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draigoch · Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 6

I note that this website knows what the name I wrote means - despite the fact that I was merely writing it as a name. A diminutive of Richard.....

BTW - Fanny is even funnier for us Brits. For Americans it merely means 'bottom', for Brits it is what a lady has at the front of her pelvis that a man doesn't.

Luckily, I never met too many. But, puerile man that I am, I would have sniggered.

However, I always made sure I gave my kids decent names if they requested them.

draigoch · Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 6

And, yes, Randy is funny. Especially if the bearer of the name IS American.

"Hi, I'm Randy !"
"No thanks, you're not my type...."

Super Frank · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 365

You didn't meet many (or is that much) fanny in China? mate you must have been looking the wrong way (puerile snigger snigger)

Super Frank · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 365

Also what about Brian, who always spells his name Brain? I laugh out loud just typing that...

grwit · Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 329 Location: Dagobah

I agree that many students don't take their English names seriously. But just have some fun with it. I gave my students name lists that I printed from the internet but explained that they did not have to choose a name from the list if they did not want to. I have also had some fun with my chinese name 'Haung Fei Hong'. He is a chinese historical folk hero. He lived in the qing dynasty and was known as the best kung fu expert of his time. All my chinese friends get a good laugh at my chinese name. Its the same as a foreigner moving to america and calling themselves Billy The Kid. So let the students have some fun with their English names because, most probably, the only time they use them is in your classrooms.

Some amusing names of my students:
Boys: Daisy, Lucifer, Candy, Answer
Girls: Roger, Yo Yo, Hero, Queenie, Amazon

I also have Summer Spring Winter and Autumn who are all girls and all in the same class. There is also Rain and Sunshine in that class too. hehehe

jester · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 111

"Roger" is not a funny girl name. There is a girl like that here on these forums. Mind you, she seems to be a tad old to be a girl - more like a granny.

vikdk · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 1676

With kindy kids we like to get into the - what's your English name/what's your Chinese name -game.
To make it more interesting I gave myself an imaginative Chinese name - da twodor (god knows what the right pinyin is) which means - big potato - which kinda suites my hairstyle Laughing

Anways a bit of humour thrown into a lesson like this certainly seems to help the learning process - and I certainly don't have any problem in getting the kids to ask what my Chinese name is!!!

grwit · Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 329 Location: Dagobah

Hi Vikdk
the correct pinyin for your name is da tuo do - i think. My pinyin isn't the greatest either.

Mysterious Mark · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 121

大土豆

Da Tudou

(da4 tu3dou4)

"Big Earth Bean"

snaremymind · Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 2

I have an 'Anus'.

lf_aristotle69 · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 546 Location: HangZhou, China

Leon Purvis · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 11:04 am Post subject:

I had a girl who was "advised" to use the name C*ck.

She is smart but naive. When I reminded her that a cock is a male chicken, she countered that it was appropriate because China is SHAPED like a cock.

Ahem.

--But YOU'RE not a male chicken, are you?

Now she goes by her Chinese name.

I have told all they they may sign in using their student numbers and their Chinese names, but i won't know their names if they continue to change seating. Alternately, their spectacularly good work will facilitate my knowing their names.

My opinion about this western name thing is that it is insulting to the student. My English majors dropped their western names as soon as I told them that I did not require them to adopt a western name. After all, if they can learn English, i can learn to pronounce their names. The problem is that i have so many students that it doesn't matter what name they go by, unless they do something to distinguish themselves from the pack, i will know only their faces and their general abilities.

Bingo.

Some stepped forward to show their abilities. They're more than a name and a number.

Nyrthak · Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 16 Location: ASIA

I teach kindergarten children. I have a Lion in my class. There is also a Wei Wei (pronunced Wee Wee). The children's arrival at the Kindergarten is announced every morning over the PA. Wei Wei's arrival goes something like this: "Can I have your attention please, Can I have your attention please. Wei Wei is coming. Wei Wei is coming. Teachers get ready". Sent me into fits of laughter when I first arrived. Laughing

Last month all the children were learning "heads, shoulders, knees and toes" for sports day. I had to explain to the teacher leading the song why it should not be introduced by saying "Now we are going to touch our body parts". Shocked

dajiang · Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 663 Location: Guilin!

We had a nice little slip up at the school I worked at some years ago.(though it has nothing with names, sorry)

During the summer school there was a poster saying:

"Jack will supervise the pupils in pubic areas."

Cool

As for names, well, we could start a produce shop with all the fruit and veggies we had, in any kind of weather.

Dajiang

cubit · Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 117 Location: Changchun

I recently had gone into to an observation of one of our foreign teachers and head the following names read off the roster in order..

...kevin...
...helen...
...mike...
...hunt...

given that the sounds for k and g are exactly the same except for that one is vocalized and the other is not, I had a hard time not laughing. The teacher swears it was not intentional.