I think it's interesting and kind of funny when people don't care how you pronounce their names. Although I think my mother doesn't really care how you say her first name.
Yeah. He's my hero.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jun 04, 2012 3:02:03 pm PDT #8297 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
lisah - Jun 04, 2012 3:03:01 pm PDT #8298 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I can't imagine not caring! My friends are pretty easy going people, though.
Strix - Jun 04, 2012 3:06:22 pm PDT #8299 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I sure care! And I feel horrible when I get a name wrong; names are important.
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2012 3:07:26 pm PDT #8300 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not going to commit to any transliteration of the pronunciation. It's a reasonably long ee but the stress doesn't really go there.
FUCK. I forgot AGAIN to ask the migraine doctor for anti-nausea medication. Why do I never remember that in his office?
SuziQ - Jun 04, 2012 3:09:53 pm PDT #8301 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I go by Suzi because I hate correcting people on my given name. My parents were happy to find a name that would work both in Iran and America, didn't spell my name in a way that would help people pronounce it correctly. My aunt always spelled it Sussan (pronounced Sus-san). Instead people see Susan and say it Suz-in. I know it is(was) such a common name and my pronounciation is so odd, that I hate being picky.
Atropa - Jun 04, 2012 3:09:56 pm PDT #8302 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
How do people not care how their names are pronounced? Sure, I don't really care if I'm called Jilli or Jillian, but the pronunciation?
ION, have fallen into the rabbit hole that is "90s Goth" in the vintage section of Etsy. Send help.
Liese S. - Jun 04, 2012 3:17:25 pm PDT #8303 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
My sister pronounces her name wrong. We say it lah rah in the family, but everyone else calls her low rah. So eventually she caved and changed, but I still maintain it is wrong.
I pronounce the Japanese part of my name a little wrong. Just a subtle difference in accent.
tommyrot - Jun 04, 2012 3:23:24 pm PDT #8304 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Unless I'm in Wisconsin, everybody pronounces my last name wrong. Sometimes I correct people, sometimes not.
It's weird when I tell someone my last name and 30 seconds later they're pronouncing it wrong.
sumi - Jun 04, 2012 3:27:08 pm PDT #8305 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I rarely find anyone to pronounce my first name properly - but I can usually get them to pronounce my last name properly, i.e., the way my family pronounces it. (However other families with the same name may do it.)
Strix - Jun 04, 2012 3:30:46 pm PDT #8306 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Sure, ita !, but please correct me should we meet F2F again.
One of my friend's friends is Italian -- born in Sicily and lives in Italy-Italian. She speaks impeccable English, but her accent renders my real first name into something so lovely and charmimg...I love it.
(She made me read Latin to her when she discovered I'd studied it, and about laughed till she cried. I was all "Rita, it's a DEAD LANGUAGE!"
She replied "If it were not dead, you certainly would have murdered it!" and went off into peals of more laughter. I wasn't offended.)