Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

i actually dread having2 intrduce myself

― plax (ico), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 3:46 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

At least I just flat out asked you to correct me and repeated myself until I got it right. I knew I would have butchered it otherwise.

Darragh - it's not Dahhhhra like we would pronounce Daria tho, right? It's more of a hard a sound? Like the comedian Dara o'briain? Dara must just be the non-Irish spelling, right?

That's no good, Darragh - they don't know how to pronounce it even when its approximately phonetic: witness how everyone on UK TV calls Dara Ó Broin -'Daw-Raw' The short 'a' is illegal south of the Wash/ Bristol line at least.

xp

they're all kosher spellings tbh, but yeah the same pronunciation. Daire also valid.

Ó Briain obv.

xp to self

dawraw, man i'd glass the first fucker to try it

TBF I only know how to pronounce it because I've heard him say his own name. I would have gotten it wrong if I'd just gone with instinct.

Daire? That's just crazy.

how about durr for short :p /joeks don't glass me plz

my birthcert's dara but a girl spelt her name that way in my class when i was six, so i started signing it this way. Everyone but my dad came along with it eventually.

I like your spelling

I think in my head yr username has always rhymed with Caramac

Also lol display name!

That's right. i think.

My father spells my name Tré, which I hate.

Worst part is that I didn't really notice him doing this until I was 12 or 13.

lol

my last name gets butchered constantly. BENTOOTIE?? Really....fuckwad.

yah but id say it like thara also so

Sometimes i think people do it just to annoy me. and get the bentootie wrath.

My sister in law is Renee (with the thing over the e that I can't reproduce on a keyboard but w/e) ... there are seriously people who call her "Renny" or pronounce the 'nay' part like "knee"...that would make me kill people

No joke, I've had ppl pronounce Erica by stressing the 2nd syllable and making it sound like eureka. Like, are you kidding me?

eh, i might do that out of habit, my dad's last partner was a dutch eereeka

Wow ENBB, that's insane! The stupidity of some people is truly mindboggling

these aren't dutch ppl dawraw

None of this is as bad as what our northern neighbor does to the name "Regina." I work-know a Reggie who lamented her trip to Saskatchewan.

oh you're right - it's so unfortunate

you should see when people try to pronounce my wifes name....its very norwegian....she gets SHINEY a lot. Nice one.

lolol I can just picture a giant FAP where we call mispronounce each other's names on purpose and see who gets in a brawl first

you'll have to try pretty hard to mispronounce any part of my name

Not quite the same thing but this drives me batty: My last name is Penny and I swear to you, the amount of times I get called "Penny" by people who have my first name sitting there right in front of them on my EMAIL SIGNATURE is mind boggling.

Yeah I had a woman email back and for with me for a good six months where my name was not only in my email address but also in my signature and she called me Emma the entire time.

via email is truly weird, no excuse whatsoever. have had that before.

The email thing doesn't faze anyone. Shoot, I've had people call me Trey on my facebook page.

I think i mentioned on some thread before that sometimes when I introduce myself, people go, "Case?" like "Case" is even a name. I know I talk fast, but I don't drop my t's or anything...

Yeah I've mentioned this before but I once gave my name to someone over the phone who then sent me a letter addressed to AQUA BACKRAT because it's perfectly plausible that someone would be called that.

I mean I can also talk quickly but I'm pretty sure I've never said my name in a way that sounded even remotely like "aqua".

Hahaha, I think I've got a new Amazon password.

Pray to the Aqua Backrat.

aqua backrat!!!!!

that would be an amazing name. for, like, a superhero vole.

acrobatic aqua backrat

yup, dats me

A telemarketer with an unsure command of the English language called for Katharine the other day, except kept referring to her as "Godfrey".

I was the only one in the house who thought this was hilarious.

you OTM

hahahaha

A clerical typo at the INS now addresses my husband Clayton as "Clayto".

Ding! Instant nickname.

That's not my Name!

(I was going to retype but realized I'd told this story at least once before)

Barvel!

Dying over here...lololol

"What'd that guy just call me?"

And it makes me think of those columns in womens trashy mags, like "Mere Male" that are all "lol! hubby put a shoe in the REFRIGERATOR, he is SUCH A DUMMY!"

&*^^&% uuughhh.

― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 30 September 2010 16:07 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Massive xpost but this this this x 3297623984729384734. What especially shits me about Mere Male is that it's seen as a subversive way to empower the sorts of women who are writing letters to women's magazines that publish write-in columns like Mere Male.

My surname is so unpronounceable, even for Irish people, that we decided just to give our Daughter her mother's surname instead, so she wouldn't spend her whole life spelling it, then pronouncing it, then spelling it again, and then wincing when even people who know you well get it wrong.

I don't know how Welsh people cope in the rest of the world. My dad has a Welsh middle name (Gwydir, pronounced goy-der), and it's never been written correctly on official forms. He gets 'goiter' a lot.