christel-thoughts:micdotcom:kaldicuct:spicehamster:the-movemnt:Watch: The last type of mis-pronounce
christel-thoughts:micdotcom:kaldicuct:spicehamster:the-movemnt:Watch: The last type of mis-pronouncer is the worst, most insulting of allMy birth name is Haille, and it’s pronounced “Hay-lee” but people keep pronouncing it like “Hallie”. some even fucking write it “Hallie” like no, I didn’t misspell my name. One of my coworkers says shit like “Kaylee” “callie” and constantly forgets my actual fucking name. It pisses me off so fucking much. There’s a girl in some of my classes named Latha and one of our professors has been corrected like a million times and still says it like “Lay-tha” when it’s pronounced “Leth-a”Has it really come to this? “If you don’t say my name right you are oppressing me.”? Fucking really? I’ve got a name, It’s from Assassin’s Creed 3. Connor’s real name. I’m using this name to make it easy for people to look it up. Guess what. There are many ways of pronouncing it. OMG THE HUMANITY!Ratonhnhaké:ton motherfuckers.Remember, if you cant say a name right even if it’s not a common name. That means you hate the person who you didn’t say their name right.There is no such thing as human error. Everyone can pronounce everything perfectly 100% of the time.People with this mentality need to shut the fuck up.Of course, there is human error, but if you make no effort to say a person’s name correctly you are dehumanizing them, disrespecting them and generally being an asshole.It’s very easy to respect people who are different from you. Maybe you missed this part?hey asshole, it’s not that you’re oppressing someone because you made a mistake. you’re being oppressive by refusing to learn to say their name correctly and forcing them to use something more Anglo that you’ve been trained to see as a valid/“normal” name.you’re stripping them of the name they’ve had their entire lives or the name attached to their identity and just calling them whatever you think is easiest. You’re making your bias for anglo names their burden to bear. -- source link