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What's in a name?

已有 2119 次阅读 2011-2-5 08:28 |个人分类:From the U.S.|系统分类:海外观察| Chinese, name, nickname

I have struggled with my name ever since I came to the U.S. Why? Most non-Chinese cannot pronounce it, and machine on the other end of the telephone thought I was fooling around when I answered my last name is "YU."

Actually, my name is not bad as some others. One came to my mind is "Rui." It's the last name of a colleague. I wonder whether or not she quit research because no one could cite her papers correctly during a presentation. Now, I "met" a student whose first name is "Rui." If I were her,or him, I would find myself a nice nickname before going abroad.



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