Eee Tanja baby!

[pne]

When Schlüters came by this morning, I asked them whether Tanja's baby had arrived yet (since today is her due date), and they said yes.

Jana Magdalena [after her great-great-grandmother] Vollbrecht was born on Wednesday 2 June around 4:30 in the morning after 16 hours of labour. Tanja had developed gestosis (? Schwangerschaftsvergiftung), so the doctors gave her something to increase contractions.

Jana was a very small baby at 50 cm and 2600 g (19¾ in and 5 lb 12 oz); anything below 2500 g (5 lb 8 oz) is generally considered low birth weight here and gets the child sent to neonatal care (NICU?).

Tanja and Jana expect to come to fast and testimony meeting today where the child will be blessed.

Comments

[volantwish]

how are they pronouncing the name?

Jana

[pne.livejournal.com]

Hee, I wondered whether I should have spelled it "jAna" :)

They pronounce it the German way - roughly as if spelled ヤーナ/Yāna in Japanese - so with a "y" sound at the beginning and with two IPA /a/ vowels (which don't exist in (my idiolect of) English, though I believe e.g. French/Spanish/Italian use that vowel as well), the first one being long and stressed.

Re: Jana

[volantwish]

*grin*

i'm at school and on a sucky computer, so the characters aren't displaying...but i think i understand what you're saying.

it's really interesting seeing how people try to pronounce my name at work. (i wear a nametag.) i've had a couple people try my name with a spanish "j" (so, it comes out as "hah-nah") 's interesting.

Re: Jana

[pne.livejournal.com]

it's really interesting seeing how people try to pronounce my name at work. (i wear a nametag.)

What is it you do?

i've had a couple people try my name with a spanish "j" (so, it comes out as "hah-nah") 's interesting.

Heh. I wonder whether their train of thought goes something like this - "Hm, she doesn't look completely European-American, so she's foreign", so they use "foreign pronunciation". I imagine many Americans aren't familiar with the fact that there are multiple foreign languages, each of which have their own spelling/pronunciation conventions :)

Re: Jana

[volantwish]

What is it you do?

i work at a best buy store.

I imagine many Americans aren't familiar with the fact that there are multiple foreign languages, each of which have their own spelling/pronunciation conventions :)

veryvery true. although, i have had a few hispanic-looking people begin conversations with me in spanish before realizing that i only speak english.

jAna

[pne.livejournal.com]

BTW, how is it you pronounce your name again? Like the last two syllables of "bandanna"?

Re: jAna

[pne.livejournal.com]

and with a "j" like in "jam"?

Re: jAna

[volantwish]

yes, and yes :)