Chinese people's English names.

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• • Danmairen
    November 17, 2009
    427 posts
  • What's the weirdest/funniest name you've come across in China?

    I'd have to go with Spock. A foreign teacher taught him to say "Live long and prosper". The poor kid actually looks a bit like Leonard Nimoy AND has a unibrow.

• • freewayxx
    November 17, 2009
    12 posts
  • I am currently teaching Spock. It is pretty uncanny how much he actually resembles the character from Star Trek. And he still says, "Live long and prosper" while giving Spock's trademarked hand gesture. Luckily, as far as I know, he has yet to master the dreaded "Vulcan death grip."

• • fogdear
    November 17, 2009
    99 posts
  • i knew of a girl named Cocoa and her friend was named Puff. I also knew a girl named Banana.

• • piers
    November 17, 2009
    147 posts
  • I had a student called Bacon and another called Murphy-Wing.

• • Naomi.O
    November 17, 2009
    7 posts
  • i know a guy named naomi.
    oops that's me.

• • trailblazer18
    November 17, 2009
    6 posts
  • I had a Mountaineer! Funny name funny name.

• • Quester
    November 17, 2009
    52 posts
  • My wife worked with 3 girls in an office who were named, respectively, "Ice", "Lemon" and "Tea". They were unaware that any connection could be made between their names.

• • tanfei
    November 18, 2009
    25 posts
  • I once talked to a 7 year-old girl named "Walter-Billy".

• • Greginchina
    November 18, 2009
    239 posts
  • when I was teaching in Qingdao in 1998 I had Jesus and Satan sitting next to eachother. I also had another class with coffee, milk and sugar all sitting in a row.

• • Bernie
    November 18, 2009
    100 posts
  • I once had a student whose name was Jun who, typically, asked me to give her a European name - when I immediately suggested June, her expresion

• • Bernie
    November 18, 2009
    100 posts
  • Sorry ... pressed the wrong key!

    I once had a student whose name was Jun who, typically, asked me to give her a European name - when I immediately suggested June, her expression was blank and following further explanation, she smiled ... but I'm sure that she's still wondering about it.

    Her fellow student named himself Viper, I let him keep it. ;-)

    It's an interesting subject.

• • DanTheMan
    November 18, 2009
    235 posts
  • How about we discuss some of the equally moronic Chinese "names" that some of the foreigners around here tote.

• The Old Theatre Inn
• Lost Garden Guesthouse & Restaurant
• Chicago Coffee
• Kunming Mei's Mandarin School
• As You Like
• Keats School
• Moondog
• GoKunming
• YMCA Club 1933
• Slice of Heaven
• Kingsway Tented Resorts
• Bakery 88
• Camel Bar
• The Mask
• Kunming College of Eastern Language and Culture
• My Favor Restaurant
• Chapter One
• Wonders Of Yunnan Travel
• O'Reilly's Irish Pub
• Salvador's Coffee House
• Wangtianshu Restaurant & Deli
• Tenwest Mandarin School
• Cacao Mexican Restaurant
• Flying Tigers Restaurant
• Kunming Yu-Cong Enterprise Management Company
• Huiying Dental Clinic