dekedangle_rpfanon | #24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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See, in those cases, I just assume they're too busy trying to find a place in the NHL/ thinking it's too much hassle to correct other people about their name. (NHL announcers and broadcasters have a spotty record.)

Remember Grossmann? He played his whole freaking career before the Flyers with only one n on his jersey. These things happen.

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Oh totally. And I also think sometimes it becomes too much of a hassle to convince everyone that "no that really isn't how you say my name, despite the fact that that's how you've been saying it forever." And some guys just wait til their in a new market to say "aaaactually it's pronounced *****"

Or you have cases like Simon Despres who basically instructs everyone to pronounce his name incorrectly because it's easier than the alternative.

Yeah, broadcasters mess up on names, but that's not the same thing. In Sekera's case, he actually changed his "official" pronunciation between Carolina and LA and then again in Edmonton. I have no idea what is close to the real pronunciation. But all hockey players have an official pronunciation. At the beginning of each season, each team has to call the NHL and read out the proper pronunciations, and then the NHL spells them as you see in the link, and the person who reads it out is supposed to confirm that the phonetic spelling is the one they expected, and then that's the pronunciation all the broadcasters etc. are supposed to use.

http://www.hockey-reference.com/friv/pronunciation-guide.html

You're somewhat dependent on how your GM (or whoever ends up making the call) does in reading them, and on the person at the NHL, but the pronunciations mostly stay consistent from year to year, right or wrong. The spelling key they use has a lot of limitations. I just heard a guy on the radio say that Jason Zucker's last name rhymes with looker, which I had not realized before, if true.

This would be a lot easier if they just used IPA. I hate those dumb "phonetic" spellings, ugh.

(Sorry, it's just my personal pet peeve lol.)

Not a whole lot of people can read IPA, and the announcers generally couldn't then pronounce the names consistently during game play.

"Phonetic" spellings are useless and annoying for you and me, but that's about what you cam expect all the media as a whole to be able to do.

I had to learn IPA back in school when we learnt English, so I feel like announcers who get paid for saying names could at least try!! IPA isn't even that hard! ... But yeah, I know it's an unrealistic wish, lol, I just like to vent about it from time to time, sorry. :x

That would require someone at the NHL to actually know IPA, which is unlikely.

It wouldn't kill the announcers to learn the basics of the limited English IPA, which is really all they would need for reasonable approximations.

The Sekera thing makes me laugh because he's changed it so many times that it seems like even the broadcasters don't know what to do so you end up with a three pronunciation call. "Sekera from the blue line, err Se-ker-a, ahh Se-kra??"

That pronunciation guide is hilarious. Lol at all the Allens having different phonetics while they all agree on Smith. Also seeing Crosby as KRAWZ-bee cracks me up.

Oh, my. I never noticed that about the Allens before. SMH.

My favourite is the Browns.

BROWN
BROWN
BROWN
BROWN
PAT-rihk BROWN

Yeah, that is how Zucker is pronounced, or at least how everybody in the Wild organization seems to pronounce it.

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