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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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 have to start every course I teach with instructions on how to pronounce my name (and warnings about common misspellings).
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You forgot the “and I pronounce Linux as Linux” bit.
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... >say_my_name.m4a "heis-en-berg"
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I love that the sound file is needed and useful. BTW, your website has a dead linke to a .MP3 file at http://idlewords.com/about.htm instead of .M4A.
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hi, no video with supported format and mime type found, i'm dadpic.twitter.com/iA3DQRUmYm
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Great, now how do you spell it
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Just change it to Mike Pinboard already, you're an American now
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