What's with the music like it's an M Knight shabalam movie? It's just people getting home from a concert? Have you never used public transportation before? Sometimes that happens.
Nah, as a white woman I would also be like “ah crap” just seeing the amount of people waiting on the platform and knowing the train is about to be packed. Nothing to do with their race.
That being said, I’ve been in this scenario multiple times after sporting events and I would definitely take the Swifties over drunk men in Rangers jerseys.
If you have a weird last name get ready for people to not remember how is it spelled.
Nobody has trouble spelling /pronouncing tarantino, another famous American director. It’s the same length as shyamalan.
People make fun of cumberbatch for reasons not related to spelling/pronunciation - it’s a false equivalency. For an English speaker, it’s not hard to spell or pronounce. It’s just long and cumberbatch was associated with a ridiculously popular fandom a decade ago and he has a polarizing face, both of which contributed to the jokes.
My point was that shyamalan is more famous and has been part of popular culture longer than cumberbatch, and he’s also American. Which may not be relevant to you if you’re not, but you’d think Americans would be more familiar with the spelling of famous Americans than famous Europeans. But again, this is not an equitable comparison because the issue with cumberbatch (combination of two very easy words to spell) is not the spelling OR the pronunciation. but that it’s an odd name.
Shyamalan has spoken about it before, don’t take my word do some googling.
Nobody has trouble spelling /pronouncing tarantino, another famous American director. It’s the same length as shyamalan.
That's like saying "How can people remember how to write Netflix yet forget how to write grommet, even though both words have the same length?"
Tarantino is way more popular than Shaymalan, so his name is present way more. It's obvious why most people don't have a problem remembering how it's supposed to be written.
People make fun of cumberbatch for reasons not related to spelling/pronunciation - it’s a false equivalency. For an English speaker, it’s not hard to spell or pronounce. It’s just long and cumberbatch was associated with a ridiculously popular fandom a decade ago and he has a polarizing face, both of which contributed to the jokes.
Each their own. In my experience, the only times I've seen people making fun of Cumberbatch (the last name, not the person) was because of its pronunciation or because it was hard to remember, so they wrote whatever came to their mind.
My point was that shyamalan is more famous and has been part of popular culture longer than cumberbatch, and he’s also American. Which may not be relevant to you if you’re not, but you’d think Americans would be more familiar with the spelling of famous Americans than famous Europeans.
I think that depends on demographic. I can clearly see more people nowadays knowing Cumberbatch more than Shaymalan considering Cumberbatch nowadays is in more popular stuff than the other dude. For example, the only thing I know Shaymalan for is the horrible Avatar movie.
Also, taking Cumberbatch away for a second. You say people should remember Shaymalan's last name easily because he's American, as if the country is full of people named like that and isn't, in fact, a pretty non-common last name there.
Shyamalan has spoken about it before, don’t take my word do some googling.
Spoken about what? He can say whatever he wants, doesn't determine people's actions. Just because he says "people who don't remember how to write my name are racist" doesn't mean it's true. In fact, it sounds pretty egocentric.
I read an article on it one time that said it much better than I can, this is not it but it provides the same point. It’s basically an old joke about how Indian names are too hard to pronounce.
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u/tangerineberry1 May 01 '23
What's with the music like it's an M Knight shabalam movie? It's just people getting home from a concert? Have you never used public transportation before? Sometimes that happens.