Lost In Translation – I Can’t Spell, Apparently

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In Latin America I have had to spell my name out many, many times. I can honestly report that not a single time have the ten letters been transcribed correctly by the person on the other side – and that is when they actually try. Often they hand the pen or keyboard over to me to write my name.

When I went to Ingapirca I had to give my name and passport number to enter. Below you can see the results. I removed my passport number, but just above it is my name: Adm Pruv.

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I can understand that it can be difficult working with foreign accents and everything, but I can’t understand how they’d miss the “Z” at the end. In Spanish “Z” is pronounced “zeta.” Pretty distinct.

In the past, for important stuff, I spell my name by saying “A como Ana, D como David, A como Ana, M como Miguel” and do the same for my last name. This always works.

It’s just frustrating from my side since I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I know the Spanish letters and I don’t know why I can never communicate them properly. I guess it’s my pinche gringo accent!

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