Name Tag

[joelconte]

Yes...Старейшина Елдър.  No need to confuse the poor people by translating your last name. 

Старейшина Старейшинo

So will they call me:
Cтарейшина Cтарейшина

or:
Cтарейшина Eлдep

Actually it would be Старейшина СтарейшинoB, but that makes as much sense as Mister Mister. 

[Mason]

Hahahahahah

[Jelderelder]

Госпoдин Гoспoдинoв is a member here in Yambol.

[Patrick Weiss]

ok so I have a quick question on how I would do mine...
name is James Patrick Weiss so.. it would be Старейшина Джеймс Патрик Вайс right? My family's pronounciation of Weiss has the long E sound...

[Blindspot]

If you pronounce it with a "W" as in Water, I would recommend spelling it "Уайс".  And you'll probably never see your first name in Cyrillic...but you've got the spelling right.

[Patrick Weiss]

sweet!!! thanx for letting me know!
one last thing on names! my friend has been dying to know how to spell her name in Bulgarian. It's Kirsten (with the i making the long E sound, like Keersten) and i hope i wasn't wrong in telling her it would be spelled Кийрстен.

[Richard Davies]

Yes, you're spelling is correct. Although you could also spell it Кирстен. The й is somewhat redundant in this case, at least as far as I can remember.

[Blindspot]

I'm with Davies on this.  Кирстен would be the way I would spell it unless you have a reason to draw out the "eer" with an й.  That would be more of a Russian thing.  Bulgarian pronunciation is very...hard.  (hard as in rock, not as in difficult).  It doesn't have a lot of soft sounds.  Unless the person speaking is drunk.  You'll see.