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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2003-09-08 11:20 am
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bow down to the inevitable

Maybe I should just change my name to Ronin, to save from having to correct people so often

[identity profile] peglegpete.livejournal.com 2003-09-08 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
So how does one pronounce your name? (Properly, that is.)
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[identity profile] waider.livejournal.com 2003-09-08 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
Well, pretty much as it reads. I know there's cultural differences and all, but converting "an" to "in" isn't normally one of them.

Amusingly, it does read more-or-less correctly if you treat it as three japanese syllables.

[identity profile] peglegpete.livejournal.com 2003-09-08 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Actually, I always though it was supposed to sound like 'Ronen'. I'm not entirely sure why -- perhaps it's some Southern pronunciation thing. Of course, now I'm giggling thinking of you as Ronan the Barbarian, with a slightly different emphasis on the 'Bar' part.
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[identity profile] waider.livejournal.com 2003-09-08 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's been done:

The book is one of a trilogy by James Bibby; they're sort of Pratchett genre, except that people die messily every so often. Some excruciating puns, but that appears to be a requirement if you're writing that sort of thing.

Oh, and Ronan the Barbarian is a six-foot dreadlocked black dude who's fairly clean-living. He does have a friend called Tarl who'd be closer to what you're envisioning for me - usually pissed as a newt and happiest when sitting next to a plentiful supply of beer.

[identity profile] peglegpete.livejournal.com 2003-09-08 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
Bwahahaha! That's awesome.
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[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2003-09-08 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
As that great man Geraint Jones once wrote to me, "English is such a schwaful language."
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[identity profile] waider.livejournal.com 2003-09-08 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
While contemplating that notion, I stumbled (mentally) across another aid to IRRADIATING WAIDER: sing my name to the tune of Rawhide.

o/` Ronan, Ronan, Ronan o/`

It's such a gas. No, really. Noone's ever done that before. You're the first. Hahah. Stop now or die.
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[personal profile] jwgh 2003-09-08 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Or you could change your name to Rone just to confuse or annoy the talk.bizarre folks ...
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[identity profile] waider.livejournal.com 2003-09-08 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
Well, we did share a room in Albuquerque the night before HOTT.BOB. Maybe we swapped branes overnight or something, and noone noticed.
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[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2003-09-08 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, i always tell the story of how your accent became surgically grafted on my speech the next night after i became slightly intoxicated, and then would not leave after i'd sobered up.

rone`n'Ronan! We fight crime!