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Hah, anecdote time.

Lived in Israel for a year, needed to fill forms (visa, bank account etc). My name is Benjamin, but the pronounciation is different from English (ja is different, in english it turns to a weird dj as in djungle). Talking english in Israel lead to the transcription of the _english_ pronounciation (they have a special way to encode just that sound as 'ג). So, I have a name that IS more or less hebrew, and exists in a mostly equivalent way in IL, but it was written in a wrong way.

Anecdote 2: Since this dj sound doesn't really exist in Hebrew and needs to be encoded as (in latin letters) g', some programs don't understand that. Copy/pasting one Hebrew mail I got into Google translate lead to my name being translated as bang sex (name in latin latter would kinda look like bng'min, the ' was considered as a delimiter and so bng became bang, and the rest was taken as a separate word). I was confused, my coworkers amused.

My last name was written differently on my cc, my healthcare documents and my apartment contract. Weird times.



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