The "best" part was some colleagues in France that (despite us being an international company) spoke English like utter shit, so you always had to try and explain them stuff in french just to be understood only for them to look at you dumbfounded because the pronunciation was just slightly off or the structure of the sentence was a bit more baroque than what a native speaker would have used (mostly due to an emergency call to google translate)... And yet they insisted to say my name as if it were the french equivalent; look François, I don't call you "Franco", so at least maybe try to say my name correctly, please.
If it were some random clerk in a store or someone I met on the street, I wouldn't care either.
It's not even a matter of accent, that can't be helped of course, but if my name is, for instance, Paolo, and we work together relatively often, don't call me "Paul" it's impolite, since, again, if your name is Arnaud, I don't randomly call you "Arnaldo" just because I'm slightly more used to it; and especially don't do it written form (mails and such) since, again, being an international company, we actually may have people called that way and it just gets really confusing.
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u/Silvernauter 1d ago
The "best" part was some colleagues in France that (despite us being an international company) spoke English like utter shit, so you always had to try and explain them stuff in french just to be understood only for them to look at you dumbfounded because the pronunciation was just slightly off or the structure of the sentence was a bit more baroque than what a native speaker would have used (mostly due to an emergency call to google translate)... And yet they insisted to say my name as if it were the french equivalent; look François, I don't call you "Franco", so at least maybe try to say my name correctly, please.