Paul Montgomery ([info]paradox0220) wrote,
@ 2009-04-10 09:54:00
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I lost a little more faith in humanity today
Nugget sent me:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/brown-asian-names/

How did I know there would be an (R) next to her name as I read that? I'm not sure if I'm done counting how many ways this is wrong yet...

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[info]paradox0220
2009-04-10 07:11 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, words in Chinese are all 1 syllable (to my knowledge) and aside from the inflection which you can just ignore (cause they are used to it) for names they are probably easier to say that "American" names.

Let's see some real names from Elaine's friends and my co-workers:
Jing
Ping
Rong
Ching
Dong

Yep... those are pronounced exactly like you'd think. No problem there! Weird, they all end in "ng" now that I think about it. Hrm...

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[info]goulo
2009-04-14 06:20 am UTC (link)
I'm guessing she's thinking of longer and less obvious Vietnamese names like Nguyen and Indian names like Rangarajan, and just doesn't know the difference between Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, etc, because it's all just Asian to her.

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