O.k., I have a funny story. It’s about a cat kinda but, it’s sorta topical to today’s discussion…
I worked with this blonde haired blue eyed girl who’s boyfriend gifted her with a little black kitten on Halloween one year after she’d been complaining she wanted a cat. She named it Spooky, you know, after Halloween and all. This was back when she lived in Indiana.
Well, She lives in Harlem now. Her cat climbed out on the fire escape through the open window. So picture the whitest of all the white chicks on a fire escape in Harlem yelling “SPOOK, SPOOK, GET BACK HERE SPOOK !!”
She said at the time it never even dawned on her that this could be problematic. She was just so panicked about getting her cat back!
“ok Thanks chicken
but what I think is interesting is if the parents were so concerned with their kids “fitting” in with “anglicized names” they would have been better off naming their kids names’ like Jennifer/Michael/Laura rather than Alice/Harold/June
Posted by: gemini10 at October 28, 2009 1:24 PM”
G10, I was talking about UK chinese who DID give their kids normal names. I don’t why the american chinese would give their kids stuffy names. I can only hypothesise that it was to make them sound higher class than they were?
All righty then…I’m going back in to add the paper towel. I thought the wax paper was for the flower, not the book. I don’t even care about that book…it’s an old dictionary. What good is a dictionary that doesn’t include “asshat” or “mutant asset bubble” in it? I mean really!
I grew up with this kid who’s name is Ying Fei,he said his American name was “Eric.” Is that a close translation?
O.k., I have a funny story. It’s about a cat kinda but, it’s sorta topical to today’s discussion…
I worked with this blonde haired blue eyed girl who’s boyfriend gifted her with a little black kitten on Halloween one year after she’d been complaining she wanted a cat. She named it Spooky, you know, after Halloween and all. This was back when she lived in Indiana.
Well, She lives in Harlem now. Her cat climbed out on the fire escape through the open window. So picture the whitest of all the white chicks on a fire escape in Harlem yelling “SPOOK, SPOOK, GET BACK HERE SPOOK !!”
She said at the time it never even dawned on her that this could be problematic. She was just so panicked about getting her cat back!
“ok Thanks chicken
but what I think is interesting is if the parents were so concerned with their kids “fitting” in with “anglicized names” they would have been better off naming their kids names’ like Jennifer/Michael/Laura rather than Alice/Harold/June
Posted by: gemini10 at October 28, 2009 1:24 PM”
G10, I was talking about UK chinese who DID give their kids normal names. I don’t why the american chinese would give their kids stuffy names. I can only hypothesise that it was to make them sound higher class than they were?
LOL CGar!
Well, dibs, Linda is better than Nancy…
Posted by: Arkady at October 28, 2009 2:25 PM
I see we have our own beoch here.
All righty then…I’m going back in to add the paper towel. I thought the wax paper was for the flower, not the book. I don’t even care about that book…it’s an old dictionary. What good is a dictionary that doesn’t include “asshat” or “mutant asset bubble” in it? I mean really!
“Yes, you can go do this now, but be gentle!”
TWSS / TWHS
It sounds pretty Italian to me. Could only be worse if it were “Tony.”
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 28, 2009 2:11 PM
DIBS, you’ll agree when I tell you the other much much more italian-sounding choices that I passed over.
Well, dibs, Linda is better than Nancy…