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Your name isn't unpronounceable, people are just lazy. And this isn't someone "being offended", this is a legal requirement of the GDPR to accurately record so

Your name isn't unpronounceable, people are just lazy. And this isn't someone "being offended", this is a legal requirement of the GDPR to accurately record someone's name. "Zoë" is not the same as "Zoe" when you go searching for it in a DB.

CamouflagedKiwi 5y ago
> Your name isn't unpronounceable, people are just lazy. That isn't necessarily true. We all have a certain set of phonemes we can enunciate, and further have limits on how they can be combined together. It is far from inconceivable that the OP could have a name which effectively _is_ unpronounceable to people speaking other languages (and you can't just put in more effort to fix this, so those people aren't "just lazy").
- cgrealy 5y ago
  Sure there are sounds that humans cannot make, and combinations that are difficult for non-native speakers. I struggle with long Polynesian names, for example. But they're not unpronouceable... they just take some effort to learn. Why do you think you can't fix this? I've never encountered something that is physically unpronounceable (fictional eldritch abominations and extra terrrestials aside)
  - mhandley 5y ago
    There are sound differences that people who learned a language when young find clear, but which other people who did not learn when young simply do not perceive as being different. Yes, you may be physically able to make the sounds, but if you do not perceive the difference, you can't learn to say it right.
  - TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
    You’re being way too pedantic and missing the point.
    - cgrealy 5y ago
      I don't think I am. Your original point was that your name was "unpronounceable". I don't believe that to be true. Your name may be difficult to pronounce for native English speakers, but it's not impossible.
      - TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
        You latched onto one word in my statement that's not relevant to the point. Whether it's unpronounceable or difficult to pronounce is not important to the point. But go ahead, don't see the forest for the trees. I suspect this infects other parts of your life, and I wish you success working on that.
        cgrealy 5y ago
        And you latched onto my opening statement and ignored the actual point I was making about accurate legal records. so I guess we're two peas in a pedantic pod :)

CamouflagedKiwi 5y ago

> Your name isn't unpronounceable, people are just lazy. That isn't necessarily true. We all have a certain set of phonemes we can enunciate, and further have limits on how they can be combined together. It is far from inconceivable that the OP could have a name which effectively _is_ unpronounceable to people speaking other languages (and you can't just put in more effort to fix this, so those people aren't "just lazy").

cgrealy 5y ago
Sure there are sounds that humans cannot make, and combinations that are difficult for non-native speakers. I struggle with long Polynesian names, for example. But they're not unpronouceable... they just take some effort to learn. Why do you think you can't fix this? I've never encountered something that is physically unpronounceable (fictional eldritch abominations and extra terrrestials aside)
- mhandley 5y ago
  There are sound differences that people who learned a language when young find clear, but which other people who did not learn when young simply do not perceive as being different. Yes, you may be physically able to make the sounds, but if you do not perceive the difference, you can't learn to say it right.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
  You’re being way too pedantic and missing the point.
  - cgrealy 5y ago
    I don't think I am. Your original point was that your name was "unpronounceable". I don't believe that to be true. Your name may be difficult to pronounce for native English speakers, but it's not impossible.
    - TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
      You latched onto one word in my statement that's not relevant to the point. Whether it's unpronounceable or difficult to pronounce is not important to the point. But go ahead, don't see the forest for the trees. I suspect this infects other parts of your life, and I wish you success working on that.
      - cgrealy 5y ago
        And you latched onto my opening statement and ignored the actual point I was making about accurate legal records. so I guess we're two peas in a pedantic pod :)