| Karina, you bring up the best point--which I forgot to mention in my previous post--and that is the ability to distinguish sexes by the name. For the life of me, I can't tell the sex of foreign names and most Americans/Westerns couldn't tell whether WangJianShuo is male or female. Equally, I could tell Nirmalya was male or female, but I tried to guess it was female. I guessed wrong. That is another extremely important reason why someone should use an English name when dealing with native English speakers, so that they can recognize the sex of the person when seeing the name.
If I were to write: Dear Ms. Wang Jian Shuo. I don't think WJS would be too happy. If he referred to himself as Jason Wang, I'd know immediatley this person is a male and I will refer to him as a Mr Jason Wang. |
Why I Don't Have an English Name