Re: A little offtopic question. How last names of Roberto, Luiz and Waldemar are pronounced?
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- Subject: Re: A little offtopic question. How last names of Roberto, Luiz and Waldemar are pronounced?
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: 2003年7月07日 10:07:28 -0300
> but i thought about last names, which are difficult to understand how to
> pronounce for a non-portuguese-speaking (and reading) person (like me).
Actually my last name is quite difficult for portuguese-speaking people.
It is a Russian name, liberally translated from the Cyrillic alphabet by
some imigration officer when my grandfather came to Brazil.
I pronounce it more or less like this:
Ierusalimschy - Ee êh roo zah leems key
-- Roberto