My biggest pet peeve is when people don’t take the time to learn how to pronounce other people’s names, which is why I appreciated a recent segment on the Ellen DeGeneres Show from comedian Hasan Minhaj.
Just a few seconds in, DeGeneres mispronounces his name, and Minhaj corrects her — making the audience laugh along the way. The moment teaches viewers why it’s so important to spend the time and effort to avoid mispronunciations.
“If you can pronounce Ansel Elgort, you can pronounce Hasan Minhaj,” he says.
Later on, he jokes that he uses the name Timothée Chalamet for his Starbucks orders. Read more…
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Hasan Minhaj’s segment on the Ellen DeGeneres Show is a powerful teaching moment syndicated from https://barbarawalston.wordpress.com/
John Ellrod 