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When people can't pronounce your name (Please don't post actual names)
- Thread starter Toxi
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There is nothing like someone reading your name on your door, mispronouncing your name, you correcting them and then them doing that same shit 2 days later. How?
You're getting close (in terms of it being a real, normal name that also coincidentally is a character name)
Last name's of irish descent. Not had much issue with people mispronouncing it. But on at least on occasion, someone over the phone made the assumption it was hispanic in origin, and pronounced it as such.
My name ends in a hard consonant which is impossible for Japanese to say properly. An -o or -u sound always gets added at the end. Really I don't care though. Now I just say the Katakana version of my name but then some realize its the Katakana version and ask what it really is in English then even after I tell them they still can't say it -_-
I have 3 first names as my full name so that's fun.
Also people keep adding an S to my last name.
Also people keep adding an S to my last name.
I'm a Haitian American, but have a very Spanish first name and French last name. Almost everyone pauses and waits for me to eventually pronounce it for them. For those that don't get it, I normally tell them to pronounce me by the first letter of my name, or a one syllable shorthand version of my full name.
I dont care to hide my first name as it's my handle. I get Gee-On Carlo all the time. I say sure close enough.
I think Ive met 2 people in my entire life who got my last name right first try and its only 4 letters
I have a fkn British name and people can't even pronounce it.
Must be crazy annoying for anyone with a non-British name out there...
Must be crazy annoying for anyone with a non-British name out there...
It's driving me nuts that people give their children English names but pronounce it German. (Martha, David, ...)
And then you have parents who give their child foreign names and complain they are mispronounced but cant pronounce it themselves.
I truly thought a child was called "Late" because the mother called him that all the time. Some colleagues called another "Monda".
And then you have parents who give their child foreign names and complain they are mispronounced but cant pronounce it themselves.
I truly thought a child was called "Late" because the mother called him that all the time. Some colleagues called another "Monda".
First week(s) of school is the worst because of this garbage. I don't even care how the teachers pronounce it, stop trying 500 times to get it "right" everytime you stop the entire class to call out my name.
I have a gringo name and am moving soon to a SE Asian country and everyone I know there pronounces it wrong but it doesn't bother me at all. At least they know my name. Meanwhile in US for my entire life when telling someone my name they repeat back to me a completely different name 2 or 3 times
I get not wanting to post yours but I did also find what seemed like a demand not to post actual names funny. it would make it impossible for me to post in the topic! not that I run into the issue often.
Kinda off topic but IDK why but I find confusing how the English language uses the "J" words with a soft pronunciation when it comes to Spanish in a very inconsistent manner.
My full name has 3 Js and a G and a lot of US and UK customers say my name in different ways. I just tell them to call me by a nickname.
My full name has 3 Js and a G and a lot of US and UK customers say my name in different ways. I just tell them to call me by a nickname.
I'm Korean American, adopted when I was approximately 6 months old and my adoptive parents decided to keep my birth name rather than giving me an Americanized first name. People have trouble pronouncing my first name despite pronouncing it for them.
What's rather interesting is my Google Pixel 3 XL can pronounce my first name perfectly.
What's rather interesting is my Google Pixel 3 XL can pronounce my first name perfectly.
I've had people mispronounce my first name, which is weird because it's a decently common name and one of the more common spellings.
My last name, I could understand getting it wrong, but it's specifically how most people get it wrong that bothers me. For some reason, a lot of people view the last letter as a capital "I" rather than a lower case "L," it's baffling.
My last name, I could understand getting it wrong, but it's specifically how most people get it wrong that bothers me. For some reason, a lot of people view the last letter as a capital "I" rather than a lower case "L," it's baffling.
Yup . Belgian name in Canada . Fuck it.
Shortened it for good email addresses though
My username is part of my first name. It is pronounced exactly as it is spelled but people really mess it up. I'm not sure why.
Just today some visitor couldn't pronounce my name after repeated attempts. I gave up correcting anyone at the age of 10 cause ain't nobody got time for that. I've been yelled at as an adult for not telling someone they had been saying it wrong for months/years, but I told them they were some decades late in meeting me. Oh well, at least there's one dude who will never find me with legal documents because he got my name THAT wrong.
People can't get my last name right to save their lives, even with it being spelled with 3 common words and its pronounced by just saying them in order. But nope they want to add letters and think some syllables are silent.
I have a Indian name that shortens into something monosyllabic enough for most Americans to pronounce it.
shoutout to my Indians with the 10+ letter long names or just plain unfortunate ones e.g. Shithi.
shoutout to my Indians with the 10+ letter long names or just plain unfortunate ones e.g. Shithi.
I have a Spanish name. My first name and first surname aren't uncommon in Spanish but English speakers 99.99% of the time butcher both. Pretty annoying at times. My second surname is pretty prevalent in English media so that's easier for people.
People misspell my first name a lot because I use a less common shortened version (which makes more sense but hey!) than most. My last name is alphabet soup: Six vowels and three consonants. My partner's is six consonants and no vowels. I always told her this is why we were meant to be together.
So I'm a white guy with a white name, but I happen to have both a first and last name that's uncommon. My first name is uncommon, and my last name is EXTREMELY uncommon. There's basically a couple hundred people in America with my last name last I tried to check. However, they're both really similar to fairly common names, basically one letter off. So occasionally I'll tell someone my name and they don't fucking believe me. They like try to correct me. On my own name. I don't really give af when people make mistakes, forget, whatever, that doesn't bother me. It's just when I correct them and they look at me like I'm frying their goddamn brain.