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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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I wish I had such a narrow view of the world.
I tend to view it as people unfamiliar with a name and who have a memory issue before I decide they're ignorant.
I tend to view it as people unfamiliar with a name and who have a memory issue before I decide they're ignorant.
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well excuse me [m]
I'm not going responding to anything you write again since nothing good ever comes of it [even when I write something nice] I don't know what your problem is with me but you need to get over it.
I'm not going responding to anything you write again since nothing good ever comes of it [even when I write something nice] I don't know what your problem is with me but you need to get over it.
This message was edited 4/11/2008, 11:44 AM
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Although I know that was a dig, I kind of agree with Sabrina here. Siri, I know you have seen my surname before and to me it seems easy- it is pronounced exactly as it is spelt. My first name is Elise. Easy IMO. No one ever pronounces it correctly. Ever. And even when I correct them it is like the majority of people like their pronunciation better or something so they just keep saying it that way, even minutes after I correct them.
And people call me Elsie, Elly, Louise, Eloise, Ellen, even Elinor so often I cannot count. I work in a call centre and answer the phone "Welcome to *company* this is Elise how can I help you today?" and they usually say "Oh Louise is it (or whatever name they think it is)?" I'll correct them and say it's Elise and straight away they go "Okay my problem is Louise....etc etc"
I really think most people just don't care that much. Meanwhile, my brother's friend Caoimhe never has a mispronunciation after she corrects them the first one or two times...but I think that is because the alternative is calling her COW-M-HE and Keeva seems much easier!
And people call me Elsie, Elly, Louise, Eloise, Ellen, even Elinor so often I cannot count. I work in a call centre and answer the phone "Welcome to *company* this is Elise how can I help you today?" and they usually say "Oh Louise is it (or whatever name they think it is)?" I'll correct them and say it's Elise and straight away they go "Okay my problem is Louise....etc etc"
I really think most people just don't care that much. Meanwhile, my brother's friend Caoimhe never has a mispronunciation after she corrects them the first one or two times...but I think that is because the alternative is calling her COW-M-HE and Keeva seems much easier!
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really? [m]
Really Elise [is gorgeous by the way] isn't really hard to say? My mother's name is Marilia [Mah-rill-ee-uh] and almost everyone says it wrong, IMO it's not hard. She always get's Marie, Maria, etc. If anything I could see mar-uh-lee-uh but how do you get Marie? LOL.
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 IMO, if they don't then I think they are just not caring [which is something that irks me].
I can't say all are ignorant [pr better word carless it seems only in certain situations like my teacher], she has my papers in front of her and was reading it before me and STILL kept saying Serena. I told her "it's Sabrina" she just looked at me and said "ok, Serena", oy.
Really Elise [is gorgeous by the way] isn't really hard to say? My mother's name is Marilia [Mah-rill-ee-uh] and almost everyone says it wrong, IMO it's not hard. She always get's Marie, Maria, etc. If anything I could see mar-uh-lee-uh but how do you get Marie? LOL.
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 IMO, if they don't then I think they are just not caring [which is something that irks me].
I can't say all are ignorant [pr better word carless it seems only in certain situations like my teacher], she has my papers in front of her and was reading it before me and STILL kept saying Serena. I told her "it's Sabrina" she just looked at me and said "ok, Serena", oy.
This message was edited 4/10/2008, 8:25 PM
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