this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025
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there's always going to be some of that, but i sort of naively expected people to be consistent enough in their mispronunciations that a native speaker (of the other language, not english) would be able to recognise what word they're trying to go for.
but this isnt even that, this is the name of an american. americans really should be used to asking how a name is pronounced and then being careful with it, cos there's names really are a wild wild west
Anglos managed to stumble into Chinese/Japanese "how this character is pronounced" problem, despite using alphabetical writing!
YES!
Let's hope they will adopt furigana.
I'm not at all joking about the autocomplete thing, to be clear. Kids learning to read have literally been taught to guess words based on the first couple of letters and the surrounding context. The rules of spelling to pronunciation correspondence - however complex they are - are treated as a fallback for when context and guessing don't work. I see it all the time. If they don't have the instinct to sound out words in a random paragraph, they're probably not going to start doing it for some random person that they aren't ever going to directly interact with.