Temple names pronounced correctly

[christopherhales]

Do people's names matter? They seem to for Heavenly Father, the Savior, and every angel who has visited the earth. What is the first thing these beings say? They address the person by NAME and in their language! What if as we strive to gather Israel on both sides of the veil, we spend more time when preparing the names to offer the proper pronunciation, and less time telling temple workers not to worry about how badly they pronounce the names of patron's ancestors? Imagine, you have spent years trying to find an ancestor. You prepare the name for the temple from that far away coountry and you look up how to pronounce the name. You type in the phonetic symbols for the sounds underneath the deceased's name. Now you and the temple worker can pronounce it closer to how they were called when they lived on the earth. The Church is releasing names from countries around the globe to hasten the work. Let's encourage members submitting names to learn how these names are pronounced and help the wonderful volunterr temple workers to pronounce these difficult, foreign names in front of you!

[rmrichesjr]

Do I gather correctly that you're suggesting a new feature in Family Search? If so, it would be good to send that suggestion to Family Search via the Feedback button or link. You might want to add a little more detail about how the feature could look, how it could fit within the existing functionality.

Because the forums are a user-to-user discussion area, nobody here can influence any decision on that feature. All we can do here is discuss things.

[BrianEdwards]

If a church member takes a family member name to the temple, I don't think there's any problem if before the temple worker pronounces the name, the church member quietly states the correct pronunciation so that it is used. For those of us who speak other languages, we've all smiled inwardly when we've heard a temple worker do their best to pronounce a name in a foreign language. And there's no doubt I've also definitely mispronounced names when doing ordinances (some languages just flow better than others for me!). It's true that the ordinance itself is what matters, but we also know there's value in trying to improve where possible.

This is a great idea, and I second the suggestion to share this Feedback with the Family Search team. It would be interesting to also see how transferrable this idea is to other languages (if a Korean member prints out a slip for an ancestor with a foreign name, are they also to get a phonetic spelling in their native language?) I'm no language expert, perhaps this is easily answered and I'm just unaware of those details.