Comments on: Is it really that hard to spell “Christopher?”

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:45:01 +0000

Just stumbled upon this and have to say that although my name was never butchered during my time in Spain, my roommate’s was (Heather). We all know how the H is supposed to be silent! It sounded like they were calling her “ether.” And we also had a Japanese boy come to live with us and study and his name was Tatsuya. The Starbuck’s people had NO idea what he said when they asked his name and made absolutely no attempt to even write it. Instead, they simply wrote, “Este muchacho” which was quite funny to us! Poor Tatsuya had no clue what was going on as he had just arrived and didn’t speak more than a few phrases of Spanish. :/

By: Victor

Victor — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:18:16 +0000

hahahahah See… we all have problems with our names!!! We need a Standard for Names… hahahahha

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:25:37 +0000

@Victor – That’s an interesting point about the surname thing. Now that you mention it, the exact opposite happens to me in Spain. I have one surname but a first and middle name… so, here in Spain my middle name is often used as my first surname and my real surname is used as my second surname. So, people here refer to me as Señor MIDDLE NAME instead of referring to me as Señor LAST NAME.

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:05:44 +0000

hahahah That’s strange because I’m sure most of people in Spain must have heard the name… I mean, it’s not that strange or uncommon… I have a problem with that because my surname has a ñ in it… So when I travel my tickets, hotel reservations etc… never match my DNI… hahahah And another funny thing that happens to spaniards when abroad is that we have 2 surnames and when we fill a form we have to use only one or join both of them with a “-” because if not they tend to think the first one is a second name and they would refer to us as Mr. SecondSurname… and that’s weird…