Cool, thanks. Also thanks for not choosing to believe others have the psychic powers to know what my meaning or intentions are. If I meant to offend anyone, I'd just do it. Not play childish games with the manner of addressing my questions. The actual fact is that I didn't want to keep mangling your name every time I read it. Clearly to anyone sane, this implies respect, not disrespect. If I had no respect for you, I would not give a rip how it was pronounced. Also, 'do me a favour' is a colloquialism for 'please'. As for respecting privacy, given your name is in your signature on every post, I think it's safe to say the pronunciation is not a state secret. My own preference is not to post my personal details on public Internet lists to be mauled and ripped by every spam harvester's bot hordes. I respect other's choice to hide or broadcast their personal information. So to be clear to all who read this. Mr. Wouter van Ooijen, Sir, it has come to my attention that I am not in possession of the language skills to properly pronounce your name as I read it in all of your posts to this public forum. If it please you sir, share this information with me so that I may, in future, properly pronounce your name as I consider it disrespectful to continue to mispronounce the name of someone of your obvious skills and standing in the community. Thank you, aka Tachyon :-D Wouter van Ooijen wrote: >> Howard Winter wrote: >> >>>> Do me a favour and spell your name phonetically >>>> (both first and last) so I know how to 'hear' it in my >>>> mind when I read it all the time on this list. >>>> I'm pretty good with foreign langs and accents, >>>> but I'm sure I'm mangling yours. >>>> >>> As nobody seems to have answered, ... >>> >> This is because the guy: >> - asked without "please"; it's impolite. >> - asked about personal info without naming himself; it's heck >> of impolite. >> - started a message with "Hey" to a respected person; it's >> ***** impolite. >> > > No need to try to attribute anything to more complex reasons when human > error is sufficient. (This rule can be applied to most complot therories > as well.) > > I missed the message, so I never responded. I probably missed it because > I was moving to a new house, and afterwards had to catch up with 500+ > piclist messages. When I have all my gear up and some customers off my > back I'll make a sound snippet on my webpage pronouncing my name. > > PS the post I am now replying to has an attribution error: the text > below "Howard Winter wrote" was *not* written by Howard. > > Wouter van Ooijen > > -- ------------------------------------------- > Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: www.voti.nl > consultancy, development, PICmicro products > docent Hogeschool van Utrecht: www.voti.nl/hvu > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist