Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.

Angel ,'Not Fade Away'


Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.  

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SailAweigh - Apr 03, 2006 8:51:36 am PDT #7016 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

do you have a cell phone yet?

No, and I really should get one. Once I figure out my income tax (yes, I'm a tax slacker and proud of it), I'll take some of it and look into plans.

My real name is 5 letters and I'm lucky if anyone ever hears it right. I get Helen at every resteraunt when I leave a name and sometimes even Allen. Those are the people I want to kick.


Ginger - Apr 03, 2006 8:53:35 am PDT #7017 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I respect anyone who attempts my last name. The people who say, "Ginger Uh Uh," are pronunciation wusses. Oddly, a number of people remember my name as Kathy. Two syllables? I somehow look like a Kathy?


Fay - Apr 03, 2006 8:54:04 am PDT #7018 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Yup. My favourite was being told I both pronounced and spelt my name wrong. Some people just don't like to embrace new things.

Dear God, ita. What did you do with the body?

Americans have problems with my name (Fay is my middle name. Or one of them - I have four names altogether). When I was five I vividly remember a pair of 'old' (from my point of view) Americans who we met on holiday and who thought I was just darling (well, I was), but who were convinced that I couldn't pronounce my own name properly.

This was acutely frustrating.

My Christian name, for the record, is Nichola. Not, Nicholas - Nicholas is a boy's name, and I am most emphatically not a boy. Not Nicole. Nichola. This was a very popular girls' name in the UK in the 70s, for some reason. (There were 8 girls called Nichola in my class at school, and perhaps another 5 or 6 floating around the year group.) You pronounce it thus:

Nickle. Uh.

I'm philosophical about it being spelled any which way - there are various spellings of the name, and mine is not the most common. But it is not hard to say. It may be unfamiliar to USAians, but it is not hard to say. Really.

The number of times I was called Nicole, Nicholas and Nicolai in the first couple of months of working at this American school was simply mind-boggling to me.


§ ita § - Apr 03, 2006 8:57:36 am PDT #7019 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It may be unfamiliar to USAians, but it is not hard to say. Really.

Do you pronounce it differently from Nicola?

What did you do with the body?

My favourite related delusion was the friend who insisted that I was pronouncing, spelling, and definining a word wrongly. "Gimpy," IIRC. Honestly didn't occur to her that I wasn't trying to say "gamey."


amych - Apr 03, 2006 8:57:51 am PDT #7020 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

FWIW, Fay, I've always been a big fan of your real name. Of course, I'm an even bigger fan of "Nic", which (to my ears, anyway) sounds downright saucy on a girl.


SailAweigh - Apr 03, 2006 8:58:16 am PDT #7021 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I feel your pain, Fay. Mine's Ellen and besides getting the Helen and Allen, I get Eileen and Elaine frequently. It really doesn't bother me, I learned very young to speak up quickly to correct it after someone thought they heard me say Cherry Warren for Ellen Morin and wrote it that way on a name tag. Not that I didn't think Cherry wasn't a cute name, but it wasn't me.


Fay - Apr 03, 2006 9:03:19 am PDT #7022 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Do you pronounce it differently from Nicola?

Nope - same name. Nicola, Nichola, Nicolla - there were people with all these spellings in my class at High School.

Nickle. Uh.

I do favour the abbreviation Nic.

But not Nicky. The English language lacks terminology of sufficient force to do justice to the strength of my emotion on this point. NOT Nicky. Or Nikki. Or Nicki. Or any variation thereof. Nic. Yes. Or Nichola. Or Hey You, or Bitch, or Whatzername, or what you will. But not, oh a thousand times not, Nicky.

shudders.


JZ - Apr 03, 2006 9:05:32 am PDT #7023 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I'm very relieved to see that I pronounce your real name correctly, Fay. It's a lovely name. I'm boggled, though, at the people who have tried to correct you and ita on the spelling of your own names. Buh? I mean, even if it were some outlandish and bizarre collection of sounds that appeared to be an utter mispronunciation, it still wouldn't matter -- you're the owner of the name, however you say it is the way it's said, at least to you. How hard is that for the humans to grasp?

Apropos of nothing, I remember a girl from my high school named Fritha Nicoletta Schermerhorn. Her full name flows beautifully and sounds very pretty, but Lordy, she must be exhausted by now with the endless re-spelling and pronunciation correction, poor thing.


§ ita § - Apr 03, 2006 9:08:16 am PDT #7024 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Nope - same name. Nicola, Nichola, Nicolla - there were people with all these spellings in my class at High School.

I've never encountered your spelling, but I did go to school with at least three girls named Nicola. Hadn't occurred to me that it was less than common outside the Commonwealth. I think they went by Nicky if they abbreviated.

Honestly, I never abbreviate someone's name if I haven't seen them accept the abbreviation from someone else, and even then only if I consider myself on the same social footing as the person who used it.

I think forced nicknames are arrogant and contemptible, and will therefore never call someone something they've asked me not to call them, even in jest.


beth b - Apr 03, 2006 9:08:28 am PDT #7025 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I can understand not being able to pronoce you name properly if someone just read it. - but once you learn how to pronouce it, the americans ought to rember it. and I think Nic suits you, in a whole different way than Fay suits you.

ION, my cat will not shut up. I can not make it stop raining , but he wants me to, NOW.

and , I did not have to go in for jury duty. this is good.