(ADAMIC) How to Talk to Girls at Parties
(GAIMAN) yeah
(ADAMIC) First off just because I know as soon people watch the video they're going to immediately question me, "kneel gay-MEN" right?
(GAIMAN) yep
(ADAMIC) But people don't call you that. they always screw up your name.
(GAIMAN) actually mostly these days...
(MITCHELL) they get it right now.  "GUY-men" they used to say.
(GAIMAN) what used to happen was...
you'd get a core of people going around correct. Pronouncing it right
and then another bunch of people pronouncing it wrong and...
(MITCHELL) with authority... (GAIMAN) with authority!
Exactly! And then people the ones who got
it wrong would always confused me with Neil Diamond.
(laughter)
(ADAMIC) I actually called up a comic book shop because I wanted to read the graphic novel
See how it compares the movie. And I call up and I said,
"yeah I'm looking for this 'kneel gay-MEN' graphic novel"
and they said " 'kneel GUY-men! has done several graphic novels..."
(MITCHELL) Oh he was very fancy about it.
(GAIMAN) no it is always with authority. That's the thing that...
That is actually perfect because you need the kind of people in the front of the comic book shop...
to both...mispronounce it and mispronounce it in that kind of way that.... (MITCHELL) superior
(GAIMAN) Correct, puts you in your place!  But no you were right.
(ADAMIC) I started questioning myself.  I went "I have this wrong. I'm totally going to meet the guy and just offend him and he's just going to storm out."
(GAIMAN) I won't.  It's perfect.
(ADAMIC) I found of video of you online saying "No my name is 'kneel GAY-men"
(GAIMAN) Mhm.  There's a useful...
there's a terrific little...
how author's names are pronounced website for a sort of a librarian and schools resource.
(MITCHELL) John "came-RUN mit-CHULL"
(GAIMAN) Yes!
(MITCHELL) If you don't mind.
(GAIMAN) "mit-CHULL"
(ADAMIC) Ohh.  Yeah I was actually going to screw that one up.
(MITCHELL) nice
I thought he had the complicated one you had the easy one.  Apparently not.
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