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I can’t stress enough how irritated I get when I learn a friend has allowed me to call them a name that is not THEIR name because “it’s easier for me”
I get it, Americans as a whole are ignorant and lazy and like to pretend that any name other than Peter or Karen is a struggle to say. However, this pisses me off to no end!
A name is one of the most important identifiers that a person holds. To the best of my ability I want to acknowledge your name fully (more on what I mean by that later)! When I meet you for the first time PLEASE tell me what you 
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I understand if you legitimately want to be called “____,” but never and I mean NEEEEVER tell me your name is whatever because you think it’d be easier for me. I appreciate the thought, but absolutely, I have the ability to learn. (Incoming summary of a linguistics lesson...)
Language is a very complex system ( @oluwatoyomo (typing that sentence made me cringe). As a baby baby you literally have the ability to pick out (and even make) every phonemic sound any language has to offer. As you get older, you begin to loss a lot of that ability,
You learn your native language(s) sounds, phonemic constraints, et cetera, and the other ones you once had become difficult to both make/pick up (on) and differentiate (between).
To an extent this means that yea, I literally will not be able to say your name for a little bit (or at the very least I might say it with an accent (linguists defines this as trying to utilize another language while still using elements of your languages’ phonetic constraints)
However, I wanna respect your name with the way it SHOULD be said. Not with the way I “can” say it, because I WILL say it however. Hold me to it.
ANYWAY! Before this gets even longer... This has been another rant of shit that no one on Twitter asked about. Thank you for attending! my name is William Brendan Redding (say it all), and I’ll see you all next time where I share my thoughts on... idk, the art of album sequencing
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As well as this clip that nearly brought me tear from the Amber Ruffin Show:
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As well as this clip that nearly brought me tear from the Amber Ruffin Show:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CGtN5NHJsv0/?igshid=1rxwj3x1v251o
Thanks,
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