As a programmer you learn a lot of foreign names as you branch off into the various sub-fields in your endless journey to create.
Here’s how to pronounce some of the harder names you run into when building a game engine:
Euler: oil-er
Poisson: pwah-son
Fourier: fuh-ri-eee
L’Hopital: low-pee-tal
De Moivre: duh-mwa-vruh
Poincare: pwah-kah-ray (good luck)
Dijkstra: deg-k-stra
Galois: ga-lu-wah
I love this audio pronunciations database. Its a great idea: letting various people record pronunciations. So you can find an authentic pronunciation by a native speaker for almost any language. I wonder if this could be converted into a CAPTCHA test of some sort..
Dijkstra is dike-stra, not deg-k-stra ;)
I think the world needs this little webpage ;)