Culture-building notes: More on names Freelance Traveller (04 Sep 2015 01:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Greg Chalik (04 Sep 2015 01:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Richard Aiken (04 Sep 2015 01:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Freelance Traveller (04 Sep 2015 12:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Bruce Johnson (04 Sep 2015 15:44 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Colin paddock (08 Sep 2015 05:10 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Grimmund (08 Sep 2015 15:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Brett Kruger (05 Sep 2015 09:58 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Craig Berry (08 Sep 2015 20:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Brett Kruger (09 Sep 2015 10:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Bruce Johnson (09 Sep 2015 15:26 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Craig Berry (09 Sep 2015 19:37 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Greg Chalik (05 Sep 2015 10:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Bruce Johnson (05 Sep 2015 18:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Jeffrey Schwartz (08 Sep 2015 15:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Bruce Johnson (08 Sep 2015 16:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Jeffrey Schwartz (08 Sep 2015 16:40 UTC)
Re: [TML] Culture-building notes: More on names Freelance Traveller (09 Sep 2015 19:49 UTC)

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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