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Dec. 4th, 2008 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penmageI really hate it when people misspell my name.
It's not a common name. It's unusual, I know, and even the people who share it with me spell it differently than I do. I can excuse it to a degree. If you've just met me, or if you've never seen it written down, or only write my name down infrequently, whatever, I don't care.
BUT. My professional email address is firstname.lastname@gmail.com. Is it SO HARD to realize that I spell my name like the first half of said email address when you're emailing me? Or, when you've known me for a really long time, and had opportunity to see me write my name and spell my name many times, is it so hard to spell it right?
It's totally unjustified, but it seriously pisses me off.
It's not a common name. It's unusual, I know, and even the people who share it with me spell it differently than I do. I can excuse it to a degree. If you've just met me, or if you've never seen it written down, or only write my name down infrequently, whatever, I don't care.
BUT. My professional email address is firstname.lastname@gmail.com. Is it SO HARD to realize that I spell my name like the first half of said email address when you're emailing me? Or, when you've known me for a really long time, and had opportunity to see me write my name and spell my name many times, is it so hard to spell it right?
It's totally unjustified, but it seriously pisses me off.
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Date: 2008-12-05 03:15 am (UTC)One of my previous groups worked with a woman named Judith (and this was in her email address). On the phone, she referred to herself with the shortened version, and since she spelled it "Judy" in her email signoffs, I did also, but the other people on my team kept typing "Judi". I wondered if that ever bothered her.