today was the third time someone misspelled my surname with an extra ‘n’ while copying it from my passport
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meanwhile the ‘é’ and the ‘ñ’ have been thoroughly respected. wild.
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I love it when white people fix my surname from gonçalves to gonzalez, cuz I obviously don’t know my own surname 🙄
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i really want to know what goes through their heads. “ah they must be german, but the evil dutch misspelled their name, we must fix it!”
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“that must be a typo”
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also once I went to the US and I got 2 lunches every day at an event cuz the catering people refused to accept that my full name is composed of 4 words 😂😂😂
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my grandma’s maiden surname is the epic “Namias de Crasto”. you can probably guess how many ways it’s been misspelled - “Crasto” itself likely being a misspelling of “Castro”
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you have that problem in venezuela as well that whatever is typed into people’s birth certificate goes? I have lots of friends whose parents created a new family branch cuz someone typed their surname wrong and to fix it is SO MUCH trouble they just decide to live with it.
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ohhh this entire thread is so relatable
- people always misspelling my last name (in the US)
- four word name gets butchered all the time (in the US)
- my brothers have a different family name by accident
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My surname got turned into a Lithuanian spelling when my grandfather emigrated. If you look back at the old documentation he was writing it the same way every time, but every time they recorded they got it wrong, and then I think he just gave up in the end.