Comments on: Name Out Loud http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/16/name-out-loud/ Christopher Finke is a software engineer at Mahalo. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Leah Hills http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/16/name-out-loud/#comment-21063 Leah Hills Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:16:03 +0000 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/16/name-out-loud/#comment-21063 I think I should go on that website and say my name is just pronounced Serenity. =) I think I should go on that website and say my name is just pronounced Serenity. =)

]]> By: Christopher Finke http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/16/name-out-loud/#comment-20047 Christopher Finke Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:15:05 +0000 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/16/name-out-loud/#comment-20047 Joost - Mine is a very German family :-). I'm told that Fink-EH is most likely how it was pronounced when my great-great-great-(great?) Finke grandparents lived in Germany, but that apparently changed at some point. Good luck with your name ;-) Joost - Mine is a very German family :-). I'm told that Fink-EH is most likely how it was pronounced when my great-great-great-(great?) Finke grandparents lived in Germany, but that apparently changed at some point.

Good luck with your name ;-)

]]> By: Joost Schuur http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/16/name-out-loud/#comment-20046 Joost Schuur Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:08:40 +0000 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/16/name-out-loud/#comment-20046 If you were a native German speaker (it's a very German surname), it would be pronounced differently than you just did it. In German, it's more like Fink-UH (or Fink-EH), and not Fink-IE. Ask me how confusing it'll ever get for me, if joost.com takes off. They pronounce it 'Jewst', the proper Dutch way of saying it is 'Yohst' though. If you were a native German speaker (it's a very German surname), it would be pronounced differently than you just did it. In German, it's more like Fink-UH (or Fink-EH), and not Fink-IE.

Ask me how confusing it'll ever get for me, if joost.com takes off. They pronounce it 'Jewst', the proper Dutch way of saying it is 'Yohst' though.

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