I was in a meeting recently and the lady on the other end (queue- Zoom, Teams brigade lol) asked if I could kindly pronounce my name… And I did, or I thought I did *straight face*. It sounded strange to my ears haha… I have one of those ‘exotic’ names that probably needs an interpreter, biologist, physicist and Nobel laurate to get right the first time… Yep, a name spelt like ‘hrasdfort’ but pronounced ‘Anna’ haha.
Just the other day, I mentioned my name to a client, and guess what he said? “That sounds like something from Star Wars…” *confused face*… I had to keep it together, smile and resist the urge to smack the taste out of his mouth through the phone haha… To be honest I don’t mind ‘that’ much when people struggle to get it right the first time… It’s not ‘Jane or Peter’ lol. But when I get it wrong… It’s a whole bowl of chaos and drama lol
I guess it’s mostly because I’m not around folks from my side of the planet. You know, the ‘hometown’ crew and family lol. When you keep hearing your name in many different ways, it sticks. Why? Well, other people use it more than you do. So you can imagine the trauma of living in a global village… hearing all sorts of variants of my name. With time, my mind adopted the foreign sounds *rolls eyes*.
So, this weekend… I might binge on some movies from back home *rolls eyes* to try get my accent back… And when next someone asks… I’ll let them know how it’s done “down under”
But first, we eat… Bon appetit!