Not anything that bothers me, just a curiosity of global remote work and our R.
If it's about Rs, I worked on an oil rig with a Mexican guy named Javier. The American OIM had such hard time telling "Javier" (with the two different gutturals) on the tannoy, Javier got called "George" for the rest of our stay.
You very, very quickly get used to introducing yourself in a way that people from that country can pronounce. It’s really not a big deal.
> A name is not a word, is a sound we associate with our selves.
All words are just sounds we arbitrarily associate with various concepts; names are not special in this sense. (In fact, in some languages, the word for “name” and “noun” are the same).
Like every other word, names follow the phonological and phonotactic rules of the language they’re part of. There’s a reason English has John and Spanish has Juan.
"correct pronunciation" to me, in terms of names, roughly means the pronunciation that that person grew with (so it's about where they're from).
And one key difference is the said Portuguese R. It’s trickier than Samuel variations. I think a lot of people would not understand what my name is at all if I pronounce it the way we do it in Brazil.