Mispronouncing someone's name is understandable. What gets me is people misspelling my name... after they've worked with me for years... and seen my name hundreds of times...
Put an end to people mispronouncing your name
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#22My problem is not with people mispronouncing my name but modifying it to something easier for them.. No you may not call me Mario, or Martin. Mispronounce it! I don't care, just don't change it to something different!
Or you can adopt a short nickname everyone can say right, and put the entire problem behind you. There are more important things in this short life. A name is just a bunch of random sounds so when someone talks, you know they mean you.
His name is probably "Marius". That's about as short as it gets as a name...
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#23How HN users will pronounce my full name: Mario César Señoranis ?
Some suggest that this feels pretentious to suggest the correct pronunciation, however I always research the correct pronunciation for all persons I'm presented. From my side I like it, is a courtesy, is about good manners.
Not getting mad about someone mispronounce your name is courteous as research the correct pronunciation for others name
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or you can adopt a short nickname everyone can say right, and put the entire problem behind you. There are more important things in this short life. A name is just a bunch of random sounds so when someone talks, you know they mean you.
His name is probably "Marius". That's about as short as it gets as a name...
It's a great name, but it has three syllables and is uncommon enough for people to wonder if they should pronounce the "s" as he himself demonstrated.
There's a reason you know William Gates and William Clinton as Bill Gates and Bill Clinton. Richard Cheney knows short name is so important, he'd rather be called "Dick" rather than his full name, "Richard".
Short always wins. Mark isn't bad, by the way.
Marius "Mark" Capone.
Yup. Great.
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#25I will never expect anyone to pronounce my legal first name, Xitij.
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#26As a bearer of an apparently hard-to-pronounce name, this looks interesting, but I don't know that I would do this.
Another -ski here. Sometimes there's room for varying pronunciations of the same name. I grew up pronouncing my last name the way my non-English speaking parents thought it should be pronounced in English. It wasn't until college that I realized there was an easier way to pronounce it.
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#27I will never expect anyone to pronounce my legal first name, Xitij.
Zih-tidge is my guess.
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#28I mispronounce my own name most of the time. When I'm speaking English (which is 99% of the time I guess) I just use the English pronounciation, because it is easier, and who cares, really?
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#29Here is something similar, but it uses text rather than voice and only has Indian names so far. http://www.howdoyousaythatagain.com/
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#30I mispronounce my own name most of the time. When I'm speaking English (which is 99% of the time I guess) I just use the English pronounciation, because it is easier, and who cares, really?
I used to do this when living abroad. I always liked it, it reminded me of how arbitrary names and borders are whenever I used it.