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Wonderful results from BuildBlitz, but there is one short video segment I would really like to see now that the madness is over.

Can Karthik please post a short video where he teaches us how to correctly pronounce his last name? I have wondered for years how it is correctly pronounced and I never hear anyone use it.

Thanks!

-matto-

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Ha. Karthik's name is easy to pronounce. Step 1 is to learn how to spell it. Step 2 is to slow down the first few times you say it.

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Just read your request aloud in the social media room here at Build Blitz. Here you go!

https://vine.co/v/h3uuZEvi0Eh

Hope that helps!

(Okay, really this time. https://vine.co/v/h3uunn0Y6lj)

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"CAN-A-GAS-OF-APATHY"

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I'm saving this forever.

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I think I'll just keep calling him Karthik.

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Karthik ain't too hard to say. Maybe that could be because I am an Indian, myself :D. Try to say Devyash, and you'll think that his name is the easier on to say :D

Anyways, It would also like to see a video about that!

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I've always internalized "CAN OF GAS HAVE APATHY" to make it make more sense, personally.

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Same here, except with slight variation: Can of gas of [b]apathy

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I wonder if I can convince S.W.A.T. to name this year's robot "Can-a-gas-of-Apathy" or at the very least something like "Kangalarasackthy" and see how many people point it out or try to correct it.

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I propose a merger - "CAN-A-GAS-HAVE-APATHY(?)" - A question for the ages.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73sP1kSAMWo

Jump to :12 and hear "Kanagasabapathy" flow swiftly, flawlessly, and effortlessly.

There should be a competition to see who can say it faster than he can.

That pronunciation does sound anglicized though, considering the origin of the name is from India, if I am not mistaken. I really want to know the true, original pronunciation, if this isn't the original way to pronounce it, which I am betting it is not.

Click the link below and hit the speaker button, and hear "Karthik Kanagasabapathy" spoken in a Hindi accent. This is probably closer to the original way to say it.

http://translate.google.com/#hi/hi/k...anagasabapathy

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props to Karthik to putting up with this at every event he attends, i would have lost it by now.

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Hi Mr. bEdhEd

I think I know how to pronounce my own name, but thanks for the advice...

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Mr Smith: Thanks for clarifying. Made my day.

=)

-matto-