[ SECRET POST #6595 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6595 ⌋

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Comments

[iff_and_xor]

I think they’re just referring to the fact that the other characters have just heard him pronounce his name aloud when he introduced himself.

Having him then explain the pronunciation out loud to them is awkward because it’s clearly for the reader, not the characters who he’s speaking to.

There are lots of ways of giving readers information that should already be obvious to the characters. Some of them can feel very clunky and some of them are a bit more masterful.

[(Anonymous)]

I have to say, as much as I detest JK Rowling, her way of telling people who were struggling how to pronounce 'Hermione' using a character who was struggling to pronounce it just because it's weirder than most names AND he was foreign, actually wasn't the worst way to do it.

[(Anonymous)]

Except people really do that if they know their name is weird to the people they're talking to?

Just off the top of my head, I met a lady who introduced herself in conversation as "my name's Feryal - like 'Ariel' with an F." It worked really well for her. She was dealing with westerners who'd never heard that name before and struggled to remember what it was and how it should be pronounced.