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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6051 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 1 of 12 09 November 2010 at 9:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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What is everyone's opinion here about adapting, recreating, or creating a new name when you deal with members of your target language? Do you use your same name?
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| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5232 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 2 of 12 09 November 2010 at 10:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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The Chinese have already made transliterations of most English names, so the work was already done for me. Many of my friends who do not have English names have chosen instead to fashion a name for themselves. At times, I feel like I'm missing out a bit, but hey, that's life.
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| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5352 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 3 of 12 09 November 2010 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've got a chinese name given to me by a friend in Hong Kong. It makes me feel more like I am one of them than if I had kept my real name, which they wouldn't be able to pronounce anyway. It makes intruducing myself a lot easier :) Though I haven't been able to use it much since I've never been to China. :/
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 4 of 12 09 November 2010 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I wouldn't change it (and haven't in the languages I actively use).
It strikes me as too "junior-high school French class". And I think the globe has gotten small enough that we've all been exposed to foreign-sounding proper names. That said, I do have certain nicknames given to me by friends and coworkers that I readily respond to. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6051 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 5 of 12 09 November 2010 at 6:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
But don't you have a choice to just choose a new Chinese name, like DaShan for example? Why miss out? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Scarlet.Fzl Bilingual Triglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 5157 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Russian*, Tatar*, English Studies: German | Message 6 of 12 09 November 2010 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't adopt my name, especially when communicate offline. My name is easy enough to pronounce. But in internet sometimes I use my nickname - Scarlett (it's a translation of my real name - Алсу).
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| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5232 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 7 of 12 10 November 2010 at 5:08am | IP Logged | |||||
You're right, I do have that choice. And it is really hard to pass up on a name like Big Mountain :-) It's just that all my documents and whatnot are already using my transliterated name, so it would just feel like a nickname if anything. A little too superfluous; like coming up with a new name in the states. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5960 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 8 of 12 10 November 2010 at 5:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have an English and a Chinese name. These names were given to me by my parents at birth (I am ethnic Chinese). My husband and all our kids have separate English and Chinese names as does my cousin in HongKong. So I am accustomed to having a different name in my target language. The funny thing is that my Chinese name in my parents' tongue is very different than my English one, but not so in Mandarin. Anyhow, I do respond to both names.
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