Friday, 28 June 2013

Dvojacking

Dvojacking: verb. To mispronounce the name of a foreigner, often in a rather offensive, unpleasant or simply stupid way. The victims of Dvojacking are, in the majority of cases, people whose names contain diacritic or clumps of unpronounceable letters, for example first names like Žibřid or Khongordzol and last names like Schrödinger and Štadlmajer. In rare instances, people can be Dvojacked by their fellow countrymen, although this usually happens as a result of immigration and an unwillingness to conform to the language of a country. The etymology of Dvojacking should be fairly obvious to anyone who spends their time with Slavs or people of Slavic descent. This is because the word is derived from the name Dvořák; the most famous bearer of the name being called Antonín "Dvojack," "Dvourghak" or just "Dvorak."

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