Guest guest Posted November 5, 2004 Report Share Posted November 5, 2004 At 23:01 05/11/2004 +0000, you wrote: >Let me guess...you're touchy about having your name accidently misspelled, >right? Why so irate? who isn't touchy about this!?? :-) i am in health care and i take great great care to pronounce and spell both first and last names right. it makes a great difference to people, and my patients confirm this to me on a daily basis. likewise colleagues & classmates- - - making the extra effort is a way of " recognizing " a person. it is just basic respect to get someone's name right. if we don't, then i think " oops, i'm sorry! " is a great peace-making type of response rather than asking them what their problem is. if it happens over and over again it does get upsetting. just my opinion, kathleen (aka kcd) <--- who HATES to be called kathy! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 5, 2004 Report Share Posted November 5, 2004 You are right kathleen. Stacey I apologize to you. I was very tired and did not realize I had spelled your name incorrectly. I am not a good speller either. I just had to retype apologize because I had it wrong. This year I noticed I cannot spell correctly words I used to spell correctly. Senior moments? Lou " kcd (k.c. dillon) " wrote: > > At 23:01 05/11/2004 +0000, you wrote: > >Let me guess...you're touchy about having your name accidently misspelled, > >right? Why so irate? > > who isn't touchy about this!?? :-) i am in health care and i take great > great care to pronounce and spell both first and last names right. it > makes a great difference to people, and my patients confirm this to me on a > daily basis. likewise colleagues & classmates- - - making the extra effort > is a way of " recognizing " a person. it is just basic respect to get > someone's name right. if we don't, then i think " oops, i'm sorry! " is a > great peace-making type of response rather than asking them what their > problem is. if it happens over and over again it does get upsetting. > > just my opinion, > > kathleen (aka kcd) <--- who HATES to be called kathy! :-) > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 In a message dated 11/5/04 7:58:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, skydancer9@... writes: > >I think Stacey was growling at me, lou. My fingers get ahead of my >brain, I think, and they don't do well on their own. I rush too much in my >replies because I'm on 14 email lists (4 of which I run) and there's only >so much time in the day for all of those and my life, too. >>>>>>>. I wasn't growling, I was making a request, and to be honest, I believe it was Duncan's post that made me make my statement. Believe me, it's done by most people on most of the lists I'm on, hence my decision to try to correct it. It's not directed at anyone personally, but is more of a request. As with anything, we all have things that bother some of us but not others. Thanks Stacey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 At 09:35 AM 11/7/04, staceypmartin@... wrote: >I wasn't growling, I was making a request, and to be honest, I believe it was >Duncan's post that made me make my statement. Believe me, it's done by most >people on most of the lists I'm on, hence my decision to try to correct it. My grandson's name is Jerimy. Half of the time I can't remember which spelling it is, " Jerimy " or " " . I often wonder if parents who give their children names with odd spellings realize what a hassle it'll cause later on. My married last name, which I have retained because it's such a pain to change names, is rather long and Italian in origin. You wouldn't believe the spellings and pronunciations I get for that. In most situations where someone needs to call your name (ie: doctor's offices), I can watch someone come out, stare at the sheet of paper in their hand for awhile, then call me by my first name. Often I just save them all of that and say " here I am " before they even try. Junk mail turns up with some truly bizarre spellings that remind me of Czechoslovakian names. Pronouncations often err on which syLABable to put the emPHAsis on. sky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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