WongKaKui@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Is your name a TrageDeliah or something?
But as someone with a Chinese Name in an English-Speaking country, I do feel very weird when someone calls my name…
They’ll never get the real version of the name, only an Anglicanized version of it.
It feels weird, like it feels kinda like a name that only Chinese people are supposed to call me, having a non-Chinese say that name feels like if a teacher called you those nicknames only your family members are supposed calls you by…
I never feel weird saying someone elses name. Like wut bruh?
But yea I get it, the phone call giving their name is very weird to me… like c’mon you’re supposed to be a faceless nameless person who I talk to for 10 minutes lol
Even in person customer service is still weird unless you’re more long term…. like I’m a client or something… like real estate agent or car sales person
Not fucking customer service or a fastfood, dont wanna know your name and I don’t like giving out mine either
YawningNostalgia@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
I think they were talking more about someone who says your name unnecessarily in regular conversation but the Chinese name thing is so real. I’m half-Taiwanese and speak at a grade-school level but it irritates me so much when someone says my Chinese name wrong. Like just don’t say it if you’re gonna fuck it up