Comments on: This name has taken its toll on me… http://www.Artificialignorance.net/blog/ai/this-name-has-taken-its-toll-on-me/ the anand iyer chronicles Sat, 29 May 2010 14:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mayur Dudani http://www.Artificialignorance.net/blog/ai/this-name-has-taken-its-toll-on-me/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Mayur Dudani Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:22:43 +0000 http://www.artificialignorance.net/blog/2005/02/this-name-has-taken-its-toll-on-me/#comment-87 Whereas I appreciate your sentiment behind the thought of "what's in a name?", I'd like to stick up for people with bad names, on the grounds that it eventually gets too tedious to repeatedly explain the pronounciation of your name to people who never graduate from being several shades of stupid and ignorant.<br><br>So when Mayur became Max [at work], it took me a while to get used to what seemed most likely to be a Golden Retriever's name. It's better, however, than having to explain to people that your name is not Manure, Majoor, Muh-year - especially if all you want is to book a bloody table at a restaurant.<br><br>Perhaps you ought to look at it as - "What's in a name, when it comes to those who dont really matter?" Whereas I appreciate your sentiment behind the thought of “what's in a name?”, I'd like to stick up for people with bad names, on the grounds that it eventually gets too tedious to repeatedly explain the pronounciation of your name to people who never graduate from being several shades of stupid and ignorant.

So when Mayur became Max [at work], it took me a while to get used to what seemed most likely to be a Golden Retriever's name. It's better, however, than having to explain to people that your name is not Manure, Majoor, Muh-year – especially if all you want is to book a bloody table at a restaurant.

Perhaps you ought to look at it as – “What's in a name, when it comes to those who dont really matter?”

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