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fraggle · Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

Had a discussion about names of students with a couple friends last night and had some very special ones come up.
Thought it might be interesting to compare and contrast.
Beats whinging and bitching about Taiwan all the time (naming no names)
I'll kick off with
Echo
Dinosaur
and
Fish
Confused

Union Jack · Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Taiwan

Well what about these Spock and YoYo.

You sometimes have to laugh and hope by the time that they get to University that they might have seen some sense.

Have fun
Union Jack

SanChong · Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 335

Ha, great idea for a thread...

I've had some great ones:

Happy
Champion
Jill (a girl)
Batman
Swallows (for a girl... I can only imagine the grief she would get if she moved to a Western country)

Chefintaipei · Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 30

At last! A posting with a touch of humour! Here goes....

Yolk (girl)
Mighty (boy)
Bang (boy)
Wood (boy)
Queen (girl - good job it's not a boy!)
Yama (boy)
Zola (girl)

Poor kids - if only they knew......

Taylor · Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 384 Location: Texas/Taiwan

Dear Readers,

I'm glad to add a few:

Apple, Giordano, Wind, Sky, Minimum, Boss, Nehc (that's Chen in reverse), and Toyota.

What's wrong with Jill for a girl? That was my first girlfriend's name.

In defense of special names, I have one student to whom I gave the English name 'Happy' several years ago. Now, she's a bubbly eighth-grader, so I think the name may have helped her!!! (By the way, her Chinese name translates directly as 'seashell' ....go figure.)

Keep on posting!

Taylor
Kaohsiung

SanChong · Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 335

I mean Jill for a boy... sorry!

I've been inspired to share a few more:

Eden (a boy)
Co Co (girl)
Johnson (a boy of course!)
Sky
Dammi
Hanson (boy)
Cheney (I didn't let him point his pen at other students, so he wouldn't hurt them... hahaha)

sbettinson · Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Posts: 81 Location: Taichung

I have some beauties.

Golf,
Pipi,
Wiwi,
Pentium,
Polo,
Baddy,
Coco,
Zed,

If I think hard enough I could come up with some more. I particularly liked Pentium though.

jamesallan · Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 36

Pull ( boy ) I did suggest it should be Paul
Cloudy ( Guy in 20's )
Dancer ( Father of student )
and finally

Satanley ( clearly meant to be Stanley but the parents insisted on the original )

wood · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 202

four-eye · Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 18

these r some of my kids' names:
sunshine( a boy)
joycie( a boy), interesting spelling
bobo(a girl)
january(a boy)
nicky(a girl)
LOLLIPOP(a boy), why dont his parents just call him PENCIL?

Rolling Eyes

Chefintaipei · Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 30

I also had a student named Valentine (boy)!!

Jgplk1 · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 16

Lineaker and Wing bvoth boys, hoping the Lineaker was a reference to Gary!

dvasas · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 138 Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Thunder

Kirch (I think it's a German name)

Hans

Sonny

Russian names

trukesehammer · Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 168 Location: The Vatican

Lucifer (I call him Luz)

(I call him Zeus)

Just about every contemporary basketball star you can mention, and of course, the ever-present

Angle