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A Tokyo trip report

Posted Jul 19, 2007 7:22 UTC (Thu) by xuxa (guest, #29601)
In reply to: A Tokyo trip report by showell
Parent article: A Tokyo trip report

Along a similar off-topic tangent, Jonathan, how do you pronounce your last name? The katakana in the picture reads like "Corvette" with a B...

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Pronounciation

Posted Jul 19, 2007 12:50 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

It sounds like they got it about right then - it's pronounced with a hard "t", and not as if it were a French name.

I'll admit I worried a bit about the sign...for all I know it could read "crazy man from Colorado" or some such...:)

Pronounciation

Posted Jul 19, 2007 22:15 UTC (Thu) by ronaldcole (guest, #1462) [Link]

The katakana transliterates to "jonasan corubetto". And it is nice to be able to put a name to a face after a half a decade reading LWN.

Jon Corbet

Posted Jul 24, 2007 1:19 UTC (Tue) by alvherre (subscriber, #18730) [Link]