| Re: Do people read glossaries?
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Originally Posted by Ursa major  The world is full of important people whose names are not pronounced correctly on TV and the radio, the presidents of many countries included. (How many of us could pronouce the surname of Russia's president elect, Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, correctly? Clue: the use of the English-sounded syllables "med", "ved" and/or "dev" would, I believe, be incorrect.)
Why your characters should be treated any better than these real folk I can't imagine. | For two good reasons:
1. The pronunciation guide is more readily available in my book (only a few hundred pages away) than in real life.
2. My writing is more important than real life.
Last edited by Spectrum; 22nd April 2008 at 12:00 AM.
Reason: Fixed typo
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