All the unfamiliar names of people or places

Yes, I mean all the unfamiliar names of people or places in an article, news report or blog post. Usually there are so many unfamilar names of people or places in what you're reading, which may impede/hamper your reading. This can be a problem. I wonder how you'll deal with it.

Some names of people or places are so hard to spell or pronounce. Maybe you never tried to pronounce or get familar with them. You may just ignore them and continue your reading because you know they are just certain names and you don't need to remember all of them - you may only need to know just someone was saying or doing something somewhere, for example, you know "a MyEC mod - say, Expector - just said in his hometown - say, Jinlin, China - he found it hard to pronounce or memorize all the unfailiar names of people or places". In this case, you didn't bother to pronounce or get familiar with the names "Expector or Jinlin", but you got it very well.

Or you don't think it's a problem for you, or you're a native English speaker and never find it hard to read all the unfamiliar names of people or places. Just share your thoughts with us, nevertheless.

Incidentally (by the way), it may be another story to talk about most popular English names of people, say, Mark, Jacob, Max, Caroline, etc.

And, you might also find shahab's blog interesting.

English tip: "say": suggest/suppose something, for example: Let's add something to it, say, an apple.

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Expector Smith October 19, 2014 9:19

@DIMI

You're welcome!
Expector Smith October 17, 2014 14:32

@March

Thank you for the comment. Maybe we should try to pronouce and get familiar with every unfamiliar name of people or places we encounter, especially the real names.
Expector Smith October 16, 2014 14:06

Hi Mr.Bob,

Thanks for the comment. Maybe I should do the same when I'm trying to pronounce or spell unfamiliar names of people or places.

I recently recognized my MyEC name "Expector" might remind people the word "expectorant", a medicine that helps you to cough up mucus. I might have been expecting something to happen instead of trying to expectorate when I signed up here and named myself Expector.
Mr. Bob October 15, 2014 11:54

If I'm reading I usually guess the pronunciation of foreign words. If a word is unknown to me and I have a moment,mi will look it up. Expectorant is what comes out every time I type Expector Smith because the iPad dictionary recognizes one as a word and tries to change the other automatically. This Autocorrect dictionary causes me problems many times and I have to go back and change words.
Expector Smith October 14, 2014 10:43

@mitran

Thank you for the nice comment. Yes, Smith is easier to remember than Expector. I'm familiar with your name "mitran", though I'm not sure if I can pronounce it correctly. "Thuong" is harder to pronounce than "mitran".

You're bound to encounter a lot of unfamiliar names of people and places if you try to read an article in English, especially a news report. That can hamper your reading.

Thanks again, Love!
mitran October 14, 2014 8:44

I rememberd about you just by one word : Smith hihihi...it's easy for me. And I think, with my daughter name - mi tran- you can read it. but with my real name : thuong hehehe...you cannot, right? so some of my close friend calls me : love. Thuong means "love" in English.
Expector Smith October 13, 2014 14:59

@noasl

Thanks for the response. You are not alone in doing so. In fact, I won't bother to pronounce or remember all the unfamiliar names of people or places, some of which are so hard for me to pronounce or get familiar with.
noaslpls October 13, 2014 14:28

Most of the time I just skip through names of unfamiliar places and people. I found it didn't damper my understanding of the whole articles/books/news.
Expector Smith October 13, 2014 12:33

@afro

I'm glad you find it interesting. Thanks.
bet October 13, 2014 9:38

Interesting to read!

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