https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/new-boy/ Recent content in New-Boy on A Geek's Life Hugo en Wed, 06 Jan 2016 21:11:20 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2016/01/06/4-of-names/ Wed, 06 Jan 2016 21:11:20 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2016/01/06/4-of-names/ <p>At the coffee machine, catching up with the new,  younger engineer who shares my first name, he asks me what my surname is. I give him the anglicized, easy to pronounce version which doesn&rsquo;t satisfy him. He asks me how I would pronounce it - cue five attempts, after each of which he fails colossally to reproduce the sounds I make somehow ending up adding, subtracting and transposing syllables through his various attempts.</p>