Posts by hvincent@scholar.social
 (DIR) Post #279738 by hvincent@scholar.social
       2018-09-29T01:00:21Z
       
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       @fribbledom i'm feeling this, too ._.
       
 (DIR) Post #301975 by hvincent@scholar.social
       2018-09-30T19:06:31Z
       
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       @fribbledom rocks :D
       
 (DIR) Post #9oSZ6Ezhl7Urc9olBQ by hvincent@scholar.social
       2019-10-30T15:19:17Z
       
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       wow, i really wish there was a way to opt out of the continuous flow of emails from the university about how, as someone who is employed by the university, i really should consider giving them money for all these great new initiatives coming down the line.i already did; it's called tuition, which i paid in full as an undergraduate here!!
       
 (DIR) Post #9y7P3UO5mfJDVeBzfM by hvincent@scholar.social
       2020-08-14T14:48:03Z
       
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       @Cyborgneticz kinda depends on the name, but sometimes I've had luck finding a video of someone with that name introducing themselves for some reason or another. sometimes i can only find someone else introducing or mentioning them, which doesn't guarantee proper pronunciation, either.also, finding someone with a similar language background who might be appropriate to ask for help
       
 (DIR) Post #9y7P3WZ9gVLYGXNrBg by hvincent@scholar.social
       2020-08-14T14:55:54Z
       
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       @Cyborgneticz qiufan can be broken up into qiu+fan; qiu sounds kind of like 'chyo' and fan is a slightly longer 'a' sound, like halfway between 'fan' (as in ceiling fan) and 'fawn'
       
 (DIR) Post #9y7P3Xi3Qu3joQYThI by hvincent@scholar.social
       2020-08-14T14:59:04Z
       
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       @Cyborgneticz also, when i'm saying a chinese name in an english context, i tend to flatten the tones because they don't parse well into an otherwise english sentence; i do this with my own name, and i generally don't expect anglophone speakers to pronounce chinese names tonally anyway.(obviously, i don't speak for every chinese speaker, this is just how i've settled lately as a native chinese/english bilingual person)
       
 (DIR) Post #9y7P3aSZCwSALGKeTQ by hvincent@scholar.social
       2020-08-14T15:54:54Z
       
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       @Cyborgneticz i know that feeling! with non anglophone names in a language that i don't have a lot of experience with, i try to hit some balance between 'not butchering it' and 'inflecting it too hard like it's an obviously foreign word'. when i was teaching mostly arabic students, i could hear a distinct difference between how they said each other's names if they were speaking english vs. arabic, which at least kind of cued me for what a reasonable english context pronunciation might have been.
       
 (DIR) Post #9y7P3brlyiD4hj8IOu by hvincent@scholar.social
       2020-08-14T15:59:13Z
       
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       @Cyborgneticz (and as someone with a non-anglo surname in an anglo context, i have a lot of complicated feelings about the notion of 'correctness' in how my own name is pronounced; i frequently get very well-meaning anglophones trying to pry the 'correct' pronunciation out of me, so they can 'get it right', at the cost of not listening to me when i give them the pronunciation i want them to use, which happens to not be the chinese one)
       
 (DIR) Post #9y7P3eSiKKwoksQpG4 by hvincent@scholar.social
       2020-08-14T16:07:43Z
       
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       @Cyborgneticz http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-surnames
       
 (DIR) Post #9y7P3gA00tAM1PguMi by hvincent@scholar.social
       2020-08-14T16:20:33Z
       
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       @Cyborgneticz high school you was doing their best!! feeling cringey at your past is a sign of personal growth :3