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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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 checked into a hotel in Warsaw once with a colleague called Smith. It was a couple of minutes of the purest joy.
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I sometimes start to spell my name when checking in to Polish hotels and legitimately offend people
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Turns out that Vaughan, which from a British perspective (and particularly a welsh viewpoint) is a fairly ordinary name, is much harder than you’d think in many places. In Spain my colleague was ‘Bond’, in North Carolina he decided it was easier to just say his name was Chuck.
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I remember someone on my college radio station playing the great jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan and pronounced her name as "vo-gan."
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I worked at an international high school in China (expats from all over, mostly Asia) & on Day 1: Me: I'll say everyone's name wrong & you have to correct me. Me: Add-Em Arwen’s Ohn Adam Aaronson: That’s “Adam Aaronson” (etc.)
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