Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names
Bruce Johnson 04 Sep 2015 15:44 UTC
> On Sep 3, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Freelance Traveller <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
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> It has been previously noted that Chinese immigrants often take Western
> "use names" as their legal 'given' names.
I can attest that this is increasingly common with Koreans as well; students, at least. It’s lead to one person here in the College having two system accounts, and thought that she HAD to have two, because she was a student employee in one context and a student in another. That was !fun to untangle…
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Bruce Johnson
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