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 insaniak wrote:

 Bangbangboom wrote:

Someone said names without written vowels can't be pronounced.

No they didn't.

They said that names just made up of consonants are unpronounceable.

Hebrew has vowels, they're just not written down.

Well, no they didn't.

Someone said a name must be pronounceable in NZ and then went on to give two examples that were not. One that had vowels and one that had none.

An example of how to pronounce the name without written vowels was given (by adding vowel sounds) by another user.

The original user then claimed that that was just them trying to make sense of a word without vowels ("you're adding vowels to make it pronounceable"?)

Paraphrasing that exchange as someone stating "names without written vowels can't be pronounced" seems adequate to me.

Also I never claimed that Hebrew has no vowels, I said that those that speak Hebrew would disagree that a name without written vowels can't be pronounced. The fact that they pronounce vowels but don't (normally) write them was the whole reason I included the modifier "written"

So yeah, there you go. I'm going back to look at the pretty pictures now that I have been reminded why I rarely try to engage in conversation on here.


Edited by insaniak. Please see Dakka's rule #1

 Bangbangboom wrote:

Paraphrasing that exchange as someone stating "names without written vowels can't be pronounced" seems adequate to me.

That would seem to be where you went wrong, then. Sticking to the actual argument being made is less likely to have someone point out that you're arguing a point that nobody was making.

Boom is an awful name. FFS. Would be a prime candidate to be on the banned list.

There was a time I would have been a little uneasy about needing some level of government approval for names. But that time has long passed now. I don’t know whether the deliberate misspellings of ordinary names or the made up names are worse, but either way I’ve got no problem at all with government shutting them down.

According to this Wikipedia page, some US states have name laws, so really it should not be a complete surprise to US people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law