Re: Foreign Names (Was: Re: Spousal names)
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 27, 2000, 22:09 |
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 05:52:37PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
[snip]
> Well, Korean names are "Chinese" names, so I'm somehow not surprised. At
> least with my sister there's only two of us! And Koreans call each other
> by the two-syllable given names (or some longer diminutive thereof), so
Hehe, "longer diminutive". ;-)
> it's not a problem, but when you bring in Americans who think we have
> "first" and "middle" names (and who's to blame them)....
[snip]
Heh, reminds me of salespeople, professors who don't know me well enough
personally, and others of that ilk, who address me as "Hwei", which I
think is singularly ugly and distasteful... especially seeing that that's
often a *feminine* name when used in isolation! Either call me by my
*complete* name (i.e., two syllables not one!) or just call me by my last
name Teoh (this latter is what everybody in Canada calls me BTW...)
T