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I mean, there are English names that sound funny in English, so it stands to reason.
From an anglophone perspective, I think Thai names often seem kind of funny in a similar way, at least in how they are transcribed (starting with Thailand's capital being Bangkok). The morpheme "phon," meaning "blessing," appears a lot in names, and it is also sometimes transcribed as "porn." I'm not sure how it's actually pronounced though, I've only seen it in writing.
There is a synthpop musician from Thailand called Pornphan Wannaporn
A synthpop musician, you mean.
my bad
the name has always sounded funny to me in chinese as well, because the pi sounded like "butt" or "fart" in chinese anyways.
Ah the British colonizer disease of transcribing long/open vowels with r. That's also how you get the Korean name Park, which in reality is more like Paak.
Common nonrhotic L