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The Saddest Rhino posted:Name him 手拉手 lmao GEORGE W BUSHI posted:Sort of? If you take a Chinese class the teacher might give you a name that actually means something but like any official stuff I had where they translated my name into Chinese they just used the closest phonetic equivalents without much regard for whether I'd picked out a super special name. Yeah, there are a few characters that are pretty much only used to transliterate names so it's relatively easy to spot one of those. FWIW my mum just picked a couple of characters that she thought sound nice together and have a classic boy name meaning. No need to consult anyone else. I don't have an English name either, the only time I have ever used one was one for work whenever I had to talk to Australians over the phone and didn't want to explain how to spell my name. My last name has no vowels so it is especially funny to watch people unfamiliar with it try to say it.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:made a post I didn't really like, so it's gone now I saw that original post, and I agree that everyone over 60 should be rendered down into fine industrial greases and lubricants.
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AlbieQuirky posted:That’s a nonsense take even from Sully. I mean, yeah, there is Black antisemitism out there, but it’s a drop in the ocean of white antisemitism. It makes perfect sense if you come from the position that actual racism doesn’t exist and is not a problem, but anti-colonialist sentiment is A Big Problem. Thus the only actually oppression is when people oppose white supremacy, but that’s a really hard sell outside the fashosphere, so instead you wait for them to even mildly criticize Israel because then you can call them anti-Semites, which is what the nazis were! The fact that you are politically aligned with the actual nazis and share NWO conspiracies and call for the lynching of (((George Soros))) is immaterial, you have called the other side nazis and therefore you are now equals at worst. Something something that one Sartre quote. E; whoops there were more pages
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Ibblebibble posted:I don't have an English name either, the only time I have ever used one was one for work whenever I had to talk to Australians over the phone and didn't want to explain how to spell my name. Yep, that checks out
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:It's probably a thing if little Silas takes a Chinese language class. They do it in the highschool language (french/spanish) classes where i am, picking a new "native" name to go by in class. I guess it helps the kids get into the flow of the right pronunciation and stuff instead of having to code-switch between speaking the language they're trying to learn and then going back to english to say their name with a totally different set of sounds. I had a French teacher who gave a French spin to students' names, so Jan/John became Jean, Willem/William became Guillame and Matthijs/Matthew became Matthieu. She had trouble adapting one of the names, so she handed that male student a book with French names. I'm sad that I don't remember what he picked, because it sounded ridiculous to our teenage ears and the teacher used it with such a serious tone every single time. It lead to a lot of laughs in the first month of that class. But I think letting everyone pick their name is a better approach these days tho, since there's such a wide variance in first names these days. In my youth there were still a lot of biblical names. Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 11:18 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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Most Chinese people I know who adopted western names did so because they were tired of people mispronouncing their actual name.
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BirdOfPlay posted:Only the modern pentathlon uses "unknown" horses. In all other events, the horse and rider have trained for a while before competing.
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I used to work with and Indian-born desi guy who went by David. I assumed that was a western name he picked arbitrarily but no, his family are evangelical Christians and that's his given name.Mierenneuker posted:I had a French teacher who gave a French spin to students' names, so Jan/John became Jean, Willem/William became Guillame and Matthijs/Matthew became Matthieu. She had trouble adapting one of the names, so she handed that male student a book with French names. I'm sad that I don't remember what he picked, because it sounded ridiculous to our teenage ears and the teacher used it with such a serious tone every single time. It lead to a lot of laughs in the first month of that class. My 7th grade French teacher had us pick a French name, and he started by telling you what the French version of your name would be if there was one that he knew. A couple people picked unrelated names for fun, one kid picked Andre presumably because of the giant.
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Scratch Monkey posted:Most Chinese people I know who adopted western names did so because they were tired of people mispronouncing their actual name. Westerners can be pretty lazy when it comes to foreign sounding names but lets not pretend Chinese doesn't have lots of sounds and structure that is pretty hard to pronounce for most westerners. Similar to how most Asian people I met when I travelled could not pronounce my western name. If I was moving out there I'd probably pick a new local name.
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Mega Comrade posted:Westerners can be pretty lazy when it comes to foreign sounding names but lets not pretend Chinese doesn't have lots of sounds and structure that is pretty hard to pronounce for most westerners. Similar to how most Asian people I met when I travelled could not pronounce my western name. If I was moving out there I'd probably pick a new local name. I'm European and I've never had any foreigner pronounce my name correctly. e: Well maybe some Swedes.
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There was a exchange student at my school whose surname was Kun, which seems really simple but for two years I only ever heard the conversation "Kun?" "Kun." "...Kun?" "It's Kun." "Yeah, I said- ok, Kun." "Close! More like, Kun." "K- Kyun?" "It's okay! It's hard! You don't have to say it." "But I want to!" "  (K but you can't)"
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm European and I've never had any foreigner pronounce my name correctly. My friend Craig has a small fit every time anyone uses the American 'Creg' pronunciation. It can be handy as he's partially deaf so it can be hard to get his attention sometimes. Call him 'Creg' and you will have his attention.
