Estonian?

[randomness]

I had an odd conversation with the customer service rep at my phonecard company, www.dialaroundtheworld.com*. The CSR asked me if I were originally from Europe, and when I asked why he said my last name was a Baltic name.

"Lithuanian? Latvian? Estonian?" I asked.
"Estonian," he said. "I'm from Estonia, that's why I ask."

His English was quite good but he did have a faint accent which I would have identified as Russian had he not volunteered that he was Estonian.

I didn't have the heart to tell him it was translated from 馬, so after deciding not to start a conversation about how nice I thought Tallinn was, I thanked him for the information and wished him a nice day.


*pointer to which provided long ago by mattlistener. Thanks again, btw!

Comments

[frotz.livejournal.com]

What did you need to talk to their customer service about? One of their nice aspects to me is their simplicity and functionality; I'm not sure what one could ask them about.

Hmm, unless this is in relation to their new plan which, apparently, has half the rates of the old plan to the lower 48, but uses a separate and parallel set of dialups and PINs; that's abominably documented. See talk1000.rnktel.com for more info thereon.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was just putting more money on an existing card.