when will people learn...

[politicking.livejournal.com]

don't get mad at people for spelling your child's name wrong when YOU spell it totally wrong or out of whack (like the case of the girl i know who named her daughter Destiny Champane... or the spelling Ahmelya instead of Amelia), or get mad at people for pronouncing it wrong when you have spelled it in such a way that it looks NOTHING like it is pronounced!

cases i saw today: Kristie pronounced like Keer-stie... Laylah pronounced as Lie-lah... Briandan pronounced as Bran-don.

btw BRIANDAN? the kid is like 15-16 yrs old.

Comments

[djador.livejournal.com]

Poor Brian-Dan..that must be hard. =P

People are tards. There's just no other explanation sometimes.

[barelyshocking.livejournal.com]

I think that Kristie is a normal name. It would never occur to me to pronounce it "Keer-stee"..

[sloane-hd.livejournal.com]

That's like naming your child Kelly and saying "oh it's spelled J-E-N-N-Y".

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

If I saw the name 'Kristie' somewhere, and she would say to me 'It's "Keer-stee" I would automatically assume it was a typo and it was supposed to be Kirsty. You just can't get Keerstee out of Kristie!

I would pronounce Briandan like Brian-dan =P That's so bad!

Laylah pn. Lie-lah isn't too far of a stretch though. That's how we pronounce it here, too.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I would pronounce it Lay-luh, like Leila or Layla. Since it basically is Layla with an h, haha.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

People are so stupid. Argh!