windsor wrote:
> What can you do if your surname is long and extremely difficult to
> katakana-ise? I wouldn't want people to have to struggle through my
> surname, with about 50 small tsu's and other annoyances, whenever they
> want to address me.
>
> Can a gaijin shorten his surname when converting to katakana?

I don't know how bad your name is but I have a smilar issues with シュレップ
ファー. I've just always told people to call me by my first name: ジェフ.