I Think I Just Deleted Some Posts
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I was trying to get rid of the irritating German spammers. Achtung! Sie
sind nicht eingelanden! Ahem, anyway I think I accidentally deleted a
couple of pos...
14 years ago
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I actually forget how to say this guy's name within 10 seconds of hearing it. Eastern European/Slavic/etc names, in general, do this to me, and I feel particularly guilty when coworkers confront me over my clumsy pronunciations. Maybe it's my monosyllabic, super-common, Western European name that has removed the emphasis of properly labeling people... I have this thought regularly (weird, right), and it invariably leads to a discussion (in my head, I'm not crazy) about the importance of names, in general, and the establishment of identity.
In case you couldn't tell, I thought about this today, while listening to the New Yorker's Transition podcast.
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