Twoday My Name Isn't. . .
Tonight:
Tell us about two times someone has spelled or pronounced your name wrong
And, because we're none of us perfect, tell us about:
Two times you have made a horrible botch of a name.
Um. . .well. . . Does a bully deliberately saying my name wrong count? Because, really, I've yet to hear anyone honestly misspell or mispronounce "Victor Van Dort." Probably because my last name is so famous as that of the "fish people. . ." However, sometimes the bullies at home would call me "Can Dort" to mock me. Rather low form of mocking, but I preferred it to some of the other things they could do. And could I count Lord Everglot thinking my name was Vincent that one time? It's the only other thing I can think of. I don't know why he thought I was Vincent -- then again, it was hardly like we were acquainted. He probably just knew my name started with a V and said the first one he thought of.
As for me mangling others' names. . .I mispronounced a customer's name once. I heard it wrong -- thought it was "Johnston" when it was really "Johnson." Fortunately the man didn't take offense (which was good, because he was a little strange, even for Secundus. Talking about mantis men and combustible lemons. . .then again, he works for Aperture Science Innovators). I also got Marty's middle name wrong -- I thought "Seamus" was spelled with an "h" because that's the way I've always heard it pronounced. But nope -- apparently it's an Irish thing. (Still better than Fitzwilliam, I say.)
Tell us about two times someone has spelled or pronounced your name wrong
And, because we're none of us perfect, tell us about:
Two times you have made a horrible botch of a name.
Um. . .well. . . Does a bully deliberately saying my name wrong count? Because, really, I've yet to hear anyone honestly misspell or mispronounce "Victor Van Dort." Probably because my last name is so famous as that of the "fish people. . ." However, sometimes the bullies at home would call me "Can Dort" to mock me. Rather low form of mocking, but I preferred it to some of the other things they could do. And could I count Lord Everglot thinking my name was Vincent that one time? It's the only other thing I can think of. I don't know why he thought I was Vincent -- then again, it was hardly like we were acquainted. He probably just knew my name started with a V and said the first one he thought of.
As for me mangling others' names. . .I mispronounced a customer's name once. I heard it wrong -- thought it was "Johnston" when it was really "Johnson." Fortunately the man didn't take offense (which was good, because he was a little strange, even for Secundus. Talking about mantis men and combustible lemons. . .then again, he works for Aperture Science Innovators). I also got Marty's middle name wrong -- I thought "Seamus" was spelled with an "h" because that's the way I've always heard it pronounced. But nope -- apparently it's an Irish thing. (Still better than Fitzwilliam, I say.)