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Why I Don't Have an English Name To Lance: It is true that you can usually tell a person's sex by looking at his/her English name. But there are also unisex English names. e.g. Kerry can be a man or woman. I knew two female Kerry before I met my boss. When I applied for the job I though he was a female! and what about Alex and Andy and Sandy etc? I don't need to give all the examples do I? And what about Galic/Welsh/Gaelic originated names? Not all English speakers can pronounce them, can they? People always got my husband's name wrong because it's the Welsh spelling of Sean/Shaun. But since it's Welsh, even the general British do not know how to pronounce it or tell its sex. He's had many letters addressing him "Miss" "Mrs" or "Ms". I don't think your "good point" is that good at all. |
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Why I Don't Have an English Name To sd: I know westerners who have Chinese names in China, only the ones who speak very good Chinese though! And, their Chinese names were worked around the English pronunciation, e.g. my boss Mike's Chinese name is "Meng Kang"--taking the M and K but it sound like a proper Chinese name. The other guy Simon Jones is called Zhong Xi Men, again sth derived from their original names. Fair enough if the Chinese do the same, but what we are seeing is people name themselves whatever they like, and even change their English names like change outfits. |
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Why I Don't Have an English Name Agree. I dont have english name 'coz I'm not born with that name. Lots of my friends have English names picked by themselves, without knowing the meaning of it. Some keep changing their English names as they keep on finding more "sophisticated" ones. Why do I never see an Indian or middle-eastern or South American or Thai or Japanese people using English names? The only Asians with English names are commonly Hongkongnese or Malay-Chinese, who legally have both Chinese and English names on their passports. One of my friend is called Alex Kee Kon Koh (Chinese-Malay) because that's his proper name. I understand that some Chinese names are hard to pronounce, but what about Thai names? Thai names are long and difficult to pronounce, but I never know any Thai who choose an English name for themselves. If your Chinese name is REALLY REALLY hard to pronounce, then maybe adopt an alternative name that's similar to your original (one of my Thai friend shortened his first name to Pooh, although sometimes it sounds like Poo, does it matter?) I know another Chinese guy whose name is Xi. His western friends call him "Zee" as they don't know how to pronounce Xi. He prefers it because Xi sounds like She in English. But he never uses English names. Another example, a Chinese lady I know is called Dan which is a common Chinese female's name, but in English it's a guy's name. Anyway, these guys never tried to "make things easier" with a made-up English name. I used to have an English name in school (to make English classes "easier"). One of my English friend said to me: your name is chosen specially by your parents, it's you and your culture. I won't use your English name because it's not you. I agreed with her, and since 17 I never used my English name ever, despite the fact I had to spell out my name thousands of times to people, and correct their pronounciations thousands of times...We should be proud to teach the westerners a bit of Chinese... |
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Only watched it to complete the story. No surprises for me at all, everything as I imagined. Guess everyone knew about Lucas's story well enough. The acting was better than 2, pity for the actors--it was the wrong film to be in, they get blamed whatever they do--it simply isn't anywhere near the original. |