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PtotheB

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Q: Which English names do Chinese find beautiful/strange?

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kchur

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Judging from the literally hundreds of students of mine who have taken it as an English name, apparently they find "Kaka" to be extremely beautiful, like a summer day.

GuilinRaf:

I have a few students with that name. I cannot bring myself to call them by that name so eitehr I use their Chinese names or I shorten it to "Mr. Ka".

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Jíliú.hé

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the name guy means chicken gai chicken as i am told it can go both ways

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GuilinRaf

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The nickname for "Benjamin" (Ben). Apparently ben(4) means fool or stupid.

philbravery:

thats alright my sons name translates to Dumb Fish (Ben Yu)

and this is why he will drink

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GuilinRaf:

Lol!

I will buy him his second drink (assuming that Dad will buy him the first!)!

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bin.H

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just like "tom"and "lucy",that's use abusely cause nearly all the english books in china have tom and lucy in ..haha

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biodamon

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Sailor, in cantonese, it means dead.

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