How do you feel when someone GROSSLY BUTCHERS your name? (member, retired)
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I don't allow myself to be trivialized with the small stuff. How ridiculous.
It's only 'ridiculous' if it's not your name that they are butchering... Once that happens, you'll get a much better understanding how it's rather disrespectful... imho
It really depends. If it is someone I am meeting I don't give it another thought. In business it bothers me a great deal. They aren't putting in time to get my name right however they expect perfection from me. I never say anything, just let it go.
People are utterly stumped by my name. It's not even that hard but they just can't manage it. At times I can just laugh it off but at times I want to tell them off.
Many people call me Michele (instead of my real name) all the time. Sometimes i'll correct them, but it doesn't bother me. I've gotten to the point where I don't even bother to correct them sometimes LOL
I saw a funny email this morning where someone replied and totally butchered a name. This was a common name and he only got the first letter right! How do you feel when someone butchers your name?
My maiden name and married name are both difficult last names.
I don't mind if they butcher it, I already know it is difficult to pronounce.
I do mind if they misspell my name, at least take some effort to copy my name correctly.
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Originally Posted by veuvegirl
It really depends. If it is someone I am meeting I don't give it another thought. In business it bothers me a great deal. They aren't putting in time to get my name right however they expect perfection from me. I never say anything, just let it go.
It's only 'ridiculous' if it's not your name that they are butchering... Once that happens, you'll get a much better understanding how it's rather disrespectful... imho
How is it disrespectful if someone doesn't know how to pronounce your name? It's only disrespectful if they mispronounce it on purpose.
It doesn't bother me that much. I politely correct them and move on.
It only bothers me when someone INSISTS that I'm pronouncing my name incorrectly. Excuse me??? It's MY name. I know how it's pronounced!
I got a big belly laugh from that because it reminded me of one of my friends who has a very odd sense of humor. When introduced to someone with a difficult name he would reply "I don't think it's pronounced that way". He got some of the funniest looks but most people realized it for the joke it was.
I have a friend who has a weird, hard to pronounce name. They get all worked up and upset any time someone pronounces it wrong. My name is equally as weird and hard to pronounce and I've always just understood butchering of the name comes with the territory. Nobody will every get it right on the first try, and 9 times out of 10 they'll give it a shot and ask if they've pronounced it correctly. I don't take offense in the mispronunciation, though, it's not like anyone can read my mind.
When I go to a store where they take your name for food I always give them a common name that's close to my name (the name mine generally gets confused with). I always have a laugh when whoever is writing it down insists on asking how exactly I spell it since there are a few variations of the name.
I have a last name that is super difficult to pronounce. It is a long Dutch last name, I am German, but live in the US and of course nobody here nor in Germany knows how to pronounce a Dutch name.
You get used to people mispronouncing or misspelling if you have a weird name. It's not their fault that you got that difficult name.
If you have a last name like SMITH or Jones and it gets mispronounced or misspelled, I would seriously question the other person's intelligence.
It just sucks that I never get confirmation emails when I order/book something over the phone because people on the other line cannot spell even when I tell them each letter spelled after the military phonetic spelling code.
I married a Dutchie and I show horses for other people for a living so my name gets called alot ( thank goodness) and I just enter how it sounds phonetically. It is long name really pretty too so I want it heard right if it is booming across an arena. Otherwise people are fascinated by it .
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