Gate agent is welcoming people by name. Uh-oh. "Andrew, have a good flight! Patricia, welcome!" I hand her my ticket. "Please don't do it. You'll butcher it." "Mr…" "You'll butcher it." "I can do it! Mr…" "I promise you'll butcher it" "Mr [hideous sounds]! Did I get it right?"
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If you're in a situation where you have to say a difficult name, like introducing someone at a conference, ask as many times as you need to. Don't be shy to ask. I'd rather tell you fifty times than hear you wing it on stage in front of a packed auditorium (as has happened to me)
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The greatest six months of my life was being an exchange student in Russia with my annoying classmate Wayne. Wayne does not trip off the Russian tongue like my name does. Watching him suffer during daily roll call was the happiest I've ever been.
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Want to know how to say my name? Here's a sound file, have at it in the privacy of your own home. http://idlewords.com/say_my_name.m4a Just please don't make me have the least interesting conversation of my life about it again.
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We also have the technology to ask someone to say their name into your phone, so you can practice it and remember. The point of my rant: people are too shy in situations where we want to help them get names right, and too brazen in situations where names are not necessary to say
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The likes on this thread are like a roster of the damned. Krzysklgzp Hm!llgw'srp feels my pain!
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I experience that too, though I think my name is fairly simple, 7 letters, 3 syllables, and just the right amount of vowels. My paternal grandfather was a German immigrant and the name is phonetic in German though not to American ears.
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haha, did I get it right? My last name is Wawrukiewicz. No, random American, you did not get it right.
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As a migrant kid this was literally the worst.
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I posted something rather similar last night, and I don't even have a "difficult" name.https://twitter.com/garrett_wollman/status/1038653791355252738?s=19 …
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I almost messed up walking at my undergrad graduation because my dean messed my name up so badly even though I’d gone over it with him ahead of time (to be fair I would not want that job)
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