Choosing a name is a serious business. As more and more new ethnic Chinese migrants settle in the US, they obviously need to be cautious when selecting an English name. Some Chinese people try to stand out from the crowd by choosing names that sound like their Chinese names. For example, some Chinese women and girls whose name is Yiting choose to be called “Eating” in English.
The World Journal Web site reports that because some Chinese people are not very familiar with other countries’ cultures, they often make bloopers when choosing an English name. For instance, women whose Chinese names contain the syllable qian may like to pick Cherry as an English name, but in English the word cherry is not just a kind of fruit, but may also refer to a virgin’s hymen. Some names sound funny when they are paired with certain surnames. For example a Chinese person named Jolly Wang got laughed at whenever he told people his name. Only later did he find out that in Southern slang “wang” means what children call a “willy,” while “jolly” is another word for “happy,” so together they sound like “happy willy.”
There is another story about three ethnic Chinese women who called themselves after their favorite fashion brands — Chanel, Gucci and Tiffany. That is a joke that Americans’ could not have made up themselves. Some Chinese people take it a step further by naming themselves after their favorite thing — Money. When Americans hear a name like that, they might not know whether to laugh or cry.
(Liberty Times, translated by Julian Clegg)
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取名字是一件慎重的事，隨著美國華人新移民的增加，取英文名字當然也要慎重！有些華人為了讓名字與眾不同，就用自己的中文名字取諧音，像有一位華人女孩叫「依婷」，英文名字就取了「Eating」。
世界新聞網報導，有些華人因為還不是很了解外國文化，取英文名字時就常鬧笑話。例如中文名字裡有「倩」的女孩，喜歡將英文名字取「Cherry」，但事實上，Cherry除了有櫻桃的意思外，還有處女膜的意思。而有的名字和姓氏搭配起來就會鬧笑話，例如一名華人Jolly Wang，每次報上名字就會被笑，後來才知道wang在南方俚語中是小弟弟的意思，而jolly則有開心之意，加在一起就變成「開心的小弟弟」。
還有三個華人女孩用自己喜歡的品牌取名，分別叫「Chanel」、「Gucci」與「Tiffany」，這是美國人無法編出的笑話，更有甚者，居然也有華人用他最喜歡的Money取名，實在令美國人哭笑不得。
（自由時報）
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