Comment by isoprophlex
4 years ago
People are just incredibly dense sometimes. My wife has a name that's one letter different from a more common name, but clearly different in pronunciation.
Nevertheless there have been countless times where people automatically substitute the more common name, or even worse in text messages manage to misread it and reply incorrectly.
It sometimes upsets her. The npc analogy is very apt, i guess many people are just very preoccupied?!
> or even worse in text messages manage to misread it and reply incorrectly
Overzealous autocorrect can happen to names, too. There's a whole thing about Asian names not being in computer spellcheck dictionaries: https://www.abbynews.com/news/youre-not-a-mistake-b-c-group-...
That used to drive me crazy at work where we have lots of chinese, indian and other asian names. Fortunately it seems that Outlook now checks words against the names in the TO/FROM fields.
Not just Asian names; my SO's (English-language) nickname frequently autocorrects to its common homophone. I can always tell who proofreads their texts by how it ends up spelled.
Try typing ‘Siân’ on iOS, (well, maybe Sian) and it autocorrects to Asian.
Unhelpful, though luckily found funny when I did it.