(Ed. Note: I won’t be posting all of my Formspring answers on my Tumblr because I know how annoying that can be and I don’t want to take up people’s precious Dashboard space with things that are not iPhone pictures of cats; however, I just felt like this was something you all NEEDED TO KNOW about me.)
You have such a pretty name. Are people always mangling it? What’s the worst version you’ve ever seen on junk mail?
People mess up my name so frequently that I don’t even notice it anymore. I most often get called “Marie” or by my last name “Lara.” I can see why people would call me those two things since, in the case of “Marie,” I don’t pronounce my name with any Spanish trill and “Lara” is a fairly uncommon Hispanic last name in America (as opposed to Lopez, Gonzalez, etc.) and is mostly known in the US as a first name. So, I mean, whatevs.
The junk mail versions of my name are always messed up, usually because my name is long. “Mariamerced” is probably the worst one that I’ve seen.
It is funny because when people mess up my name it doesn’t really bother me. One woman at my work has insisted on calling me “Marie” so I’ve given up on correcting her. The only thing that annoys me is that when I tell people my name is “Maria” they immediately start belting out “Maria” from West Side Story, or some other “Maria” song. Or, if they are in their mid-thirties and Hispanic, they start singing the theme song from the popular telenovela starring a young Thalia called “Maria Mercedes.” UGH! Now that is the worst.
