be careful when you choose your name

zAiTsEv · #1 06-04-2004 **be careful when you choose your name**

Anne Chang (in Mandarin) - dirty
Anne Chin (in Mandarin) - keep quiet
Faye Chen (in cantonese) - dusty
Carl Cheng (in Hokkien) - buttock
Monica Cheng (in Hokkien) - touching your buttocks
Michael Tan (in Cantonese) - selling eggs
Lucy Liaw (in Hokkien) - you are dead Judy Soo (in Malay) - lost in Gamble
Jane Tan (in Mandarin) - fried egg
Suzie Leow (in Hokkien) - Lost till death
Henry Tan (in Hokkien) - let you wait
Henry Mah (in Mandarin) - hate your mum
Corrine Tai (in Hokkien) - poor fellow
Paul Chan (in cantonese) - bankrupt
Nelson Tan (in Mandarin) - bird laying eggs
Jason Tan (in Mandarin) - thief laying eggs
Leslie Tong (in Mandarin) - rubbish bin
Nelson Chong (in Mandarin) - worms infested bird
Carmen Tng (in Hokkien) - Leg hair long
Connie Mah (in Cantonese) - call your mum
Francis Yip (in Cantonese) - sweet potato leaf
Danny See (in Hokkien) - squeeze you to death
Rosie Teng (in Hokkien) - screw and nail
Kenneth Tsai (in Hokkien) - like shit
Maisy Koh (in hokkien) - never die before

hehe..

*Thirdshifter* · #2 06-04-2004

May i add a few,

Kong kiat Kuat
Lan Chap Kuat
Tong Sam Pah
Ah peng San
Lom Pat Tiang

few names i think would be really not cool to have.

**luke** · #3 06-04-2004

I think I've come across people have some of the names listed above ..

ElansarGelmir · #4 06-04-2004

Well, my mom's friend's called Robert Lee, and everyone in her office calls her Robbery. Even i called him Unc Robbery (when i was small lar)

topdog · #5 06-04-2004

koh teck teh (teh=short in hokkien)

monica cheng has always been my favorite.

__earth · #6 06-04-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElansarGelmir

Well, my mom's friend's called Robert Lee, and everyone in her office calls her Robbery. Even i called him Unc Robbery (when i was small lar)

are you sure it was robbery, or was it robbelly?

jagganatha · #7 06-04-2004

Very interesting..

tuinkle · #8 06-04-2004

Indeed... those aren't the very best of names to have in the Malaysian culture (most Americans etc would be a blur)
But I really do hope there will be less mockery towards such poor souls... sometimes it's their parents (in my case, my grandma) who bestowed such names upon their child, although always in good faith.
So when we are born, we are more or less attached with that name. Don't really have a choice.

What's in a name?
Shakespeare said: A rose by any other name still smells as sweet.

^^
May

naturesimple · #9 06-04-2004

just dun put english names in front of surname except unavoidable

chiunlin · #10 06-04-2004

I actually have a friend with the name
Eugene Ee Eu Gene
Redundant, I would say.

Thirdshifter Super Moderator Forum Moderator Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 2,610	#2 06-04-2004 May i add a few, Kong kiat Kuat Lan Chap Kuat Tong Sam Pah Ah peng San Lom Pat Tiang few names i think would be really not cool to have.

luke KittyLover Administrator Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 1,878	#3 06-04-2004 I think I've come across people have some of the names listed above .. __________________

ElansarGelmir Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,072	#4 06-04-2004 Well, my mom's friend's called Robert Lee, and everyone in her office calls her Robbery. Even i called him Unc Robbery (when i was small lar)

topdog Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 1,205	#5 06-04-2004 koh teck teh (teh=short in hokkien) monica cheng has always been my favorite.

jagganatha Less Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 80	#7 06-04-2004 Very interesting..

naturesimple Less Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 99	#9 06-04-2004 just dun put english names in front of surname except unavoidable

chiunlin Slightly Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 705	#10 06-04-2004 I actually have a friend with the name Eugene Ee Eu Gene Redundant, I would say.