The pronunciation of "Mxsmanic"

Tom   Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:37 pm GMT
Mxsmanic, how do you pronounce your nickname?
"Em-ex-ess-manic"?
Thanks,
Tom
Geoff_One   Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:59 pm GMT
Not surprizingly, I have also pondered over the pronunciation
of his pen name/nom de plume.
Lazar   Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:41 pm GMT
I pronounce it as Tom suggested - [EmEksEsm{nIk].
american nic   Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:50 pm GMT
I think it should be MEX-manic. I don't know why. It's just shorter and easier to say.
Kirk   Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:52 am GMT
I always assumed it was [EmEksEs"m{nIk]. That's how I always imagined it in my head. Of course I could be wrong, as before I thought of Lazar as [l@"zAr\] till he let us know he said it ["le(I)z@`]. By the way, I finally realized why I instinctively thought of it as [l@"zAr\]. I have a friend whose last name is "Lazar" and he pronounces it [l@"zAr\].
Uriel   Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:54 am GMT
I've always said "mix-manic". What's the point of a name where you have to spell out half of it?
Lazar   Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:58 am GMT
<<Of course I could be wrong, as before I thought of Lazar as [l@"zAr\] till he let us know he said it ["le(I)z@`].>>

Well actually it's [le(I)zAr\], rhyming with "quasar".

There's pretty much only one way to pronounce your name, though. ;-)
Jim   Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:35 am GMT
I've read it as "Maxmanic".
SpaceFlight   Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:37 am GMT
I've read ''Mxsmanic'' the same way Jim has, probably because ''Mxs'' is not too far away from ''Max''.
Uriel   Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:38 am GMT
Ah, well, you'll always be "la-ZAR" to me... ;)

Hmmmm.

Quasar = Quasi-stellar object.

Lazar = Lazy stellar object?
Lazar   Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:40 am GMT
<<Quasar = Quasi-stellar object.

Lazar = Lazy stellar object?>>

Ha ha, good one. ;-)
SpaceFlight   Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:50 am GMT
How about blazar? That's also a word http://www.aavso.org/observing/programs/hen/blazar.shtml .
SpaceFlight   Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:54 am GMT
They have a picture of a blazar on that link.
Kirk   Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:11 am GMT
<<Well actually it's [le(I)zAr\], rhyming with "quasar".>>

Oops! Thanks for clarifying on that!

<<There's pretty much only one way to pronounce your name, though. ;-)>>

Haha--yup. Altho it's notoriously difficult for nonnative English speakers to pronounce, having /3`/ and ending in /k/. I didn't adopt a Spanish name when I studied abroad in Argentina and I was called everything from [ki4S] (by my host mom) to [ki4(k)] to [ke4(k)].
Tiffany   Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:18 am GMT
I pronounce it Maxmanic :) And you'rI'm with ya Uriel, Lazar will always be la-ZAR!