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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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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Serious question: what about when doing something like canvassing? "Hi, is [difficult to pronounce name] in?" feels like a bad intro.
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"Hi, I don't want to mispronounce your name." and show them. I would vote for anyone who did that.
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My (last) name got butchered at my high school graduation because right as I was about to tell the announcer how to say it, I sneezed, and he didn't wait so I could try again. Still mad.
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Announcer should have at least sneezed, too. I feel you!
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