added to the list of Things I Do Not Understand

[serinde]

All email sent from my work account has my full name in the GECOS field.

All email sent from my work account has my full name in the .signature.

People keep responding to email from my work account with my name variably, and invariably, misspelled.

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[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

My login is tlim.

A few times each week I get email addressed to "Tim"

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

"There are some who call you...Tim" ?

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

"Tim the SysAdmin! I grep at your lack of faith!"

[elibalin.livejournal.com]

This is either an example of how perceptions are altered by expectations, or your correspondents are borderline illiterate.

Yrs,
Miss Ellis Balloon

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, some people's brains just do not store glyphs, and have to make a round-trip conversion to flapping-meat-noises whenever they want to manipulate text.

But I Am Not A Neuroscientist.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Lurking Girl has been spending too mych tim around Typo Lad.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

You should try having a name with an apostrophe...

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

My personal pet peeve is when people misspell my name as well. It's not a hard name. Really.

It's Glenn.

Not Glen.

I have friends whom I've known for 10+ years who insist on misspelling my name this way. So when they do it, I reply by leaving the letter off of their name. Odd, but they never seem to notice.

My last name I give people a pass on. Even though it's merely four letters, it's been spelled everything from Ceeb to Seib to Sahib. That just makes me chuckle. I remember in 6th grade, my English teacher wrote a note home to my parents for some reason, to Mr. and Mrs. Seib.

My Mom's reply? "Excuse me, but for an English teacher, you should know that the rule is I before E except after C."

My teacher Was Not Amused. Even though I did get a good chuckle.

[crypticgirl.livejournal.com]

There are two commonly known ways to spell my name: the biblical version and the 'Star Wars' version. The way most people default, anyone would think I had my hair in fricking curly buns.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I take it Donnie Iris was not so much a hit down under (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah%21_Leah%21)?

[crypticgirl.livejournal.com]

That album was released the same year as me. I really, really hope this is mere coincidence...

[spride.livejournal.com]

I don't think they use Reply in their MUA. I'm sure they retype everything from scratch. It wouldn't even surprise me if they actually retyped quoted text in replies, with typos.

[fivetonsflax.livejournal.com]

Mail droid holding package: "Are you, uh," glancing down at the label, "Ben Rosenberg?"
Me, sighing: "Yes."

My name was spelled correctly and legibly on the label. (It isn't Rosenberg.)