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By: Raoul

Raoul — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:35:30 +0000

Best names I’ve met are Missile, Tiger, Freestyle (that one is really cool), Parrot, Jacket and John Denver.

Just found this website: http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/gender-guesser.html It tells you if a Chinese name is male or female.

Plenty of people tell me I have a good Chinese name, but I’ve always wondered if they were just being polite. At least now I know it is a guy’s name!

By: Kent Kedl

Kent Kedl — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:18:21 +0000

Ha! I suppose she thought that being called “Easy” was too obvious?? For all the humor and frustrations that we find in our Chinese friends and colleagues choosing English names, I bet they find MUCH more in the names we Lao-wai choose for ourselves!

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:31:24 +0000

While teaching English in Lanzhou in 2002, I had a female student who called herself “Loose”. I swear I did a double take when she told me her name in class. I tried to ask, “Don’t you mean ‘Lucy’?” She insisted on the name, but I think I insisted on at least giving her another name in my grade book.

By: Kent Kedl

Kent Kedl — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:42:32 +0000

Excellent! I love “Sephiroth”. I consider myself at least Biblically literate and even I need to look that one up. The numbers are good too … we were doing a deal for a client a couple of years ago where the CEO of the Chinese company insisted on being called “Mr. Seven”. I felt I was in a James Bond re-run. Thankfully, the deal fell through … I doubt I could have negotiated with Mr. Seven with a straight face.

By: Jim Petersen

Jim Petersen — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:21:25 +0000

I failed to convince both Hercules and Caesar to opt for a name more ordinary.

By: Sonny

Sonny — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:11:59 +0000

As an English teacher in China, I could publish a Top Ten list involving names you should never hear from a Chinese student. I understand directly translated given names like Icy (冰) and Rocky (石). I can also understand a given name that sounds like a Chinese one, such as Lina or Linda for 丽娜. But what do you do when you meet a starry-eyed young girl with the name “Twelve”, or the strangely cryptic passer-by who introduces herself as “Collishell”, or the down-right strange male names of “God” and “Sephiroth” (kudos to the Bible and “Final Fantasy”)? Oh, the joy of laughing mentally…

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Automation_AGV (SPMS) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:16:46 +0000

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By: jimtompkins (Jim Tompkins)

jimtompkins (Jim Tompkins) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:08:46 +0000

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