[Opinion]: #MyNameIsNot that difficult

[McSack]

I have white skin, an indian name, and a black soul(and schlong)

there is a difference tho between shortening a name affectionately as a pet name and shortening it to reduce embarrassment. People also constantly mistake my name for other names and it doesn't bother me in the slightest, some activists have too many hangups

Either you are not washing it enough or you should take it a bit easier next time you get the cyclops in a headlock

 

[Impulse_One]

Having non-english name, perverted by French conversion into Latin writing, made it completely unpronounceable. I came to solution to use English equivalent of my original name. And they have managed to shorten it even more, making it sound like asian/middle eastern name.

Aaaaand then Afrikaans attacks! They mess up letters 'g' and 'v' in name , replacing it by 'h' and 'f' respectively. Totally broken.

 

[Ninja'd]

Having non-english name, perverted by French conversion into Latin writing, made it completely unpronounceable. I came to solution to use English equivalent of my original name. And they have managed to shorten it even more, making it sound like asian/middle eastern name.

Aaaaand then Afrikaans attacks! They mess up letters 'g' and 'v' in name , replacing it by 'h' and 'f' respectively. Totally broken.

Proof that globalisation does not work

 

[Beachless]

Proof that globalisation does not work

We had a Gerry that worked for us and had regular interaction with Brazilians instant name change and even though they tried they failed miserably with the G throat sound.

 

[Oculate]

Can kinda agree with this though. I'd much rather have learned French or Xhosa as a second language than Afrikaans.

Having learnt French instead of Afrikaans at school (long story), it's only really allowed me to communicate with colleagues in Mauritius and Canada marginally quicker than speaking English.

In retrospect, Afrikaans would have been a better choice

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

O she can fsck right off. Try having a german name and calling any type of call centre. This **** is the reason I learnt the phonetic alphabet.

 

[noxibox]

Hang on, black people in South Africa always mispronounce both my first and surnames. Black people born in England get it right. So either the black people in South Africa are raging racists or it's just a language thing. Black people in South Africa also regularly mispronounce words like economic.

The catcalling claims also proved to be a damp squib. Instead of being rampant it turned out to be nearly non-existent.

MyNameIsNot “baby”, “sweety”, “honey” or “chocolate”.

My name's not love either, but I take it for what it is when people use it to address me, rather than assuming they're evil monsters out to insult me.

Then it's certainly not Jan. Even Zuma can pronounce that.

The J is pronounced the same as in July right. Except in the case where the name is Jacob, then it is pronounced Yacob. Zuma, that's pronounced Tsuma I presume.

 

[Lucas Buck]

My name can be spelt in three or four different ways but is hard to mispronounce. Afrikaans speakers usually find a way to butcher my name though, which doesn't offend me.

 

[Bryn]

My name is usually mispronounced as Bryan. I don't understand how anyone can think that one letter can be two syllables.

 

[Ho3n3r]

My name can be spelt in three or four different ways but is hard to mispronounce. Afrikaans speakers usually find a way to butcher my name though, which doesn't offend me.

What's your name? I wanna try.

 

[Ho3n3r]

My name is usually mispronounced as Bryan. I don't understand how anyone can think that one letter can be two syllables.

In SA it's a miracle that they can even read there is a syllable.

 

[cr@zydude]

O she can fsck right off. Try having a german name and calling any type of call centre. This **** is the reason I learnt the phonetic alphabet.

I've tried that, the problem is that the person on the other side of the phone has no idea what I'm saying.

 

[Knyro]

So not wanting to learn an African language is racist? Just another "social justice activist" talking out of her @ass I suspect. I personally am not that interested in learning other languages...whatever language that might be.]

I'm gonna call you "Krees".

People mispronounce my nama all the time. As long as it somewhat resembles the proper pronunciation I give it a "meh, close enough" and move on. Some however do go all out and get it dead on. Nice, but rare.

The only situation where I could understand that might irritate someone is where the other person flat out refuses to even try to say it and calls you something completely different.

 

[TriGuN]

People usually get my name wrong, because I'm the only person that they will ever meet with my name. They assume I'm saying names that are common which sound similar, but I hate those names, so I'm constantly getting called names that I hate.

For that reason, I don't really like having my name.

I have seriously considered introducing myself as a name of my own choosing.

 

[Ninja'd]

People usually get my name wrong, because I'm the only person that they will ever meet with my name. They assume I'm trying to say names that are common which sound similar, but I hate those names, so I'm constantly getting called names that I hate.

For that reason, I don't really like having my name.

I have seriously considered introducing myself as a name of my own choosing.

Something like Vash maybe?

 

[DA-LION-619]

Is your name that important, I get called LioneL, L, Li, Lion and many more in some circles even Chris

 

[ellyally]

Hell all these white guys have been calling me by the first letter of my name for years... I thought it was just a 'nick' and showed they actually like me and we're friends, but today I find out its the opposite. Turns out they are all racist white bastards hating on me because I'm white

 

[Johnatan56]

O she can fsck right off. Try having a german name and calling any type of call centre. This **** is the reason I learnt the phonetic alphabet.

Want to bet I can pronounce it?

Anyways, I have not heard my name pronounced correctly outside of Belgium/Netherlands, South Africa no one can pronounce it besides my family.
Also, lots of Afrikaans people keep calling me by the Afrikaans version of my name instead of the English one, quite annoying.

The only African language I learnt was Swahili, else the normal schooling of English, German and Afrikaans.
Not like I can still use Swahili (didn't use it once since I learnt it near 5 years ago and have forgotten pretty much everything).
Afrikaans I use when I go overseas, same as German and English. I can use all of them here ( so many German tourists), while all those who speak Xhosa/Zulu etc. can speak English well enough and some even prefer it over speaking their "native" tongue.

EDIT: Now learning how to pronounce it right: Be happy I even know your name, it takes me 2-4 weeks of constantly meeting you to remember your name . (I am terrible at remembering people's names, I usually never say a persons name when speaking with them, only when greeting them and that is sometimes.)

 

[Nicodeamus]

I'm Afrikaans with a German name, I go through life having 3-4 different pronunciations..lets also not start on the misuse of the umlaut and my difficult surname.

 

[Ninja'd]

I'm Afrikaans with a German name, I go through life having 3-4 different pronunciations..lets also not start on the misuse of the umlaut and my difficult surname.

Günther?