If your name is too difficult for the employees at Starbucks to accurately write on the side of a coffee cup, we suggest you take on a coffee-nym. Can’t go wrong with Elvis. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Coffee-nyms”
It seems like there’s a whole subculture on Instagram of only posting photos of Starbucks cups that get your name wrong, right?
So if you have a really complicated name, or even a simple one, it’s amazing how many spellings the baristas at Starbucks will come up with.
Huh, when they ask for your name.
Yeah, so some people have started adopting coffee nims, which is they come up with a simple name for themselves, which can’t be confused and is easy to understand.
Oh, interesting.
So, Jack.
Yeah.
Very simple, one-syllable, easy to spell words.
Coffee nims.
I like that.
So it goes along with your nom de guerre, nom de plume.
I like that.
Right?
It could be a javanim, too.
Javanim.
I kind of like that.
But coffee nims has some legs.
People have started to use it.
I think Elvis is a good one.
Elvis is great.
Who else is?
Yeah, and everybody will look at you, and you’ll have your moment in the spotlight.
Exactly.
I usually make coffee at home, and so I don’t use a coffee now, but Grant is surprisingly hard for people to remember.
Yeah, the Graham.
No, it’s Grant.
Yeah.
Grant.
Or is the British a grant?
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