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Now I think you're being deliberately naive. If your parents named you Porntip, it absolutely would be your problem, because unless you are Thai and live in Thailand or among exclusively Thai-speaking people and never encounter the English language, everyone you met aside from the youngest or most sheltered child would hear Porntip and immediately hear the English word and know what it means. And while most adults would be too polite to let on to your face that they knew, kids your own age would have no such filters and they would never let up. You could explain and justify till you were blue in the head, but it would not stop them. And you could insist and insist that it wouldn't bother you because You Know The Real Meaning, but you'd be kidding yourself.
And even the adults who don't laugh at you or tease you would pity you and wonder at the judgment of your parents.

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