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[jazzfish]

This is one of those mixed-moods things.

On the one hand, it's been a bad year.

On the other, Technicon got Steven Brust.

Comments

You know what would be funny?

[zerblinitzky.livejournal.com]

TCon people keep calling him Steven "Bruhst", as opposed to "Broost", and they found that he lives in a different place than they thought he did. I think it would be highly amusing if they actually got a different person, and just thought he was Brust. We would pay a whole lot of money for his plane ticket and everything, and he'd show up and be just some random guy...
On the other hand, maybe that wouldn't be funny.

Name Pronunciation

[vond.livejournal.com]

Correct them now, so they don't screw it up at the con in front of him. Please?

Re: Hahahahaha You Foooolll

[zerblinitzky.livejournal.com]

I've tried. Dave and I corrected them at the budget meeting, we were ignored. So I, at least, gave up.

[jazzfish]

<sarcasm>Wait, you mean Technicon staff are unwilling to listen to other people, and believe they know everything?
I bet you've got some bad news for me about the Pope, too.<sarcasm>

Re: Hahahahaha You Foooolll

[vond.livejournal.com]

Just takes the right touch - Lisa mentioned it to James in a phone conversation and it's all taken care of - hopefully he'll spread it to anyone else who was pronouncing it incorrectly.

GOB Club

[zerblinitzky.livejournal.com]

So... Dave or I correct them, and it's ignoreville, but a card-carrying Good Old Boy from Japan makes the merest suggestion, and they jump to change their ways? Hmm....

Re: GOB Club

[vond.livejournal.com]

No actually at first Crys thought James blew off the sugguestion of Brust altogether, so I wrote a vaguely nasty note to James and Ron, and got a REALLY nasty response, to the tune of "find someone in Japan who cares".

It has entirely to do with the approach. You're just demonizing to support your own opinion.

Re: GOB Club

[vond.livejournal.com]

Alternately, maybe just being a girl helps.

[kittenchan.livejournal.com]

Alright, here's what happened:

I called James Dunson to say hello (it's been awhile since we last talked). Vond and Ross had mentioned the Brhust vs Broost problem. So, as I've found, the best way to bring up something like that with James Dunson is to bring it up directly (but to approach him privately). I said that I'd heard that perhaps people had been pronouncing the new author guest's last name incorrectly. I asked if he knew how to pronounce it and he sounded unsure. So I told him the proper way. And then I sent him this email encouraging him to find out the facts himself and not to just take my word for it.

Subject: I just realized something..

I don't want you saying "lisa" or even "someone" told me the correct way to pronounce Brust.. I think you should check it out on your own :) here's a link to his homepage (and interesting place!) And I highly suggest his Vlad series (where there IS a pronunciation guide for his last name).

Lisa