Saturday, February 11, 2012

The Driver by Garet Garrett - Book Review

5 comments:

  1. Will someone explain to me, please, how a literate human being can look at this combination of three letters - Ayn - and conclude that it is pronounced "Anne"?

    Just curious.

    JR

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    1. Thanks for questioning my literacy, Mr. Just Curious.

      The mispronunciation of her invented name (she herself described it as such), is common enough to warrant entire articles on the subject, and a substantial explanation in the FAQ of the Ayn Rand Institute. She's had to address the subject in her letters and didn't seem to get her panties in a bunch over it.

      From now on, please refer to me as Roman Mykolaievich, and lord help you if you mispronounce it.

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    2. If I record something with a proper name in it and don't know how to pronounce that proper name, I make it my business to find out - just as, if I write something and use a word I don't know how to spell, I check the spelling. I guess I'm "of the old school." I figure parading my ignorance (or my slipshod, half-assed negligence) doesn't improve my chances of making a positive impression on my listeners and readers.

      JR

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    3. Well, Holy Moley! It seems my illiteracy, "ignorance," and "half-assed negligence" has cost me a viewer.

      Thanks for the constructive criticism.

      When will the Objectivist police be arriving to take me away? I'm a danger to myself and the people around me.

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  2. Faced with an unfamiliar series of letters, it is not uncommon to default to the closest familiar word in one's language.

    Still, there's not much excuse -- if you know anyone else who has read her, you have probably heard it pronounced correctly.

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