How do you react when someone mispells or mispronounces your name?
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I don't get my name mispronounced so much, unless you can consider having someone completely confuse your name for another one "mispronounced". This is a phenomenon that happens to me regularly... People will call me anything but my first name except family members. This happened so much that I adopted a nickname at one point which seemed to solve this problem, but got tired of having to explain that "Dru" isn't my real name.
Sigh... You would figure that "Justin" is a pretty fucking easy name to remember. But no, people will call me Jason, or Josh or John I've also been called Chance, Chris, Mike, Mark, David, Rob... And I kid you not these aren't one time encounters, this happens a LOT.
I even had someone call me some Wilhelm (with a German accent). Mind you this is AFTER I have told people my name, sometimes multiple times.
I do tend to get the "Don't I know you?" question a lot... and most of the time the answer is "You don't."
I would swear I must be wearing the Gray Fox mask when I tell people my name...
(for those who don't know what/who Gray Fox is, please please play Oblivion
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Sigh... You would figure that "Justin" is a pretty fucking easy name to remember. But no, people will call me Jason, or Josh or John I've also been called Chance, Chris, Mike, Mark, David, Rob... And I kid you not these aren't one time encounters, this happens a LOT.
I even had someone call me some Wilhelm (with a German accent). Mind you this is AFTER I have told people my name, sometimes multiple times.
I do tend to get the "Don't I know you?" question a lot... and most of the time the answer is "You don't."
I would swear I must be wearing the Gray Fox mask when I tell people my name...
(for those who don't know what/who Gray Fox is, please please play Oblivion
)
I am now intrigued as to what your super awesome last name may be.Kortney said:
OT: Well, my name is Marius, but sometimes people go for, I dunno, Manus, Marinus. I... correct them. Last name isn't that hard though. Koelink. Although sometimes I have to help with the spelling, but they always pronounce it right.
I usually give them a hard time for it, but just laugh it off. It really doesn't matter, does it?
But my last name is Morrow, and I can't tell you how many people have asked "Hey do you have a brother named Tom? Har har har!
But my last name is Morrow, and I can't tell you how many people have asked "Hey do you have a brother named Tom? Har har har!
My name... is Jack. If someone did Mis-spell or mispronounce that, I'm sure natural selection would work it's magic.
Calumon: Sometimes people call me Culumon. I wonder why?
Calumon: Sometimes people call me Culumon. I wonder why?
I don't mind people mispronouncing my name, cause it means they're kind of stupid. I mean Jay Wilson, how do you fuck that up? But it's when people call me by the wrong name that I get annoyed. Frequent perpetrators are my boss, my mother, and my best friend. (They call me Jake, Justin [my brother's name] and Jory [other friend's name] respectively)
Blake is easy enough, never had that spelled wrong.
My last name being an 11 letter Polish one is difficult. I myself couldn't spell it until I was 6-8 years old. Not that I really tried to before.
My last name being an 11 letter Polish one is difficult. I myself couldn't spell it until I was 6-8 years old. Not that I really tried to before.
My surname isn't common down in England, so it gets mispronounced all the time. I just let it slide because it doesn't make any difference as long as I know it's me they're referring to.
After all, there's plenty of names and surnames that I'd probably say wrong if I saw them written down too.
After all, there's plenty of names and surnames that I'd probably say wrong if I saw them written down too.
I get the misspelling thing a lot, I do get a little angry sometimes, but I understand why people do it.solidsnake101023 said:
My last name is O'Brian, that is the way my family spells it. Of course common way is O'Brien. So it happens a lot.
Recently, I pre-ordered Pokemon White at GameStop. I didn't think anything of it when I told the guy my last name, but when I looked at the receipt later, I noticed he had spelled it the common way O'Brien. It's really my fault for not telling him, but I just forget about my strange family spelling that has been around for at least 5 or 6 generations, learned that at the big family reunion years back.
The other thing I get with my last name is people asking me if I my family owns the liquor store downtown. I get that a lot, in many places, because I guess that there are a lot of O'Brien's in Indiana, that own liquor stores.
My name is Ian, and I'm always just a little surprised when someone reads it and pronounces it correctly on the first go.
Truth be told, I got used to it pretty quickly. In fact, when people ask me how it's pronounced, I'll either say that it doesn't matter, or something like, "It's pronounced aajurr-bajijshn."
Truth be told, I got used to it pretty quickly. In fact, when people ask me how it's pronounced, I'll either say that it doesn't matter, or something like, "It's pronounced aajurr-bajijshn."
This is kinda funny, I have a silent and completely illogical h in my last nameSimuLord said:
My first name isn't really difficult. People from english speaking countries have a slight mispronunciation due to the fact that there's an anglicised version of the name. But it's still working at least
I've never had anyone mispronounce my name, but it usually takes several tries for someone to spell it. What's annoying is, I know they won't be able to spell it first go, so I always spell it for them. But they ignore me, because they figure they can't possibly misspell 'Kathryn.'
Then they spell it 'Catherine.' I tell them my name is spelt with a 'K.' They then try 'Katherine.' I tell them it has an '-ryn.' They come up with 'Katheryn.' What the fuck. That's not even a name. Finally, I tell them to omit the 'e.' And then they get really confused because somehow 'Kathryn' cannot be spelt without an 'e.'
Then they spell it 'Catherine.' I tell them my name is spelt with a 'K.' They then try 'Katherine.' I tell them it has an '-ryn.' They come up with 'Katheryn.' What the fuck. That's not even a name. Finally, I tell them to omit the 'e.' And then they get really confused because somehow 'Kathryn' cannot be spelt without an 'e.'
Being Norwegian and having a Norwegian name, I get a lot of misspelled names on Skype from my English friends. I don't mind really, I try teaching them to say it correctly and they do surprisingly well actually.
Im going to be honest with you, I acctually misspelled my own name once, I dont even have a hard name to spell!