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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: SF Pronunciation
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Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 08:38:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 28 08:38:15 1984
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I think that what I do with unpronounceables is about what I do
with really long names:  just use the random collection of letters
as a pointer to the character that my mind has assembled.  Of course,
this will only occur after several mentions of the character.  Another
help is that if the character is ever referred to by a nickname, I 
will usually use that as a handle.  I try to stay over 400 wpm (I
don't time myself, I'm just estimating based on my max of 800 on
newspaper articles (narrow columns) and 600 on most books), so I
usually don't labor over the name.  I just finished "Time Enough
for Love," and I was thrown a little by the fact that Hamadryad
was referred to as Hamadear, Hamadarling, and other such things.
Once, someone was asking a question, and to address it to her
added "Ham?"  I thought he was asking if anyone wanted some of
the salted pig meat.  (She's also called Hammy, and that's very
funny to us at this facility, but the rest of you won't get it...)
-- 
Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh