Very Mature

So in the past two days I've read about a gazillion pages for various classes (about 200, to be exact, with many more in the days before that, and even more in the days to come), which included case law, essays, articles, and various news stories related to the themes of what we're studying. One of the news stories dealt with the proliferation of online gambling which is "illegal" in the United States... but what that actually means is open to interpretations. Anyway, the news article, outlined the development of one very large online gambling company, which originally started out in the United States, but has since moved on to Europe. Among its developers, the article credits an Indian engineer, whose last name is.... Dikshit.

Dikshit.

I kid you not.

When I saw that, I was brought back about ten years to the junior high school state of mind, when my friend and I would just about die laughing whenever either of us (or our incredibly annoying gym/health teacher), uttered the word "thing", which of course stood for a very specific part of male anatomy.

Those were the days.

Ahem.

In parenthesis, the authors of the articles for some reason found it necessary to explain that the guy's name was actually pronounced "DiX- sit"... I wonder why. I am also wondering how many people, besides the author of the article, actually knew that when the poor guy would come into the room if they just read it off a piece of paper.

Oh what hilarity must have ensued.

Seriously, if I were him living in the States, I would seriously consider changing my last name.

I have a feeling that when we discuss the article in class, someone will undoubtedly bring him up, and that someone will "forget" how it's supposed to be pronounced. And by the way, the "real" pronunciation is confusing, and doesn't sound right either.

I like Dikshit better.

Yes, I am in law school, and as you can see, very mature.

This is the future lawyer of America here.

Pompous,
Irina