Re: who can help me for my english name?


Nick Wagg wrote:
"kevin_homecare" <k@xxx> wrote in message news:e29dmp$7kn$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The main reason it that many of the HK ppl are employed by the branch
office
of european company ,and these ppl who can speak both English and Chinese
often make mistakes on our Chinese name and they often write the wrong
email
address too.

Be proud of your Chinese name. Pressuring you to change your name
to something with a more English sound is just a form of cultural
imperialism,
which I thought was far more common to Americans. I hope that
Europeans are more enlightened.

That is why I am ask to choose a very simple word "Kevin" as my English
name

Are you sure that Kevin is a good choice?
It would be low down my personal list of names to choose.

However, I cannot make sure whether the word "Von" can be used as my
family
name.

I know the pronunciation of "Von" is the same as my real family name in
chinese, but it seems that "von" is one of the word based on Germany
words.

Now I need to write the mails to European customers directly and I don't
think it is a good idea to use a name with sensitivity in politics or
culture among the european countries.

The second world war ended over sixty years ago. No-one under the
age of retirement gives any thought to a German-sounding name.

ha,very good!
But stick with your Chinese name. Europeans should have got used
to foreign names by now. Both my forename and surname have been
current in England for over a thousand years but people still get them
wrong from time to time.
We should stick with my original name .:)

.

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