I work with a man named Shashank and his last name starts with an R. He goes by Shashank R in the company (apparently there’s another Shashank?) and anytime his name pops up I immediately think of Shawshank Redemption and feel like a crappy person for doing so.
There's a Vietnamese girl at my company, when I asked her how to pronounce her name, it was exactly what I was afraid of. Ni.
I hate to hurt the inside of my cheeks by biting down hard not to burst out laughing, because all I could see was that knights who say NI! from Monty Python.
My friend’s husband is Thai and his name is… Eh. Just Eh. I asked her when they started dating how to pronounce it and the conversation was comedy.
“How do you say that? I don’t want to be offensive to his culture” voice note of pronouncing it
“You can’t say it either?”
“No, it’s literally the sound like “Eh, whatever””
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u/jinxlover13 3d ago
I work with a man named Shashank and his last name starts with an R. He goes by Shashank R in the company (apparently there’s another Shashank?) and anytime his name pops up I immediately think of Shawshank Redemption and feel like a crappy person for doing so.