ( like Rui ) ?
All names that start with R are pronounced with a double R sound. Whether this is guttural or rolled depends on the regional pronunciation. In typical Lisbon pronunciation (the usual one taught in Portuguese courses), the R would be guttural.
Name pronunciation gives users and administrators the ability to record an audio sample of how their name is pronounced. The recording is then added to their profile page next to their name as an audio icon where anyone can select it to listen to the audio sample.
Under General Information from the Contact Card, select Edit and then Name Pronunciation. A new modal appears with the ability for the user to record an audio sample of how to say their name. Some users may also need to grant the web browser access when prompted to use their microphone.
High school sports star Noah Knigga has become quite the internet sensation for much more than his athletic accomplishments recently ... but he wants everyone to know his name is safe for everyone to say -- as long as it's pronounced correctly.
But friendly jabs aside, Noah -- a junior at Lawrenceburg High in Indiana -- is being recruited by multiple Division I schools to play football ... and recently won MVP honors in a basketball tournament over the weekend, so his game is no joke.
Students now have the opportunity to add their pronouns, as well as the pronunciation of their names, into Albert. Students can have this information displayed to faculty, advisors, and administrators in Albert, the NYU Home internal directory, as well as other NYU systems. Students can also opt out of having their pronouns viewed by their instructors, in case they feel more comfortable sharing their pronouns outside of the classroom.
For students that have indicated their pronouns should be used in the classroom, faculty will see the pronouns as well as name recordings on all class rosters in Albert. Rosters will be updated nightly should students add/update their information, so be sure to check back often.
Administrators can access pronouns and name recordings on the Student Services Center page by the Demographic Data link. Next to a student's pronouns it will also be noted whether or not the student has opt-ed out of their pronouns being displayed to faculty.
We are loving this feature - thanks so much! I did have to call in a student who recorded music instead of his name, though. So - adding in some oversight is crucial. Also, if there was a way to run a list that can be filtered by who does/doesn't have a name recorded would be very helpful. For now, I will have to run through all 1,350 students and write down the names of any that are missing to call them in. Additionally, I get to listen to all of those recordings to be sure they are appropriate! :)
Is there any documentation that lists all areas that name pronunciation will appear when pronunciations are added? I am especially interested in the student role - where the pronunciation will appear to teachers and advisors for student names? I reviewed the documentation for this new feature on the help site and it doesn't give any information related to where it appears after it is added onto records, only how to give rights for other roles to view the pronunciation. I tried testing on the test site but I get an error when trying to save a recording (error: unable to save recording).
I am very excited to see this feature! I am glad you started it as turned off until we are ready to work with it. I would love to see this expanded on by seeing the recording turned into a phonetic spelling that would appear under the name. However, I am extremely excited to have our staff and Students try this. I would also like the idea of a review process for the students recordings so that we can make sure that they are just recording their name. But, still super excited!!!!
Hi Kim! It is disabled by default. A Platform manager will need to go into the Profile Access settings and enable access for users. This is to allow schools to control who can record the name or to roll it out to faculty, students, or parents in waves by role.
I like the idea however, teenagers being teenagers, we do not want to give the students this ability without some sort of oversight (admin approval before publishing). It would have also been nice for admins to have the abilty to upload (manually or in bulk) any pre-exisiting name pronunciation files we already have attached to students in the Files section.
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