When you meet new people, how often do they pronounce your name correctly on the first try?
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When you meet new people, how often do they pronounce your name correctly on the first try?
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@evan I said often but really it is always, but often only after they ask me to repeat my name. That is, they often do not hear my name the first time. Maybe I pronounce my own name ambiguously?
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@evan I answered “Always” because most people on the planet know of New York, and “Dan York” is short and simple. However, reading some of the other replies, I realized that I do sometimes get variations on “Dan”. I say it with the shorter “a” of “pan” or “can”, but some people will say it sounding more like “D-ah-n” or even “Don”. It’s still close enough to be fine by me. 😃
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@evan I answered “Always” because most people on the planet know of New York, and “Dan York” is short and simple. However, reading some of the other replies, I realized that I do sometimes get variations on “Dan”. I say it with the shorter “a” of “pan” or “can”, but some people will say it sounding more like “D-ah-n” or even “Don”. It’s still close enough to be fine by me. 😃
@danyork so, your name is one that I can see people using an over-familiar diminutive of. How often do people you just met call you "Danny"?
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@evan only mispronounced on the rarest occasions by non-English speakers whose language has a very different sound for the character J.
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The correct pronounciation of my name sounds a bit funny in the country I live in*, so I don't mind if they don't.
*it basically sounds exactly like trying to hush someone.
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The correct pronounciation of my name sounds a bit funny in the country I live in*, so I don't mind if they don't.
*it basically sounds exactly like trying to hush someone.
@relet so it's like if in English your name were Shutup, and when people ask you how to pronounce it, you tell them to shut up?
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@evan It probably won't surprise you to learn that my answer to this over the past ten years and my answer to this over the last few months are very different.
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@evan It probably won't surprise you to learn that my answer to this over the past ten years and my answer to this over the last few months are very different.
@BathysphereHat "raw-beet"
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@evan Hard to blame them when I've historically pronounced my own name wrong ("Zim-boar-skee" instead of "Shim-boar-skee").
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I need a "sometimes". but I'm no longer sure I'm pronouncing it correctly based on learning some Greek.
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I need a "sometimes". but I'm no longer sure I'm pronouncing it correctly based on learning some Greek.
@wjmaggos "often" and "rarely" are both "sometimes"!
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@evan Hard to blame them when I've historically pronounced my own name wrong ("Zim-boar-skee" instead of "Shim-boar-skee").
@jszym oh, that's interesting!
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@evan I clicked "Never," but that is not 100% accurate. It happened exactly once, from a guy delivering my groceries, and when I asked how he knew, he said, "That's the way it's spelled." No, it's not, my man.
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@evan I clicked "Never," but that is not 100% accurate. It happened exactly once, from a guy delivering my groceries, and when I asked how he knew, he said, "That's the way it's spelled." No, it's not, my man.
@suehle what the
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@evan I get "Jeff" approximately 90% of the time. Obviously, if they read my name, they pronounce it right, but if I said it and they say it back, they nearly always hear "Jeff".
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@evan My name is about easy as one can get on pronunciation but this odd thing happens repeatedly when some reads my name from say a reservation many times they address me as "Adam".
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This is really fascinating. I have some thoughts.
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This is really fascinating. I have some thoughts.
I started this poll because I was thinking about how Andrew Cuomo and to some extent Curtis Sliwa, in the New York mayoral race, repeatedly and intentionally mispronounced Zohran Mamdani's name, in an obvious attempt to other him. Here's a clip about it.
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I started this poll because I was thinking about how Andrew Cuomo and to some extent Curtis Sliwa, in the New York mayoral race, repeatedly and intentionally mispronounced Zohran Mamdani's name, in an obvious attempt to other him. Here's a clip about it.
He eventually called out Andrew Cuomo on stage during the debates about it.
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Let's put aside for the moment how risible it is that a man named Cuomo and another named Sliwa were trying to other someone for having an unusual name.
What I loved about this moment was realizing how many New Yorkers watching had experienced this same kind of microaggression and fucking hate it.
They were trying to make Mamdani the other, but they were being the *real* other -- the racist white man who tries to make you feel small.
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He eventually called out Andrew Cuomo on stage during the debates about it.
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@matt OK, but it still feels bad. You have to run the service as root, and then start a session as a user, and then install an apk, and then launch the package...but the package icon doesn't show up if I just use the `show-full-ui` option. It feels so fiddly. Seems like somebody who understands how all the pieces work ought to be able to make a single command that spins everything up and runs an apk, without this complicated dance?
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/115844566976722093
Now that's a properly professional attack. Excellent pretext; leverages expectations around windows' notoriously poor stability for end users; the malware accounts for Defender; it uses the presence of an obscure, machine-readable-but-human-obtuse measure to guide user action; and apparently it's got clear enough directions to get users to -compile software on the machine-.
This is truly exceptional; well fucking done on some actual -proper- villainy.
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I started this poll because I was thinking about how Andrew Cuomo and to some extent Curtis Sliwa, in the New York mayoral race, repeatedly and intentionally mispronounced Zohran Mamdani's name, in an obvious attempt to other him. Here's a clip about it.
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This is really fascinating. I have some thoughts.
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@FraEmme beh dalla sua faccia direi che voi state invadendo il suo 🤣
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@FraEmme Ha lo sguardo di chi è colpevole
