Should People be Made

[grandmoon]

too Anglicises their names.

I overheard a woman telling a refugee that he should anglicise his name so she could understand it .

[aps1080]

"Very handy - for anyone who is not illiterate, as many refugees(particularly women) may be; and useful too if you have a working knowledge of the Latin alphabet - as opposed to the Arabic, Russian, Greek ones etc"

One of the languages the council uses for communicating it's courses is Persian.

Covers a fair few Muslims and even some who don't use Persian, the two being similar.

[lal-au0]

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@imastawka wrote:

Nope!!

It's their name and we should live with it.

But being Aussies, we'll shorten it for 'em    

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they don't just shorten they also distort beyond recognition.

at the pharmacy when my name was called i only knew that it was i being called because none of the other customers moved to collect their drugs. i deducted that therefore it must be me.

imagine that you can't recognise your own name because aussies distort it into something else you could have never imagined. *rolls eyes*

don't get me started on my first name. it's an easy to pronounce 3 letter name. they don't even try.

[tasfleur]

Bonsoir aps xxx ... Québec est une belle province et ainsi est la langue. Il ya des gens qui ne aiment pas la langue française, mais, ce est comment il est accepté.

I'm still dreaming of a white Christmas .... 

[lal-au0]

tasfleur, they are just jealous cos english is the ugliest language on earth whereas french is beautiful. 

[tasfleur]

I don't think that anyone should be made to anglicise their name in a new country they go to, why should they.

I did though, but it was strictly my choice to do so and and never ever because anyone asked it or demanded it of me .... 

[tasfleur]

I love the English language as well lal-au I must admit, but then again, I speak four different languages as well as a little latin which doesn't work anywhere other than to understand the grass roots of linguistics.

The only languages that I would never like to have to learn are some of the Scandanavian ones.

[lal-au0]

i gave up on aussies trying to spell or even pronounce my name, even though there is an australian city and university with that name *rolls eyes*

i just give them my husbands name, it's easier.

well, actually when i am with my husband i let him do the talking.

i am tired of blank faces when i say "my name is *******  just like the town/university".

[tasfleur]

I should follow that up by saying that I do love the Norwegian, Danish, Finnish etc languages, but they are very difficult to learn compared to some .... 

[tasfleur]

Oh how I understand that lal_au, truly I do for many reasons xxx

[lal-au0]

i wouldn't mind learning scandinavian languages or french, or eastern european languages if i lived there.

it's a matter of respect and practicality.

there a re 2 reasons though why native english speakers don't often seriously try to speak the language of the foreign country they live in:

1) lack of respect (the imperial mindset) and thinking that everyone speaks english so they don't have to bother learning a foreign language.

2) the english language is so simple and lacks grammar so they have a really hard time to understand grammar that simply does not exist in english.

but mainly i think it's just that they are lazy and have a feeling of superiority stemming from the time of the british empire =  plain arrogance.