Talk:IA/@comment-36423898-20181120141830/@comment-53539-20181203052423

I honestly don't think it matters, not 100%. Accents and so fourth tend to make it say names.

I think unless its right off, everyone knows who your referring to. That would be examples by the Spanish pronunciation of "Jade" being "Yay-aid" because Spanish has issues with the letter "J" sounding different then the English "J". And even then, it takes getting used to but one can work out mentally that "Yay-aid" is "Jade". I myself can't pronounce "Aron" right because of the "Ar" bit, its my accent... My real life name is "Emily" pronounced in English as "Em-ma-lee" but the rest of Europe pronounces it as "E-mill-lee". You can correct it a few times, but you can't keep correcting someone or it gets silly. I take more offence to being called "Emma" then how "Emily" is pronounced. Its pointless to pursue the correct pronunciation if someone can't say it though, so if they can't get it right after one or two tries... Just give up as its likely they can't easy do it.

Its only when you have to form sentences and making "E" and "I" sound separate becomes an issue... Damesukekun once said I believe the problem with westerners saying "Kawaii" is they say it "Kowaii"... One means "Cute" and the other "Scary". So... You can see how pronunciation when it comes to communication of words is a lot more important for reasons. Saying "Tell me the direction to the bathroom" becoming "tell me the direction to the ballroom" (I have no examples, this is made up) would be fine if you don't mind peeing on a piano instead of a urinal, but sadly others may have an issue with that.

The fandom tries to put too much thought into the pronunciation thing, while its nice to be able to pronounce something its only the odd nit-picker who will take offence.