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When people can't pronounce your name right...

Posted: July 21 08, 3:23 pm
by AdmiralKird
Whether your real name happens to be long and German, or you have an 'original' screenname, its frustrating when people always make the same common mistakes interpreting your name.

It's Admiral KiRd

And its somethingsomething-schmidt.
Elongated like this: 'schamid-duh-tuh'
Not: 'schmith'

Or there's the problem when people pronounce their own names wrong, like I have a friend named Goldstein. It's not Gold-Schteen, its phonetically pronounced 'Schtine.' You had some great-great-dumbass that couldn't pronounce it right and it carried on. Time to reverse the process, or change your name to Goldstien.

Re: When people can't pronounce your name right...

Posted: July 21 08, 3:25 pm
by cardinalkarp
Huh, I've always read your screen name as AdmiralKid for some reason, I never noticed the "R" in there.

Re: When people can't pronounce your name right...

Posted: July 21 08, 3:58 pm
by lukethedrifter
I always read your screenname as BeanKird.


Good luck with that name thing and watch out for me on the road, Kid.

Re: When people can't pronounce your name right...

Posted: July 21 08, 4:01 pm
by phins
Lighten up Francis (Kid)....

Re: When people can't pronounce your name right...

Posted: July 21 08, 4:06 pm
by AdmiralKird
lukethedrifter wrote:I always read your screenname as BeanKird.
I like it, if only I liked S'nS though.

I won't hit you, that would be too quick and not painful enough. Knowing you can't outrun me, I will drive slowly beside you and continuously play the Flinestone's theme song on sax as loud as I possibly can over, and over. Your head will slowly decrease in size and eventually implode.

Re: When people can't pronounce your name right...

Posted: July 21 08, 4:10 pm
by TabascoElvis
For some reason I thought it was AdmiralKARD.

Imagine my embarrassment.

Re: When people can't pronounce your name right...

Posted: July 21 08, 4:14 pm
by AdmiralKird
TabascoElvis wrote:For some reason I thought it was AdmiralKARD.

Imagine my embarrassment.
It's alright, you were just confusing me with cardinalkap

Re: When people can't pronounce your name right...

Posted: July 21 08, 4:32 pm
by Hudler
My last name is Sheley, looks so simple to say, yet it is mangled all the time. It's pronounced She-lee, not Shell-ee. And no, I'm not related to Nicholas Sheley.

Re: When people can't pronounce your name right...

Posted: July 22 08, 12:55 pm
by jimedmondsfan
My last name is VanHooser...Go ahead, make my day!

Re: When people can't pronounce your name right...

Posted: July 22 08, 1:07 pm
by sighyoung
Sorry--I always thought it was Admiral Image