more name madness

So, for about 15 years (I don’t think I knew my last name before I was 5) when people ask me how to say my last name I’ve broken it down into the thing my mom told me to tell my friends: v-d-cha-learn. Although when she tells anyone she usually says v-d-CHA CHA CHA!-learn, cause it’s more fun this way. But this isn’t really how it’s pronounced in Thai. It’s pretty close, but it’s not quite right.

But as I was sitting here sketching poster designs when I had a revelation! I figured out something even better than Venereal Disease Cha Cha Learning:

“We teach ya learn”

Except you have to sort of slur it together and put the break between teach, like so: Wetea,chyalearn. So simple! and so much closer to the actual pronounciation. I felt like such a genious I had to share it.