(I hear it as a secondary stress on the first syllable and a
primary stress on the third, but it may be the other way
around. I have never seen him describe his name’s
pronunciation in print.)
Edit: I’m surprised that Robin Hanson doesn’t pronounce it like Eliezer does. Do you remember what video that was?
It’s this video. It’s an hour and a half, and I’m trying to find where I heard him pronounce it. If I find it I’ll recomment (so you get a notification). It’s possible that I just misheard him the first time, and the next times were just confirmation bias.
“el-ee-EHZ-er”. (In IPA:
/ɛliˈɛzər/.)(I hear it as a secondary stress on the first syllable and a primary stress on the third, but it may be the other way around. I have never seen him describe his name’s pronunciation in print.)
Edit: I’m surprised that Robin Hanson doesn’t pronounce it like Eliezer does. Do you remember what video that was?
It’s this video. It’s an hour and a half, and I’m trying to find where I heard him pronounce it. If I find it I’ll recomment (so you get a notification). It’s possible that I just misheard him the first time, and the next times were just confirmation bias.
Edit: It’s at 19:41.
Sounds like
/aɪ/rather than/iː/to me too, though it goes by pretty fast.See edit.