There’s more than one way to spell Wraymound, said Jihll, and I have named my newborn, Ykjhasdbvsdflafaskjlhbsadf – which is pronounced “Ramon”. It will distinguish her from all the other Ramons in the world, and could easily become the feminine form of the boy’s name.
I’m having a difficult time in deciding on a middle name. I was thinking of Lhsadfkjhksadfijhwuefkljhsadf. What do you think? Sound-wise it seems to go well with Ykjhasdbvsdflafaskjlhbsadf. Ykjhasdbvsdflafaskjlhbsadf Lhsadfkjhksadfijhwuefkljhsadf Yjhgljhgwqrfkjhgwqhgwer-Blkjxzclhjsfadkjj sounds pretty attractive to me. I’m gravitating towards it.
Now I just have to convince my partner. She wanted to name the baby “Betty”. If she wants a Betty she should make one of her own.
Weave a Web 
All my life I’ve been deluding myself I can decipher English. Thanks for giving a shock to my grey sponge.
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Believe me – English (to me) is not as indecipherable as Hindi!
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It might seem so when you no nothing about it. Getting down to brass tacks, Mandarin is more likely to bag the honours of being the most undecipherable script there is.
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Mandarin uses simplified Chinese characters. If you really want to get serious Traditional Chinese as used here in Hong Kong is much more challenging. The tones are more difficult too. I once tried to ask for 4 slices of ham and inadvertently told the sales girl to hurry up and die.
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O Mamma Mia!
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I couldn’t cope with a tonal language like Chinese – I can’t hear differences like that!
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Neither can I Bruce. My wife always gets frustrated when I admit I can’t hear the differences when she is trying to teach me. To be honest even locals can struggle with the written language. Traditional Chinese is very difficult.
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When I was in Germany I could communicate in German after just a few days. I would go into a shop and say “Pall Mall” and the lady would hand me a packet of cigarettes.
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I deal with chemistry scripts of languages every day and to me the most indecipherable is Thai which is very square. It is also one of the loveliest to took at! The one that never fits on the page is Spanish!
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¡Diviértete!
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Oh the poor child! I often see names that are spelled eccentrically – sometimes I’m sure it’s to be different, but sometimes it seems obvious the parents just can’t spell!
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If you were to meet a numerologist out here, you may get counselled to spell your name as Aendreaa (for which you’d need to shell out a wad of Moolakadai!
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Ah, that’s what I’ve been doing wrong in my life….
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Never fear, Aendreaa – The Aeneid and Encyclopaedias have a similar problem.
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Yes – I see creative spellings all the time. It would drive me crazy having to correct people’s spellings of my name all the time. It’s bad enough constantly having the name of Goodman and having it spelt Goodwin all the time!
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I’ve also encountered children with “real” names that are pronounced creatively. (Think Asia, but pronounced I-sheeya.) Sigh–makes the morning roll call the hardest part of the day!
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Those traditional Irish names are the worst – they are pronounced nothing like they look!
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