The pronunciation tip I can offer you today:
you can sing "Rabindranath Tagore" to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell"
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@brainwane Where did this come from?? XD
@RaoOfPhysics My own head, decades ago!
If you're asking why I remembered it today, it's because I came across a bit of (translated) Tagore https://kyraneko.tumblr.com/post/816634971541422080/grammarpedant-thefugitivesaint-rabindranath
@brainwane How do you get people to pronounce your own name correctly? Or have you, like I have, given up?
@RaoOfPhysics There are many situations where I just do not care enough to do the work of teaching someone else how to pronounce my name, and would prefer to spend that time doing something else.
But sometimes someone needs to introduce me on stage, or they are a friend or colleague who will be saying my name a lot (where I can hear it), or for whatever other reason I would prefer they get it right, or not jarringly wrong.
I provide a recording on my website at https://harihareswara.net/about/ . And in-person I scaffold their learning by using a word they're familiar with and that has pretty much the right cadence and vowel sounds: "rhymes with woman-uh."
