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20080528 Wednesday May 28, 2008
Concall Confusion Humor

Imagine being on a conference call with the following international coworkers:

  • John (male, English pronunciation)
  • Jon (male, English pronunciation)
  • Jon (male, Scandinavian pronunciation)
  • Jan (male, Scandinavian pronunciation)
  • Jan (female, Scandinavian pronunciation)
  • Juan (male, Spanish pronunciation)
  • Jean (male, French pronunciation)
  • Jean (female, English pronunciation)
  • Yan (male, Chinese pronunciation)
  • Yuen (male, Chinese pronunciation)

Good luck!  Enunciate well.


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Comments:

LOL. How did you manage by the way ? I think you were also specifying their country names while addressing them. Right ?

Posted by ashwin on May 28, 2008 at 03:58 PM PDT #

Last names work best.

Posted by Kevin on May 28, 2008 at 04:20 PM PDT #

You'll just be sending broadcast packets no matter how hard you try not to!

Posted by balajirrao on May 28, 2008 at 04:33 PM PDT #

Would have just hung up after knowing the attendee list. Already have a headache.

Posted by Pam on May 28, 2008 at 05:14 PM PDT #

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