Say My Name, Say My Name (Correctly, Please)

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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When you have a name like Aparna Nancherla or Maz Jobrani, you get used to people butchering it. These two comedians, who both come from immigrant families, talk to Code Switch editor Tasneem Raja about their "Starbucks names," all of the weird ways people mispronounce their names, and whether having a "difficult" name has impacted their careers.

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0:41.6	Demby and I'm here with Coatswitch Editor, Tisnim Rajah.
0:44.6	Hi.
0:45.6	So Tisnim, when we first met, you had this whole stick in how you introduced yourself to us.
0:49.6	Yeah, so I probably said something like, hi, I'm Tisnim.
0:53.6	Tisnim rhymes with bus or Tis like, robot Tisnim.
0:57.6	And I guess it worked because you are one of a very small number of people who usually gets it right.
1:03.6	Usually.
1:04.6	I'll be trying.
1:05.6	We should just say real quick that your name is spelled T-A-S-N-E-E-M.
1:10.6	So, alright, do you always have to do that little stick when you introduce yourself to people?
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