Giving yourself a "local name"

[Chron]

Does anyone ever do this when they travel?

Say your name is John, and you go to Spain on vacation. Would you tell people your name is John, or would you introduce yourself as Juan?

[Beowulf]

when i travel to other places i don't translate my name it doesn't really need translation.

[InmostLight]

I've never heard of anyone doing this, other than some of my Chinese friends at uni, who adopt English nicknames for pronouncability's sake.

Come to think of it, I know very few Chinese international students who use their given name in the classroom. I did have a Mongolian employee, though, who said "I'm not going to work until you pronounce my name correctly" when I was taking role call. His name had 13 letters and was mostly consonants. Kinda based when you think about it. I still think about him years later. I've never met someone with such chaotically powerful masculine energy.

I honestly think it's weird and pandering to introduce yourself with a local variant of your name. It may make sense for long-term international stays, though.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

My name is not translatable or has an equivalent in other languages besides Spanish.

[PlattitüdenPaule]

Just going for Rhinestone Cowboy if I'll travel to the US.

[Aspirin]

My name is very pan-European and is pronounced the same in the most European languages, so I don't care about such "problem".

[capocannoniere]

For anywhere of the Nordistan, I'd use an adapted name. For any romance language, it's okay and even pan-Southern European in some way.

[Mortimer]

I use a easier pronouncable nickname here in Austria.

[BakersfieldChimp]

In truth, I have only passed through Bakersfield once.



Seriously, I relocated to my current location a few years back. The university I did my undergrad and my first name alliterates... some call me that since there are a few of us who share the same first name. I'm not fond of it, but I don't argue because something worse might stick.

[hurtuv]

Lol, fuck no.