Seems like 2 separate questions to me. Reading the name doesn't give you the pronunciation. Watching Four Weddings and a Funeral on the other hand...
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
EpicTangent - Jun 29, 2018 11:53:29 am PDT #25094 of 28199
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Sophia Brooks - Jun 29, 2018 4:09:52 pm PDT #25095 of 28199
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I only got it when I read a romance novel where there female protagonist 's nickname was Sinjun
DXMachina - Jun 29, 2018 6:06:59 pm PDT #25096 of 28199
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I learned it from a bad '60's era sitcom called O.K.Crackerby. Crackerby was played by Burl Ives and his assistant was named St.John Quincy, and the running joke was the assistant constantly correcting the pronunciation of his name by pretty much everyone.
Edited to note that it was effective, since I've certainly never forgotten the pronunciation.
Calli - Jun 30, 2018 1:30:51 am PDT #25097 of 28199
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I learned it from a mystery novel where an American character was mocked for pronouncing it as "Saint John" rather than "Sinjun". It's not so much that she didn't know the pronunciation right off the bat, but she'd been going on about how [first name] St. John was simply her oldest, best friend, yet she didn't know how to pronounce the woman's name.
EpicTangent - Jul 03, 2018 11:03:55 am PDT #25098 of 28199
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
$1.99 special on Bookbub today:
Heroine Complex By Sarah Kuhn
Evie Tanaka — beleaguered assistant to a supernaturally gifted, demon-fighting diva — is thrust into the spotlight when her own secret powers are revealed! "The urban fantasy we deserve. Sarah Kuhn is the total package" (New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire).
I saw her at a reading at Mysterious Galaxy and bought the book on the strength of the description and her reading. I haven't read it yet, but Seanan (the one I was at the reading for) recommends it!
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Consuela - Jul 03, 2018 1:46:47 pm PDT #25099 of 28199
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, I've read that, it's very fun. Very lightweight but entertaining.
Dana - Jul 12, 2018 9:54:01 am PDT #25100 of 28199
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Most of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries are on sale today.
Toddson - Jul 12, 2018 12:38:13 pm PDT #25101 of 28199
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
sigh ... I had the biggest crush on Lord Peter
Calli - Jul 13, 2018 8:22:01 am PDT #25102 of 28199
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I still do. And a subcrush on Bunter. Honestly, not gonna throw Harriet Vane out of bed for eating scones, either.
Dana - Jul 19, 2018 10:20:34 am PDT #25103 of 28199
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm not entirely sure where to put this, but nicked from Tumblr, the first Good Omens trailer: