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I'm a Perl coder living in Bethlehem, PA and working Philadelphia. I'm a philosopher and theologan by training, but I was shocked to learn upon my graduation that these skills don't have many associated careers. Now I write code.
my name is ... what?
I am not a stickler for how people spell my name, but I figure I'll get it stated publicly at least once.
My name is Ricardo. People have asked, "Do you mind if I call you Ricardo?" No, I don't. It's my name. My name is not Richard, and I will be annoyed if you call me Richard or Rich. My name is certainly not Richardo, and I will be very annoyed if you call me that or address mail to me that way. It genuinely annoys me.
I almost never write my own name, except for my signature or my initials. When I do, I write "Rik." Many of my friends call me that. I never write Rick or Ric. Sometimes people say, "But there's no 'k' in Ricardo!" Well, there's no "k" in Richard, either, and people write "Rick" for Richard. I spell it R-I-K, and if you're going to call me by that name, you should, too.
I doesn't bug me when people spell it Ric or Rick, but I imagine people would rather spell it the way I intend, not some other way. (It's strange, to me, that people usually default to Ric.)
I also respond to Rico and RJ, by the way.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
I know what you mean (Score:2)
I have no idea why people would possible spell Aaron as Arron -- aron or erin or something but why would have two r's in it?
People frequently mis-spel it, even tho its no more foreign or less common than hannah, josh and any of the hebrew biblical names. If they were a stickler for romanizing the hebrew name it would be AHRN.
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;
Re:I know what you mean (Score:2)
But then some people introduce an "aa" by misspelling "savvy" as "saavy". Probably because "vv" is also rare.
And then there's "one l Randal" (Score:2)
I also cringe a bit at people calling me "Randy". I never introduce myself as that, but people sometimes use that without checking with me first. I think they're just trying to be "more friendly", but I decided very early in my life that the tho
Irks me too (Score:1)
I get tired of correcting people. I get frustrated by the fact that people still say Josh even after being corrected. I have gone as far as to use a nick-name completely unrelated to my first name. It is short sweet and is easy to remember. I now introduce myself as follows:
My name is Joshua, but I prefer to be called Gat. If you would prefer to call me
Oh, don't get me started... (Score:2)
- Jason
Handles (Score:1)
qw(Ian Langworth)
I get this too.. (Score:1)
Instead of Godin (which I've been told is a fairly common name in Canada), which is pronounced go-din, I get God-in or strangely, Grodin (they're probably thinking of the Actor, Charles Grodin)
count the Os, count the Is... (Score:1)