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[quote=daed]@rene'- it's french right, pronounced rene'(ren-ay)? Does anybody pronounce it re-neee?

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Well, when I say it, it's more of re-nay, but, yeah. & I've never heard anyone pronounce it re-neee.

Yeah... my Chinese show LOL. I thought maybe they could be right. I mean, they do have English people working there,... how come they didn't tell them it's wrong?

'Cause we Chinese have given up trying to teach the English people how to say our names right. 😀

It's true. -_- My parents were smart enough to keep my Chinese name as a middle name when we moved to America. Or else, people would mess up on saying it, especially since it's Cantonese.

Imagine trying to say Ngar Mei. -__- How do you say "NG"? Ask someone Cantonese, and they might be able to tell you.

Btw. My English name is Margaret. Another name where it's constantly misspelled.
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My name is the same. My chinese name is my middle name. So my name is
Patrick Jun Fai Wong. I was born in the US so that's what they did.

"Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

<-- Made in Hong Kong, baby~ xD

It's actually really weird. In Hong Kong, my first name is Ngar Mei, and my middle name is Margaret. In America, my first name is Margaret and my middle name is Ngar Mei.

Talk about confusion.

Me too! My middle name is my Chinese name, and that is WRONG. My middle name shouldn't be a Chinese name... I don't even have a middle name. My Chinese name IS my Chinese name, not a middle name!!!!!

and I also have NG in mine LOL. Nobody knows how to read NG unless they're HK-born people, who've lived there for quite a long time. Not American/Canadaian-born

Isn't it weird? My friends ask me what my Chinese name is, and they know it starts with an N. And when I tell them, they're like... what? I thought it started with an N!

... Ng = O-ish sound. Cantonese can be weird at times.

Ngor ho bat hei foon ngor gor meng.. sometimes.

It's hard to write. I think, there's a total of 30 strokes in my name combined.

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Ngor ho bat hei foon ngor gor meng.. sometimes.

LOL I had trouble seeing what "bat" was... 6 years ago, I didn't know "ngor" was "I" WTH. I thought it was "ore". But now, I've become professional in fob language. SAD

"Mei" is easy to write, isn't it? Is it "beauty" mei?

also!! My Cantonese name sounds interesting in mandarin <3 😀 Doesn't sound as manly as the Cantonese version.

Eva is my name. Just pronounce it like you see it. It's not Ava. Apparently people call me like my name is spelt Ava. I also have a Chinese name. It's pronounced E Ha. My parents named me Eva cuz of the similarity.
At school, mostly band members and yes I'm a band geek, they call me by my last name.
My cousin gave me a Japanese nickname just for fun. She has too much fun sometimes, but that's why I love her! 😛 The nickname is Ayashi.

What's your Chinese name?? I'd write my Chinese name, but I don't know if mu can read Chinese. My mei isn't the beauty mei. It's the mei for fern/rose. Ngar is elegance.

My name sounds prettier in Mandarin too. <3

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Eva is my name. Just pronounce it like you see it. It's not Ava. Apparently people call me like my name is spelt Ava.

They do! I've always thought it was "EEEva", but in American Idol (LOL) it was read "eh-va" many times.

making_mooz LOL sorry.. I didn't even share my English name. But I'll say that the NG of my name is "nga". Like "nah". So I don't know what "ngar" is. I don't know the "mei" for rose... It DOES look hard!! I don't know those words!

erm... Do you know how to write teeth? Ngar is like that, but with an extra thing next to it.

Mei... The flower head, then two people, then mountain, then child, then another thing... It's a lovely (coughs) words. SO easy to write and make pretty.

LOL "then a child"? I could write it up to the child part. But I've always like flower heads.

My "nga" also has the teeth thing. And another thing next to it. I think it's "yeen" I don't know...

It should be pretty obvious.

No, i'm not actually named dan, but it is in my name.

Aidan

Hofstadter's Law states that:

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.

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LOL "then a child"? I could write it up to the child part. But I've always like flower heads.

My "nga" also has the teeth thing. And another thing next to it. I think it's "yeen" I don't know...

雅 - is it this one? if you can read it...

that's mine!!!! steals back

How come you pronounce it "ngar"? Mine is spelt "nga" only. looks at ID yup, NGA

OMG. It's mine! Don't steal it. I was the one who looked it up anyways.

I can't find the second character of my name... It's too obscure. -___-;;

My parents were bad at naming me. I'm not elegant, and I'm not pretty like a rose.

My Chinese name means "Tranquil Flower" Ok, a certain type of flower. As for me, tranquil maybe, flower - no!