One of my favorite Brian Regan bits kinda fits, maybe?
“In 1939, Germany invaded Poland. One thing led to another and the United States of America dropped two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan.”
Alter my appearance as much as possible, as many times as possible. Live on cash. Move location as much as possible, I’ll aim to live in my car if I can. Alter my number plate regularly. Get rid of my phone. Live phoneless.
If I’m able I’d also get a gun and a fake ID but not sure if that would be realistic- I wouldn’t know where to seek this.
But eventually money will run out. I don’t think I would last longer than my savings though. I’d be lucky to live a month.
explanation, since this one might be more confusing than most:
Traffic congestion does indeed waste gas. However, any place worth driving to is going to have congestion–driving without congestion is easy, fast, and comfortable, so people generally won’t take other options until roads become congested. Thus, congestion actually reduces gas usage overall, because it is only once areas become congested that people stop driving places.
Trying to avoid congestion, on the other hand, usually involves expanding roads, something which increases driving, and makes other forms of transportation less useful/comfortable, thus increasing gas usage overall.
Perhaps the Italian spelling of the same name, Vitale? I expect anglos to be a bit more used to it than to Slavic names, specially since romanisation adds another layer of complexity. This should stop them from butchering the first vowel, at least.
Keep in mind that no matter the spelling, English speakers are prone to reduce some unstressed vowels until they’re unrecognisable, or to “stress” them randomly; it’s a restriction of the language itself, not the spelling. I kind of predict that they’ll do it with the last vowel of your name no matter the spelling.
Another approach would be to find some similar-sounding local name that you like, I know a few Armenian speakers who did this here in the Southern Cone - for the same reasons as yours, people got a hard time pronouncing their names.
Any way, there’s no “single” answer for that, but I hope that you find one that works for you.
No, I don’t want people to think I’m Italian, but i love Italian language and culture. And i don’t want to change my name completely, maybe i will go with Vito or V+Italy
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