HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF SOMEONE ALWAYS CALLED YOU BY THE WRONG NAME, OR TOLD YOU TO CHANGE YOUR NAME BECAUSE IT WASN'T 'GOOD ENOUGH'?????
2006-10-26 15:14:03 · 36 answers · asked by LiNDA DO =) 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Like they were complete morons. I'd start calling them Whippigoggergoogler all the time.
2006-10-26 15:16:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
HAHAHAHA... I do get this a lot: My name being mispronounced or even misspelled. When I am being introduced to the person the first time and he or she did call me a different name or at least the one that seems to sound nearest to my real name, I don't take offense. I would try to correct him or her and then forget that it happened.
BUT, if it came from someone I have known for a long time, then that is really unacceptable. I will not stop until he/she would get my name right...lol...
2006-10-26 17:07:26 · answer #2 · answered by Alias G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People call me by the wrong name all the time on the phone. I say Samantha, but they just here Amanda for some reason. As a receptionist, I get it about 20 times a day. It just rolls off my back now.
Sometimes I call people by the wrong name back, to annoy them, but mostly I just laugh at it these days. What else can you do?!
2006-10-26 15:23:48 · answer #3 · answered by the_fatmanwalksalone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not want to even know that person. That person is not good enough to be my friend then, in other words (just kidding but you get the point.) I would feel awful because if they don't really like my name for that which I was given, Then they are not worthy of being around anymore. sure wouldn't want to be around them anymore. Nobody is worth changing your name too.
2006-10-26 15:24:41 · answer #4 · answered by jrealitytv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get this a *lot*. I am constantly being called by the wrong name or told that my name is hard to pronounce. I just shrug. My family and close friends call me by my true name.
In the "Earthsea" trilogy of books, there is a general belief that your *real* name would give power over you. People generally give out a knickname rather than telling anyone their true name. I think there's a lot of truth in that. Anyone who knows my real name gets their email read first, gets my attention quicker, and generally makes me feel better about them.
2006-10-26 15:17:23 · answer #5 · answered by Link Correon 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can choose to ignore the someone and walk away or you can give the someone a name as he's not good enough
2006-10-26 15:17:26 · answer #6 · answered by Beano 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they called me by the wrong name I'd ignore them because it wasn't my name.
2006-10-26 15:16:54 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but several people call me by my sister's name. We are not twins, she is 3 yrs older than I am, but we look enough alike to be twins. We both hate being called by each other's names.
2006-10-26 15:20:26 · answer #8 · answered by sweetgurl13069 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've actually had both things happen to me - I worked for an Indian doctor who kept calling me Carmine - and my name is Karla. I kept trying to tell him that it was Karla - and he kept calling me Carmine.
Second - next job I took already had a Carla working there and she asked me to change my name - so that she could be the ONLY Carla there. What an ***-huh?!?!
2006-10-26 17:28:51 · answer #9 · answered by Karla R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have ignorant people call me by the wrong name all the time. They are either too stupid or lazy to take the time and look at it properly.
2006-10-26 15:16:28 · answer #10 · answered by Eldude 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