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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I try to pronounce everyone's names the way they pronounce it.[/quote]
This. Isn't this just common courtesy? Why on earth would you purposely mispronounce someone elses name?[/quote]

I try to pronounce peoples' names as they do, but there's plenty of ways this could happen without malintent. You could forget, get confused, not hear the name said often, not be good at rolling your Rs or putting the stress on different syllables, know many people who pronounce the same name in different ways, etc. [/quote]
How do you "forget" how to pronounce someones name? Forgetting a name? Sure. But forgetting how to pronounce it properly? C'mon. Don't be a racist. Just pronounce the name how people want it pronounced. If you CHOOSE - aka if you make the choice - to pronounce it "the american way" and then argue with said person when they try to correct you, you're just a racist. [/quote]

What if you know an Andrea, an Andrea, and an Andrea, pronounced the American way, the Italian way, and the 90210 way and you only see them once every couple of years? Easy to forgot.[/quote]

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