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Someone Writes An Outrageous Email Saying This Woman Doesn’t Know How To Pronounce Her Name And It Backfires
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Someone Writes An Outrageous Email Saying This Woman Doesn’t Know How To Pronounce Her Name And It Backfires

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Everyone who’s pretty active on social media has had at least one strange encounter with another person that left them a bit baffled. Whether it’s in the form of an email, Facebook comment, or a tweet, some people deliver the strangest and sometimes even the most unwelcome reminders of their presence. Recently, one of them became an unknown person who decided to write an email to a political correspondent named Ailbhe Rea.

Recently, a woman named Ailbhe Rea shared an email she received from someone telling her how to correctly pronounce her name

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The person felt somewhat “personally attacked” when they saw Rea’s Twitter handle, which reads: PronouncedAlva. It prompted the stranger to write a lengthy email explaining to Rea that she has no idea how to pronounce her own name. Luckily, this internet stranger was there to correct her. Not.

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However, her mom and other native Irish speakers had a different idea than the rude Irish student

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Rea just couldn’t help but share the cringy email with her followers and it quickly went viral. After reading the email, fluent Irish speakers stepped up to say that the stranger couldn’t be more wrong with their correction, while others decided to painfully roast the Irish language student.

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slackjack
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My friend David had his ID stolen. We now call him Dav.

elfin
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think that a name is pronounced however the name's owner wants it to be pronounced.

Dawnfire Rose
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Correction: a name SHOULD BE pronounced however the name's owner wants it to be pronounced. It IS pronounced only as close as they can managed to teach people. I struggled with that most of my life-- most people hear Nadya (two syllables, Nad-ya) and their brain corrects it to Nadia (three syllables, Nad-ee-ah). Or they just refuse to listen. Something like that... Either way, I've had a choice between spending a few minutes of every introduction to a new person attempting to get them to pronounce my name correctly, or going through life being called by the wrong name. Basically a choice between the frustration of running into a wall over and over again, or the subtler hopelessness of apathy from not having the energy to care anymore. I changed my name recently for other reasons, and realized only looking back just how much pain and frustration that bad pronunciation caused me.

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slackjack
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My friend David had his ID stolen. We now call him Dav.

elfin
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think that a name is pronounced however the name's owner wants it to be pronounced.

Dawnfire Rose
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Correction: a name SHOULD BE pronounced however the name's owner wants it to be pronounced. It IS pronounced only as close as they can managed to teach people. I struggled with that most of my life-- most people hear Nadya (two syllables, Nad-ya) and their brain corrects it to Nadia (three syllables, Nad-ee-ah). Or they just refuse to listen. Something like that... Either way, I've had a choice between spending a few minutes of every introduction to a new person attempting to get them to pronounce my name correctly, or going through life being called by the wrong name. Basically a choice between the frustration of running into a wall over and over again, or the subtler hopelessness of apathy from not having the energy to care anymore. I changed my name recently for other reasons, and realized only looking back just how much pain and frustration that bad pronunciation caused me.

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