No I would hate it if they called me Ethan. I'm Eitan. Not Ethan. I would rather they embaress themselves trying to pronounce Eitan into "eye-taan" or "eeee-tin" or whatever, than forcibly colonize my name into Ethan.
Wait I didn’t mean to offend. I’m just saying if they’re going to mispronounce it, the closest mispronounciation would be Ethan, since that’s close to Eitan and not a completely different sounding name entirely. I’m not saying they should do it, just that that mispronunciation is the only one that makes sense to me to do lol. Like how mistakenly calling someone named Angela, Angelina makes sense since the names are already similar.
Except it's not the same, because "Ethan" isn't a mispronounciation, it's a deliberate anglicization. It's not a mistake of someone trying to pronounce a name, it's someone deliberately changing a name to make it sound more palatable for themselves.
When my professor calls me "Eye-tan" or my gentile friends call me "Ee-tin", they're not doing it maliciously, and they at least recognize that my name is Eitan, and not another name. They're at least trying to recognize my name.
If someone were to call me "Ethan", they're deliberately calling me a different name because it makes their lives easier, and not just any name, but a name that is a signal of foreign powers long ago taking our names and texts and twisting them.
If someone else is named "Ethan", that's none of my business, but my name is not that.













