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What do you all make of punishing prof for requesting this student Anglicize her name?
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‘Cuz I’m a decent guy and I make a pretty good friend. If you have toilet paper trailing from your shoe, or you tucked your skirt in to your skivvies I’ll tell you. Ditto if your given name might cause you grief in the future.

If you already know and are good with it, I’m good with it too and I’ll call you whatever you want to be called.

But I might still give you a nickname. I’d expect nothing less from you.


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I had a friend whose job at the time was a receptionist in a doctor's office. The man's last name was "Fuchs" - which she didn't think about and just called out for Mr. F.cks. He corrected her with the proper pronunciation which would sound something like "Fooks."
 
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I had a friend whose job at the time was a receptionist in a doctor's office. The man's last name was "Fuchs" - which she didn't think about and just called out for Mr. F.cks. He corrected her with the proper pronunciation which would sound something like "Fooks."

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Once asked a woman with the last name Fuchs how to pronounce it. She said, "Fox".


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OTOH, the electrical inspector in a nearby town is still....

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OTOH, the electrical inspector in a nearby town is still....

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Oh, deer ...


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