Originally posted by: Howard
<---Originally posted by: Schrodinger
You just cheat and call them by their North American name
Most Chinese I've met seem to have one. Usually its something like Arthur, Anthony, Frank, Ronald, Howard, Charles.
Anyway, Asian jokes don't seem to be taboo at all. How unfortunate.
I wasn't making a joke about it. Most I've run into at school have another name they go by. As much as I'd like to call someone by their real name, I'd rather not butcher it and make things worse.
Funny you say that..
my gf called me just now and said she is making some and is going to bring it to work for me!
my legal first name is Xi (same pronunciation as "she") and it really confuses people
i should get it changed
i should get it changed
quakefiend420
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You sound like a wrestling coach I used to know. He used to call asians eggrolls or slants. Guess both of you never learned proper ettitquette.
Anyways never was a big fan of Chinese or Japanese. You guys do know that they are pretty much Heiroglyphics, right? Indo-European languages are far more interesting (French, Latin, Sanskrit, Hindi, Persian, Greek etc.)
No, I was referring to the other posts. I have no problem with yours (though I haven't seen many Arthurs around).Originally posted by: Schrodinger
Originally posted by: Howard
<---Originally posted by: Schrodinger
You just cheat and call them by their North American name
Most Chinese I've met seem to have one. Usually its something like Arthur, Anthony, Frank, Ronald, Howard, Charles.
Anyway, Asian jokes don't seem to be taboo at all. How unfortunate.
I wasn't making a joke about it. Most I've run into at school have another name they go by. As much as I'd like to call someone by their real name, I'd rather not butcher it and make things worse.
I don't take language advice from those who can't spell etiquette.
I will admit that the Chinese/Japanese writing is a bit too impractical and difficult to learn.
Joemonkey
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why don't/didn't asians just spell it phonetically correct? If your name is Huang and it is pronounced "Wong" why isn't your last name Wong then?
Who decided to take the little pictographs and turn it into a difficult to pronounce word with our alphabet? If it was the Asians themselves when they moved to America, then don't get mad when we can't pronounce it. If someone in America said "OK here is how you spell that name" then they should have been fired for spelling it that way.
Who decided to take the little pictographs and turn it into a difficult to pronounce word with our alphabet? If it was the Asians themselves when they moved to America, then don't get mad when we can't pronounce it. If someone in America said "OK here is how you spell that name" then they should have been fired for spelling it that way.
your argument does not make any sense. First of all, it is pronounced Huang in mandarin but Wong in cantonese. it is the same character.
There are many sounds that exist in asian languages that does not exist in english. instead of adding new symbols to pronounce these sounds (ala apostrophes in french, tildes in spanish, Umlauts in German), asians try to mimic the sound with the alphabet given to them as closely as they can. Its not your alphabet, other languages use it too.
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