Rhymes with Fish
Honestly, my name isn’t really hard to pronounce, once you get past the stream of vowels and consonants that appear to be thrown together. In fact, spelling-wise, my name is pronounced like it’s spelled.
No hidden vowels.
No tildes.
No awkward throat-clearing sounds. Â
Fact: Most South Indian names (last names especially) are long. Supercalifragilisticexpealidociously long. Believe it or not, Sadasivam is one of the shorter last names out there (and uncommon, at that).
I have to say that one of my biggest pet peeves regarding the whole name thing has to be people calling me “Chris”.
God.
I freaking HATE that.
Now look. I don’t have anything against people named Chris. It’s a good name, it’s just not MINE. I prefer to be called Krishna or, for short, Krish. I even answer to Mr. K, Special K, and K-. But not Chris, okay?
Aside: I’m really bad at correcting people when they call me “Chris”. I smile. I act nice. But deep down, I hate it. I’ve got more to say about the subject, but, ah, I think I’m gonna do that visually. Â
-KrishnaÂ
August 27th, 2007 at 6:16 am
PEOPLE CALL YOU CHRIS! WTF!
seriously that’s goofy I know I stumble over your last name but I stumble over Smith (or was it Smithe)
but Krishna is incredibly easy to say.
August 27th, 2007 at 7:08 am
I suffer from a somewhat uncommon name (just try to find it in all those personalization geegaws they sell in stores) as well. And when growing up, especially when in school, people were always wanting to call me Tina or (and I never figured this one out) Tricia. The name’s Trina – pronounced with a long e sound. (Still, one friend of my father’s pronounced it with a short i sound, but as he had a cool British accent, I never minded.)
August 27th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Part of it is the South. My last name is Greenberg. OK, I understand that some people want to spell it GreenbUrg. It’s wrong, but it’s understandable. However, I spent a summer in Houston once. In one summer, I experienced 7 spellings of my name. SEVEN. OK, one was correct and one was someone who thought all Jewish people were named David Something (which I’m not). That leaves 5 misspellings of my last name. Even I’m not that creative!
August 27th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
I know of at least 9 different spellings of my last name including changing the D to a P and 3 of my first name. So I understand how much it sucks.
You’re on to another winner here!
Much Luv
August 27th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Krishna! I love the new comic! Looooove the idea of a biographical comic strip. I look forward to seeing where ya go and what ya do.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:57 am
dude! tell me about it for two years I was known as AJ! WTF ! haha my peeps at work are really sweet to take time off to get to pronounce my name . I kept it simple , ” A-NINJA” “A-JAY”
September 10th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
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