Shouldn't have done that

[Christopher]

People are learning to be sensitive about other people's preferred pronouns; why can't they be sensitive about how people spell their names?

I don't know if it's about sensitivity as much as memory. It can be hard to remember which variant spelling of a name somebody uses. I always have to double-check with the various forms of Schwartz or Schultz or the like. I get really tired of having to look up everyone named Stephen/Steven because I can never remember which spelling they use, except in a few cases (like Steven Spielberg).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Reminds me of that bit in TNG when Pulaski kept mispronouncing Data's name as "Datta" instead of "Day-ta".

Data's reply was short and to the point: "One is my name. The other is not."

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I don't know if it's about sensitivity as much as memory.

Indeed, and I will note that GC's response to being corrected showed both: he admitted to a lapse of memory (or possibly a slip of the fingers), and then, acting out of sensitivity, corrected himself. Kudos to him for that.

With my two middle initials, both "H," a personal banker at my Credit Union put a note in my account records, giving instructions on how to get my debit card right on the first try (mailed ones are never right, and before the note went into my file, it typically took a teller, concierge, or personal banker two or three tries (and a call to technical support) to get the in-branch card-issuing software to cooperate.

 

[Greg Cox]

Indeed, and I will note that GC's response to being corrected showed both: he admitted to a lapse of memory (or possibly a slip of the fingers), and then, acting out of sensitivity, corrected himself. Kudos to him for that.

Trust me, it was a slip of the fingers. Josepha was a friend of mine; I knew her well.

Meanwhile, back at Tor, another proofreading challenge was Tony Daniel (not "Daniels"). People were always trying to add an "s" at the end of his name, and I was forever correcting it . . . or so it seemed.

 

[The Wormhole]

One he completely forgets about while his on his death bed,

While we can all make fun of just how bad a father Sarek is, maybe not quite as bad as Worf, I don’t see him as that bad. Unification strongly suggests that Spock is his last living child with Michael lost, Sybok dead Spock is seemingly the only one left and I feel that family’s lost too much as it is

Sarek having another son and Spock being his only living child as of Unification are not mutually exclusive ideas.

Or alternatively, Sarek could have so many children even he can't remember them all. For that matter, Sarek may not even be able to recall the entire family on any given day. After all, in Yesteryear, all Spock had to do is say he was "Cousin Selek" and no further questions were asked.

 

[Christopher]

Or alternatively, Sarek could have so many children even he can't remember them all. For that matter, Sarek may not even be able to recall the entire family on any given day. After all, in Yesteryear, all Spock had to do is say he was "Cousin Selek" and no further questions were asked.

That's not unreasonable, since he claimed to be a distant cousin. I have cousins I've never met or only met once, and I don't remember all their names. Heck, I read science articles about a paleontologist who's a near-namesake of mine, S. Christopher Bennett, years before I discovered he was actually my cousin.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I, too, have distant cousins (mostly on my dad's side) I've never met, nor even heard of until they popped out of the proverbial woodwork.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Before Dishonor having veteran all-the-way-back-to-2364-launch Enterprise officer Miranda Kadohata taking part in a mutiny against Picard. But that's Before Dishonor for you.

Such a missed opportunity. Miranda should have been inserted into novels set during the seven years of the series, but no one was doing seven-years mission stories at the time.

They talked about how Vaughn was the captain of DS9 for a couple of years. Are there books of that time period that I miss?

Loved Vaughn!

This page might be useful:
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Elias_Vaughn

 

[Steve Roby]

They had a miniseries recently called "Coda" where they erased most of the worst mistakes

Coda erased all of the books' mistakes and everything they did right, too. On the one hand, it was a good thing to wrap up the litverse. On the other, it would be nice to think those versions of those characters were still living their lives and having adventures in a universe we just can't access any more.

If we're still doing names, a big part of the reason I often go by Steve is because nine out of ten people will ignore the fact that my name is spelled Steven and write Stephen instead. Not much I can do about my last name, which is all of four letters long but never fails to baffle people. Roby looks like and rhymes with Toby and Moby. Hooked on phonics: when there's one consonant between two vowels, the first vowel is frequently long. When there's two consonants, it's short. Count them. It's not pronounced Robby, it doesn't rhyme with Bobby, and it's not my first name. It's also not Ruby or Robey or Robie. I won't even get into my middle name.

 

[The Wormhole]

nine out of ten people will ignore the fact that my name is spelled Steven and write Stephen instead.

I got the opposite problem. My name is Stephen, but everyone always assumes it's Steven.

 

[Steve Roby]

Funny how no one ever assumes Steve must be spelled Stephe, though...

 

[KRAD]

why can't they be sensitive about how people spell their names?

I feel your pain, believe me.

Signed,
---Kieth DiCanido

 

[Greg Cox]

I feel your pain, believe me.

Signed,
---Kieth DiCanido

I thought you were K. Robert Andreassi.

 

[Stevil2001]

Whenever I publish something, obviously I get the proofs of my contribution, but then I e-mail the editor and say something like, "Please look EVERYWHERE my name might appear (e.g., contributor list, table of contents, author bios) and verify that it is spelled with TWO N's." Sometimes they even actually do this.

 

[David cgc]

I just remembered, my name was very nearly misspelled in Ships of the Line 2016, though luckily the on-line previews come out before they actually print the calendars, so I was able to email my contact and get it corrected.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Several of my school ribbons and certificates are made out to "Jan" McLean, or have evidence of someone using an ink eraser to change the "J" to an "I". (Additionally, back in the days of cursive writing, any "I" with a flourish that crossed the main stem made that "I" into a "J".)

Pronunciation of "McLean" is forever a problem. It rhymes with "Lean" and "Clean", but so many people insist it should be McLean as in "Lane". My cousin was a barrister and actually changed the pronunciation his family uses because judges kept getting his surname wrong.

 

[bdub76]

Make the characters so socially dysfunctional in Star Trek: Next Generation. They started out okay, but for some reason, the writers wanted to push their dysfunction.

 

[Greg Cox]

My name is not much of a challenge, although people occasionally try to spell Greg as "Gregg."

Thankfully, I've only seen "Greg Cocks" once or twice!

 

[F. King Daniel]

Plural? The man's a Klingon!

 

[Steve Roby]

My name is not much of a challenge, although people occasionally try to spell Greg as "Gregg." !

I ised to know a guy whose first name was spelled Greig. I imagine he spent a lot of time spelling that out. Uncommon last name, too