Quarter-Circle + Paaaunch!
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Mar 2006
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Sep 9, 2006, 09:59 AM
Local time: Sep 10, 2006, 01:59 AM
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Just a little spinoff of the topic of this thread...
A common thing that used to happen here in Australia was the changing/officiating of immigrants' names.
I don't know why, but the one of the reasons that I could conclude was that at times, migrants' names look overwhelming on paper. My father's name was changed simply because his Aussie workmates found it too hard and too bothersome to try to pronouce his name. Apparently when Jackie Chan came over to Australia (I think to find his parents), his Aussie workmates gave the "Jackie" name to him as it was easier to say than his Chinese name.
Furthermore, one of my Chinese friends has a surname of Gordon, as apparently it helped make his grandparents' life easier on Hong Kong (when the British were still under control of the area).
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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chaofan