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I work a lot of college events, and once worked a graduation reception at an engineering school. We were able to watch the graduation on TV while we waited for the ceremony to end, and I marvelled at how well the Dean strolled through all those Indian and Chinese names like it was nothing.
I met him at the reception afterwards, and told him how impressed I was with his pronunciations, and he said “I work with my assistant for six weeks before graduation, practicing their names. They paid a lot of money, and worked really hard to get to this point, the least I can do is get their names right at their graduation.”
And he was absolutely sincere when he said it, and I was impressed even more.
I work a lot of college events, and once worked a graduation reception at an engineering school. We were able to watch the graduation on TV while we waited for the ceremony to end, and I marvelled at how well the Dean strolled through all those Indian and Chinese names like it was nothing.
I met him at the reception afterwards, and told him how impressed I was with his pronunciations, and he said “I work with my assistant for six weeks before graduation, practicing their names. They paid a lot of money, and worked really hard to get to this point, the least I can do is get their names right at their graduation.”
And he was absolutely sincere when he said it, and I was impressed even more.