Say My Name, Say My Name (Correctly, Please)
Say My Name, Say My Name (Correctly, Please)
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When you have a name like Aparna Nancherla or Maz Jobrani, you get used to people butchering it. These two comedians, who both come from immigrant families, talk to Code Switch editor Tasneem Raja about their “Starbucks names,” all of the weird ways people mispronounce their names, and whether having a “difficult” name has impacted their careers.