Alice 💋 asked How do you feel when someone perfectly capa…

It just reminds me to be thankful my part didn't give me some dumbass name like Kyler or something

Pawesome · 3y

I assume that’s their name and call them that - if I can remember it of course (which doesn’t always happen).

Penelope · 3y

Huh? Then i guess that's how they say their name. I'm sure they know their name better than i do

If that what his family calls them, then that’s completely fine. It’s RIDICULOUS to me that they should have to pronounce their name any other way if that’s what my parents have called me since I was born so that someone I don’t know from Adam can feel “comfortable”.

LaDamaX · 3y

... man thats some small dick energy right there.

Pandy · 3y

That's perfectly fine to me. They can pronounce their name however they want.

"Hello, I'm ARE-MON [/ɑːrmɑːn/] not AR-man [I'm not some man from Arkansas!]"

Arman · 3y

It bothered me living in the states and having people add an 'o' to my name to justify calling me Louis, like if I was the idiot unable to pronounce my own name, yet I had to learn to pronounce Tenetta, Tyreque, Zarana, and the like, even my Peruvian classmate Jesus was called "Hey Zeus" instead of "Gee Sus" like why do you have to gringofy my name lol? Anyhoo my point is, names are given and pronounced in their language of origin, even if you speak English well you aren't going to change the accent of your name to fit, or at least I wouldn't. That said I do find it pretentious when people do it for names of different countries like PakiSTAHN, then I am like chill, but with people's proper names, I prefer to know how it is pronounced.

Luis · 3y

It’s their name

cLOUD · 3y

I don't question how someone else pronounces their own name, especially when lots of names aren't English names anyway. Just don't be a dick when someone else with the same name doesn't pronounce their name the same way you pronounce yours. Because I've seen people insist on pronouncing someone else's name the way they pronounce their own--because they're spelled the same way--even though the other person doesn't pronounce it that way. I think that's some bullshit.

nefarious yeets · 3y

It's fine, especially if the name has its roots in that language, like if someone in an English-speaking country was named Jacques are they supposed to pronounce themselves 'jack-quez'?

Sean ⚡🤖 · 3y

That is fine with me, though it might get a bit on my nerves when repeated over and over again. What gets on my nerve more quickly is when people pronounce "bullets", like in "Bullets over Broadway" as if the "u" was pronounced "a". As if "bullet" would be pronounced similar to "but" with respect to the "u". I know people who still do this though they have been corrected multiple times by a native speaker who happens to be a friend of them. They have this strange notion of making an a out of every u. sigh