tbh it's sad that most lecturers don't teach the correct pronunciation of names like Dijkstra
although de Bruijn I can understand because that diphthong is, uh, cursed
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Bruijn is just pronounced as Bruin btw
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this unfortunately is not going to result in a correct rendering by the average english speaker
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sure but trying to pronounce bruijn as written is going to be a whole new hellhole
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(tweeted by person with a last name who most people give up pronouncing three letters in)
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been trying to get better at pronouncing names like 'Gödel' (kind of like 'gerdle' I think?) but yeah, I probably should practice 'Bruijn' more - I think in my head I say 'Broo-in', but I'm sure that is wrong 😬
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