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Not only can people never pronounce my last name, they can't ever spell it right!
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I'm consitently stupid- Japher
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Everyone knows how to spell my name. Dan, both are extremely common I went to school with both nguyens (when) and nuguyens (new when).Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Google says you're full of ****, but, well... Whatever you say.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Google doesn't say how many results. Where are you getting your information?Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Results 1 - 10 of about 2,710 for nuguyen. (0.10 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 38,900,000 for nguyen. (0.12 seconds)I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Funny how I get different results from the same search engine. What are your filter settings?Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Originally posted by Oerdin View Post
Hmmm... in the upper right corner:
Results 1 - 10 of about 42,100,000 for Nguyen. (0.10 seconds)But interestingly enough, when you type in "nuguyen" it asks if you meant "nguyen"Results 1 - 10 of about 2,960 for nuguyen. (0.24 seconds)
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I'd like to take this chance to point out that the British family name "Featherstone-Haigh" is actually pronounced "Fanshaw".
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I did. You've got to be the last person in the western world to learn how to use Google. And the great Google demonstrates how full of **** you are.Originally posted by Oerdin View PostI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I don't see why this woman should apologize. Yes, the wording is not the most polite, but the idea is clear: in the absence of a national ID card, people of Asian descent can freely use two names (the real one and the one for stupid round-eye barbarians), causing some confusion.
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Are people honestly arguing that because some civil servant at Ellis Island butchered immigrants' names back in 1896 that makes it OK in 2009 to suggest that people of Asian decent should change their names to make things easier on English speakers?The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.Comment
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No, I suggested that because the manglings are so common, he shouldn't get so angry about it or read anything much into it.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Still think it doesn't really follow.
Suggesting that a person pick a name and stick to it is appropriate.
She just reveals her moronitude when using "your citizens" and saying it would make it easier for "Americans" when referring to a group of American citizens. I can see where phraseology like that might set someone's Spidey-sense tingling.The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.Comment
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My parents gave me a Chinese name and an English one. They also spelled the transliteration of the Chinese name in an odd way, so that it would be easier for western passport guards to read and pronounce.
I think they made a concession. I don't particularly mind the concession. Practically speaking, it made things easier, most likely. But, as a matter of principal, it was still their own choice to make and something that nobody else could gainsay. (Of course now that I'm a major, I could change it, but I don't particularly want to.)
But for a lawmaker to come in and say "You're going to have to change your name because we can't pronounce your culture's language" is pretty insensitive, even in nations like Thailand and Indonesia, which have historically erased Chinese surnames and instead substituted local names.
Weirdass anecdote: A Thai friend of mine said her family name was originally "He" (as in "river" in Chinese), but the Thai gov't forced them to change it to "Uawithya", pronounced "Oowa-witty-ah". Apparently "He" was just too hard to pronounce.
When you're looking at a nation like America, which has historically been on the leading edge of personal freedoms and individual rights, I'm really not sure such a law could be defended once challenged.
It's not clear from context exactly how Betty Brown meant it. I think there is still just enough ambiguity to suggest that she just honestly made a musing remark and did not intend any broad backhand to any ethnic group. A sort of "I'm not particularly familiar with this issue - how does this untutored suggestion strike you?" question.
Even so, a pretty disingenuous statement. Hopefully she'll understand why it's such a blunder. The Dems also could risk trivializing the issue by blowing it up out of proportion.
Last edited by Alinestra Covelia; April 10, 2009, 15:27."lol internet" ~ AAHZComment
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