User blog comment:EtherealNyx/OC Rant/@comment-27226023-20150720034319/@comment-4598697-20150802160701

@MamonoGal1311

I can't even pronounce many of my own OCs' names properly! I can't speak any other language besides English. Take Vasile Soare, for example. I feel like I always pronounce his name differently every time I speak it. And unfortunately there aren't a lot of Romanian speakers in my area, so finding a book on the Romanian language offline might be a little tricky.

There are actually multiple dialects of German, and there's Low German vs. High German. I am one-quarter German through my paternal grandfather, and my German ancestors came from different areas - namely Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria, and Prussia (the part of Prussia my ancestors came from now belongs to Poland and the population is now mostly Polish). The Brothers Grimm were from Hesse. All four parts of Germany have completely different dialects. German first names and last names often have multiple spellings.

I would probably pronounce Quinn's surname similar to the English word "shower".