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Mega Comrade posted:My friend Craig has a small fit every time anyone uses the American 'Creg' pronunciation. It can be handy as he's partially deaf so it can be hard to get his attention sometimes. Call him 'Creg' and you will have his attention. He should come here so I can call him Sraik. e: Seriouspost: no-one should come here.
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Mega Comrade posted:My friend Craig has a small fit every time anyone uses the American 'Creg' pronunciation. It's not my name, but I'm with him on this. Used to deal with an Indian call center about 15 years ago due to my job, I always presumed Monica was a fan of Friends and Twinkle was a fan of stars.
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One of my dad's former business partners back in the 80s was a guy named José. He was a Taiwanese dude who was raised in an orphanage by nuns, who would let the kids choose their own names from a big book of names once they were old enough to read. Only José wanted to get a thoroughly American name like "Joe", but his reading skills weren't as strong as his enthusiasm, hence him pointing at the wrong name and subsequently enduring a life of people being very surprised whenever they met him face to face for the first time after initially communicating by phone.
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steinrokkan posted:Sure this sucks, but has there ever been more disgustingly bougie, narcissistic chain of reasoning than "somebody did X so I made a loving zine about it and posted to the world about it, also I'm selling the zine" Reminds me of that glitter bomb package hoax from a few years back.
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If someone steals my parcel I'm going to poo poo in their mouth.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:If someone steals my parcel I'm going to poo poo in their mouth. Where do you live?
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Chair In A Basket posted:Where do you live? At home.
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Splicer posted:The best part is the same horse had done the exact same thing to another rider earlier in the day, so it was an absolutely predictable outcome. Why would the organizers not just give the riders a new horse, if their current horse literally refuses to do anything??? That feels like penalizing a diver because the board fell off the mount, preventing them from diving.
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Schubalts posted:Why would the organizers not just give the riders a new horse, if their current horse literally refuses to do anything??? That feels like penalizing a diver because the board fell off the mount, preventing them from diving. Maybe they wanted to penalize the rider(s).
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Schubalts posted:Why would the organizers not just give the riders a new horse, if their current horse literally refuses to do anything??? That feels like penalizing a diver because the board fell off the mount, preventing them from diving. Nobody likes modern pentathletes, even pentathlon officials want to see them suffer
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Splicer posted:The best part is the same horse had done the exact same thing to another rider earlier in the day, so it was an absolutely predictable outcome. I feel like shooting the horse is appropriate. Edit: Regardless of circumstances
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:It's probably a thing if little Silas takes a Chinese language class. They do it in the highschool language (french/spanish) classes where i am, picking a new "native" name to go by in class. I guess it helps the kids get into the flow of the right pronunciation and stuff instead of having to code-switch between speaking the language they're trying to learn and then going back to english to say their name with a totally different set of sounds. I found a copy of this in a charity shop years ago, which is pretty amusing: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/495159.Write_Your_Name_in_Kanji Phonetic transcriptions of various English first names, with a choice of direct-translations-of-meanings, eulogistic meanings and utterly bonkers attention-getting meanings. I got to tell my boss he should call himself small-boy-vomiting-apricots if we ever had any Japanese clients.
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Yeah, we did the "get assigned a foreign language name" in both my middle and upper school Spanish classes. BirdOfPlay posted:Also, her coach was ejected for punching the horse in the face. 
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Mega Comrade posted:Westerners can be pretty lazy when it comes to foreign sounding names but lets not pretend Chinese doesn't have lots of sounds and structure that is pretty hard to pronounce for most westerners. Yeah but Chinese in particular is a tonal language, so it's not just the sound you say but how you say it. Using the wrong tone can radically alter the meaning. Imagine your name was Asswipe (pronounced oz-WEE-pay, natch) but everyone pronounced it like "rear end wipe". Heck, my wife, who is from Europe, balked at naming our daughter "Klara" because most Americans would pronounce it like "Claire-uh"
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BirdOfPlay posted:Also, her coach was ejected for punching the horse in the face.  
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Zero_Grade posted:Yeah, we did the "get assigned a foreign language name" in both my middle and upper school Spanish classes.
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Mega Comrade posted:My friend Craig has a small fit every time anyone uses the American 'Creg' pronunciation. It can be handy as he's partially deaf so it can be hard to get his attention sometimes. Call him 'Creg' and you will have his attention. Aggro-Craig
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GWBBQ posted:They started this in middle school (6th grade, age 11-12) and somehow "Ian" turned into "Salvador" rather than "Juan." I was also constantly paired with my best friend for 2-person projects and with other friends for bigger ones, and all of them were either live skits or video projects. I once ran and jumped around a classroom dressed as Bumblebee Man from The Simpsons while a friend in a labcoat chased me around with a big antique-looking pesticide sprayer, and we would do outtake rolls or just spoof a popular movie after the main feature when it was a video project. My mom went off on us once over the Blair Witch spoof because we "shouldn't be making evil and Satanic things," referring to the stickman figures.
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