Foreigners called my name more perfectly than my countrymen pronounces .

Lucky. My native colleagues mispronounce my name every time, and my Indian colleagues call me "kali." I'm pretty sure the latter is equal parts phonetic difference and shade.

@SortOfTested now I'm confused.

What's your first name?

And wasn't Kali the destroyer of evil and pure badass? Why shade... ?

@IntrusionCM
They know it's not right, but they keep doing it. Don't even make an effort.

Well... My name is trivial.

What's not so trivial sometimes is the nickname mama... (Yes… as in mom).

It's funny how some people are triggered by that. Led to quite comedy-dramatic situations now and then.

@SortOfTested OK. Makes sense i think. Though I find if funny somehow.

@IntrusionCM
Given the lengths I've gone to to learn how spray out names like srinistava, ranganathan/murthy, kathyayini, it's just kind of irritating in terms of a lack of reciprocity.

@SortOfTested *head - table* I completely forgot how trouble some indian names can be

@SortOfTested Indians are the one who actually tries to pronounce a word correctly than any other nations would do with an unknown . The person who called my name perfectly was not colleague but a senior of the company . And that brought a smile onto my face .
Edit : I am an Indian. The senior was from San Diego .
Now you can understand .

I don't think anyone is calling me by my name anymore.. o.O
I know of 5+ regular nicknames coworkers use + various one timers they decided are not so great + different official name variations based on country of customers.. ooh, come to think of it, some Israelis actually call me by my birth name & pronounce it very well too! (:

Microsoft autocorrects my name which usually just adds to the confusion.

@iamai hahaha LOL