28 Mar
2007
28 Mar
'07
6:16 p.m.
THOMAS, BRIAN M (ATTSI) wrote:
PS Zeljko: In Hungary you do put given name first,
correct? and socially
it is proper to address or refer to someone by his given name? I'd love
to see a phonetic spelling of your name, which to an Anglophone contains
three consecutive consonants, though I know that 'j', descended as it is
from the Greek iota, is effectively a vowel in some Eastern European
languages... On the bright side, there's no chance of absent-mindedly
typing a more familiar (to me) spelling as I did to Gunter.
In Hungary, given names traditionally come after the family name. I read
this in Wikipedia because I'm not from Hungary. :) I'm not far from
the border, though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osijek#Institutions_and_industries
Hungary is straight above.
Although domain .hr associate to Hungary, their 2-letter ISO code is
"hu". "hr" stands for Croatia, because our local name is Hrvatska. I
was
surprised when I noticed that GMANE added national flag to my posts.
It is common here to write given name first, or to use encyclopedic
format: family, given (not so common)
I'm not sure how write it phonetically. It is made of 5 letters (first
has reversed caret on top):
v
Z e lj k o
Let's try pronunciation:
v
Z like first letter in "Jet'aime"
e like "a" in "fat"
lj try to say "l" and "y" at the same time
k as in English
o like "o" in "top"
You can record it and sent it to me to check did I described it correctly.