Your pet peeves

[Giselle]

Whoops, haha, I never do searches. Thanks slick!

[Lady's Human]

Actually, oriental is a term for the east, which includes Asia, therefor it would be grammatically correct.

[Miss Z]

One of my pet peeves is when people can't pronounce my name right!!! It is a simple four lettered name, and yet people still call me Sara or Sarah. It really gets on my nerves (no offence to people called Sara or Sarah of course, but I just wanted to be called by my name)! Last year a German lady came to help out in my German lesson and couldn't stop calling me 'tsahaira', even though I told her multiple times how to say Zara. Ggggrrrrrr!!! What makes it worse is that I have a very unusual surname, so if I ever tell someone my name, I have to tell them about 10 times, because they think they must have heard it wrong and that no-one could possibly have that surname! They usually think I've said Sarah Evans, to give you a clue of my last name, as I don't feel that comfortable posting my real surname publically

[lady_zana]

One of my pet peeves is when people can't pronounce my name right!!! It is a simple four lettered name, and yet people still call me Sara or Sarah. It really gets on my nerves (no offence to people called Sara or Sarah of course, but I just wanted to be called by my name)!

I am right next to you, sister! My name is Zana - it rhymes with Dana. I've been called all sorts of things: Dana, Lana, Zona, even Zora.

I lived in the same small town my entire life until I went to college. All my teachers knew me and knew to pronounce my name "Zana." Then, one of my cousins married a girl named "Jana" (rhymes with Anna) from a different part of the state. Eeep! The name confusion! People wanted to rhyme our names and ended up not getting either one of them right!

[lady_zana]

Actually, oriental is a term for the east, which includes Asia, therefor it would be grammatically correct.

But I don't suppose it would be politically correct. It's hard to know exactly what the "correct" term is for any race today - so many people want to be called something different. But I think "Asian" is the most common, most correct term to use today.