Facebook/my office

[ounceofpeace.livejournal.com]

I stumbled upon a friend of a friend on facebook named Maraya Noelani. I think it is absolutely gorgeous. WDYT?

I also thought I'd post the names in my office, since we have a few unusual ones:
Zahava
Lance
Ioana (pronounced Ya-na, with short a's)
David
Kathy
Whitney
Carole
James
Sam (Samantha)
Ben (Benjamin)
Givi
Andy (Andrew)
Jarrid
Eliza
Claire
Ikuko (pronounced E-coo-co)
Lydia
Rachel
Mae (Eddiemae)
Caryn
Renae
Maurice
Grace
Damaris
Lindsay
Megan
Sarah

Comments

[ounceofpeace.livejournal.com]

The Ioana in my office is Romanian. I feel like the pronunciation of the Ioana you knew is more intuitive.

[satunian.livejournal.com]

Since that's literally all I know of Romanian, I wouldn't know for sure - and also it's entirely possible that people would have slightly different pronounciations in different regions of Romania.
I just found it funny because I grew up in a fairly Russian neighborhood in New York and knew a Yana (well, actually I think I knew three, maybe four, but one was a good friend of mine so she's the one I mainly think of) so there was a difference to me when I met a Ioana. Though honestly, everyone called her I-O-na (eye-own-ah, she told me when she was younger they called her Ioana Toyota) so even she introduced herself with that pronounciation most of the time.