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[quote=Anonymous]I pronounce names they way people say them to me. Even if they are from another country and the give me the American pronunciation. I assume they have their reasons and it's up to them. I think it's rude to insist on using the "correct" pronunciation.

Also, I've noticed that a lot of people who insist on always using the native pronunciation for things often get it wrong. They overemphasize or get the intonation wrong. It's like they are trying so hard to get it right that they overdo it and it sounds almost mocking or comical.

My mom is like this. We were talking to her about going to this tiny town in New Mexico called Chimayo. We pronounced it the way people there do -- "shim-aye-o". Which is sort of a hybrid between an American and Spanish accent, you hear that a lot in the Southwest. Most people in Chimayo are hispanic so I'm going to defer to them.

But my mom kept insisting on saying "chee-MY-oh" and really overemphasizing the second syllable. And she'd really isolate each syllable so it was almost like "Chee. MY. Oh." It was so obnoxious and unnecessary, and it felt like she was correcting us on how we said it but also this town of native Spanish speakers don't say it that way so she was wrong, which made the whole thing so obnoxious and weird.

So, yeah. I just say names the way the people the names belong to say them.[/quote]

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