Oh, man. Foreign names and mental pronunciations! *facepalm* Adding up to even more fun when you actually say the name aloud when you're talking to someone else, and they go ".... wait, who?" >_>
First time this happened to me, I was maybe 7? My parents had picked up a set of 'Childrens Classics' which was easy-to-read adaptations of such books like Black Beauty, A Christmas Carol and, most important, The Three Musketeers. Cue me talking to mom about that last one, after I had finished it.
"Oh, and then Darten-Argen-" "Wait. Who?" "Darten-Argen! He... he shows up in the begining to be a Musketeer and gets his letter stolen-" "You mean d'Artagnan!" ".... who's that?"
No one had told me how the name was supposed to be pronounced, and the only other language I had any experience in was Spanish. (Through neighborhood and school.) I needed a mental 'sound' for his name, and that's how it ended up.
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First time this happened to me, I was maybe 7? My parents had picked up a set of 'Childrens Classics' which was easy-to-read adaptations of such books like Black Beauty, A Christmas Carol and, most important, The Three Musketeers. Cue me talking to mom about that last one, after I had finished it.
"Oh, and then Darten-Argen-" "Wait. Who?" "Darten-Argen! He... he shows up in the begining to be a Musketeer and gets his letter stolen-" "You mean d'Artagnan!" ".... who's that?"
No one had told me how the name was supposed to be pronounced, and the only other language I had any experience in was Spanish. (Through neighborhood and school.) I needed a mental 'sound' for his name, and that's how it ended up.