Is it so hard to remember? :)

Even though I already know that, according to Wikipedia, Carlos and Carla rank as the 3rd most popular names in many Spanish-speaking countries, I still don’t understand why many people outside Italy call me Carlos. I’m Italian and Carlo is my name: please, use it to refer to me. :) Carlo (and Karl, Carl, Charles and so on) means “free man” but you are not free to call me Carlos, not at all! :)

Last update: 2007-11-21

This entry was written by Carlo, posted on November 6, 2007 at 9:42 pm, filed under English and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

4 Comments

  1. Andreas Gohr
    Posted November 7, 2007 at 8:40 am | Permalink

    Hehe, many Spanish speaking folks tend to call me Andrea instead of Andreas. Guess, we all have some problems with our names ;-)

  2. Carlo
    Posted November 7, 2007 at 8:50 am | Permalink

    You are right and probably, in an international context, you name creates another problem: if a Spanish speaker calls you “Andrea”, an English speaker could think that you are a woman. :)

  3. Chris F
    Posted December 16, 2007 at 8:21 pm | Permalink

    Hey! I just wanted to say what a great site this is, I came across your site while searching around on Google. Your post, o hard to remember? :) at temporaneità has some good info! Thanks again, keep up the good work and have a great Sunday!

  4. Carlo
    Posted December 16, 2007 at 8:34 pm | Permalink

    Chris: you are welcome… this frozen Sunday is mostly over. :)

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