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Help[Opinions] Re: names granted by other-language-speakers
in reply to a message by Ohad Yigal
I had a Chinese name I can’t share unfortunately because it resembles my surname (which is a matronymic and contains a female given name that’s common in various languages).
The grandma in my Japanese host family called me Fuca-chan, smushing together the first and last syllable of my name in a Japanese pronunciation.
“Someone once said that it wasn’t so hard to do right; what was hard was to know what was right to do.”
William X. Kienzle
The grandma in my Japanese host family called me Fuca-chan, smushing together the first and last syllable of my name in a Japanese pronunciation.
“Someone once said that it wasn’t so hard to do right; what was hard was to know what was right to do.”
William X. Kienzle
