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Why I Don't Have an English Name I only recently stumbled onto this blog. I found this posting to be rather interesting and while it has been quite a while since the original entry was made I thought I'd add my thoughts. There is a large Chinese population of my university, and I have noticed many people using english names. I don't think it's really all that bad, but I do not like using them. I want to use a person's correct name, and would prefer to be told I am saying a name incorrectly until I learn it properly, rather than use an english name to help me say it more easily. Of course, very few of these people are going to want to put up with me saying their names incorrectly for that length of time. There seems to be a conflict between what makes me more comfortable, and what makes the person whose name I am butchering comfortable (luckly as I meet more people I find my pronounciation has gotten a little better and it doesn't take too long to pick names up anymore). |