Unfortunate Names

[Geo2008]

Talk about being "name challenged"

Check out the unfortunate Olympian and Professor, ouch

http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/7/224137.shtml

http://www.americanangst.com/chewsf.pdf

 

[JB]

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It seems silly and childish to me to make fun of words and names from a foreign language that sound like, but have no meaning like, English words.

 

[QC]

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Come on JB, can't you see it as just a little bit funny? No one thinks these people are a problem, nor do they think their language is inferior, or that their names literally mean what they sound to an English speaking ear . . . hence it's just coincidentally a wee bit humurous, but then I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express in Phuket Thailand last night . . .

 

[tashasdaddy]

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sounds like the jokes my 10 year old neighbor tells.

 

[Geo2008]

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It seems silly and childish to me to make fun of words and names from a foreign language that sound like, but have no meaning like, English words.

Childish yes, I am guilty.....but it is kinda funny

I refuse to grow up....

 

[Geo2008]

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sounds like the jokes my 10 year old neighbor tells.

10 would be too advanced, my wife says more like 5

 

[Limited-Time]

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It seems silly and childish to me to make fun of words and names from a foreign language that sound like, but have no meaning like, English words.

Call me silly and childish.............it made me smile........:redface::redface::redface:

 

[CATransplant]

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Those sound like perfectly normal Japanese and Chinese names, respectively. Wonder what some of our names mean in Japanese or Chinese.

 

[Limited-Time]

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sounds like the jokes my 10 year old neighbor tells.

Ahhhhh the innocence of youth.................when funny things are allowed to be laughed at..................

 

[kenmyfam]

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I wonder if they know "Hugh Jaynus" ???

 

[kenmyfam]

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Or "Norma Stits"

 

[puddle jumper]

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That make you wonder what english names in other languages look like to them. But i think if i was one of them and moved to a English country i would be changing my name.

 

[KeltonKrew]

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hence it's just coincidentally a wee bit humurous, but then I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express in Phuket Thailand

I've stayed there and other places with the same name, just different countries!

 

[aspeck]

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No joke, we had the Di ck family that lived in our area. The last two children were named Anita and Harry (and I think it was a cousin that was named Candy). And yes, I know them ... in school many years ago Harry (who was about 5 years younger) pulled a knife on me. I decked him and never had a problem with any of them after.

 

[JB]

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Cruelty is never funny, though it may seem so to the perp.

 

[RPJS]

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Your 100% right JB, cruelty to any other living thing is total wrong.

With that in mind all of the iboats memebers who have flown out to China just to corner this young man in the playground and jeer at him till he cries should stop it

 

[achris]

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I'm not laughing.. but here's one some of the more childish members may get a giggle from... She was the Russian Olympic figure skating champion.... Irena Slutskaya.... In Russia it's just a name.... But for an English speaker, it's unfortunate...

Chris........