Noticing someone with a double-barrelled last name and long first name.
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Noticing someone with a double-barrelled last name and long first name.
Made me remember a person I met with a triple hyphenated last name! Must've been tough to wield day-to-day!
A #poll…
For your regular every-day name, eg introducing yourself (not your full legal name) how many syllables does it take to say it?
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G gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org shared this topic
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I'm lucky with just 3 syllables, though my surname is weird (Finn) and needs spelling.
I always envied people I'd hear on the phone at work who could just say their name and it was clear how to spell it…
"Hi this is Dave Smith, can I check my order?"More annoying must be a name that sounds ordinary but you have to spell it still:
"Hi it's Deayve Smith - that's spelled Dee ee ay vee aych ee," Condolences my friends.
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I've had some Tamil colleagues with super long names - that must be hard to use in western countries.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua Oh yes - ha! Didn't know he was a real person.
So American - no way people could deal with a slightly different name spelling. Maybe it's changed a bit these days, but certainly not in the 1930s - 50s.
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Probably my wife is some very far relative, since he came from the same small village where my father in law was born, where families were intertwined a lot.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua Oh neat! Makes extra demand for her in making pasta!
…Or maybe not, it's easy to do a better job than the canned stuff.
