Maitreyi Ramakrishnan on How to Pronounce Her Name

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is happy with her identify, and needs individuals to deal with it with respect. The By no means Have I Ever actress, whose Netflix present not too long ago launched its second season, will get confronted with frequent mispronunciation — and even had clueless critics ask if she’d change her identify when she entered the trade. However as an alternative of additional bending herself to the comfort of others, Maitreyi not too long ago opened up concerning the significance of claiming somebody’s identify proper in a Twitter voice notice.

“Names are so necessary, and I discover that it is a large a part of your identification — it personally is for me. I like my identify so, a lot. And continually, I get individuals saying, ‘Oh, you do not even know learn how to say your personal identify proper.’ It is like, ‘No, no, no, I do. I do know learn how to say my very own identify proper,'” she defined. “As a result of the truth is, nobody is aware of learn how to say another person’s identify aside from the particular person themselves, you already know? Like, that is my identify. I am sorry, however I get to name the photographs right here. There may be one reply and that reply is my very own. There is not any dialogue for that.”

needed to take this voice memo 18490174 occasions as a result of there’s loads to say?✨ pic.twitter.com/sZ867oMJO4

— Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (@ramakrishnannn) July 22, 2021

After breaking down the right method to say her identify, Maitreyi doesn’t permit incorrect variations. She stated, “Now ‘my tree”‘ is enjoyable and all however lets be sure we keep in mind that names have energy. Pronounce individuals’s names the way in which they need it to be pronounced and put within the effort,” and later added she’s simply “asking for primary respect.” Maitreyi put “energetic effort” into emphasizing the facility of pronunciation. “My identify actually is not laborious when you attempt just a few occasions. everybody’s names deserve respect.”