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I share my name with someone who lives in Florida. Actually his first name is spelled differently, but mine is the common variant in English speaking countries.

I share my name with someone who lives in Florida. Actually his first name is spelled differently, but mine is the common variant in English speaking countries. So from time to time I receive emails directed to him. I know he studied at Miami Dade college, did an exchange year in Venezuela, got a job as a waiter, then switched to multi-level marketing (I almost wanted to email him and suggest to reconsider his career choices). One time I got asked to register to a payroll service and enter my bank account information to receive ACH transfers. By the way, it's spelled fiancee if that's a she.

nashashmi 6y ago
I have the same problem but it has gotten worse. Before I was tracking this guys as he moved from one country to another before settling in Canada. I knew when he got married. His wife mistaken my email address as well. And as he changed his email address to another service, I was receiving his email on that service too. And then it got worse. Several people coming of adult age started to use my address. First it started out as college papers and then it went to career searches. And now shopping and banking. I don't know who these people are so I can't forward them the emails. But I have gotten their international phone numbers.
BrandoElFollito 6y ago
It is spelled fiancée if that's a she.
- hocuspocus 6y ago
  I'm a French speaker, thanks. I'm not expecting someone who obviously lives in the US to care enough and input an é, unless the auto-correct does it for you maybe.
- a1369209993 6y ago
  You're confusing the (French, I think?) word "fiancée" with the English word "fiancee" derived from it; English uses the 26-character latin alphabet for words. Compare "resume" versus "résumé" or "sushi" versus (IIRC) "すし" or "the" versus "þe" (showing that basic syntax words are not exempt from this).
  - bazzargh 6y ago
    Nope. For example, any issue of the New Yorker is replete with uses of diaresis (see eg https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...), and the OED does list fiancé; née and naïve are also pretty common; I was taught to spell words that had ligatures (eg hæmatology, œsophagus) at school...though I'm ancient. Wikipedia has more examples of this kind of orthography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical_marks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical... ... (yes I know this is 'just' wikipedia, but it links to more references on the topic)

nashashmi 6y ago

I have the same problem but it has gotten worse. Before I was tracking this guys as he moved from one country to another before settling in Canada. I knew when he got married. His wife mistaken my email address as well. And as he changed his email address to another service, I was receiving his email on that service too. And then it got worse. Several people coming of adult age started to use my address. First it started out as college papers and then it went to career searches. And now shopping and banking. I don't know who these people are so I can't forward them the emails. But I have gotten their international phone numbers.

BrandoElFollito 6y ago

It is spelled fiancée if that's a she.

hocuspocus 6y ago
I'm a French speaker, thanks. I'm not expecting someone who obviously lives in the US to care enough and input an é, unless the auto-correct does it for you maybe.
a1369209993 6y ago
You're confusing the (French, I think?) word "fiancée" with the English word "fiancee" derived from it; English uses the 26-character latin alphabet for words. Compare "resume" versus "résumé" or "sushi" versus (IIRC) "すし" or "the" versus "þe" (showing that basic syntax words are not exempt from this).
- bazzargh 6y ago
  Nope. For example, any issue of the New Yorker is replete with uses of diaresis (see eg https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...), and the OED does list fiancé; née and naïve are also pretty common; I was taught to spell words that had ligatures (eg hæmatology, œsophagus) at school...though I'm ancient. Wikipedia has more examples of this kind of orthography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical_marks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical... ... (yes I know this is 'just' wikipedia, but it links to more references on the topic)