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Help[Opinions] Re: I spent my life in DC with a very unusual Germanic last name
in reply to a message by Siri
I got Serena all the time from an English teacher no less [after I kept correcting her everyday and she had papers with my name on it]. It's people like that being ignorant [well in my case it was].
I mean we correct them [many times] and it seems they refuse to correct themselves they just don't care, your name isn't hard to remember [IMO] I just think she didn't bother to correct it. I don't think it's cause your name is unusual [could partly be it] it's just cause it sounds similar to Raven, just like Sabrina sounds similar to Serena type thing.
ETA: I could see if a name was extremely hard to pronounce/remember but if you are repeating it over and over many times they should get it by then.
I mean we correct them [many times] and it seems they refuse to correct themselves they just don't care, your name isn't hard to remember [IMO] I just think she didn't bother to correct it. I don't think it's cause your name is unusual [could partly be it] it's just cause it sounds similar to Raven, just like Sabrina sounds similar to Serena type thing.
ETA: I could see if a name was extremely hard to pronounce/remember but if you are repeating it over and over many times they should get it by then.
This message was edited 4/10/2008, 8:29 PM
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