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Moon-faced Assassin of Joy@nome.bsky.social |
BUT, you also get new names when changing cultures. Despite tripping over it, "Andaru-sensei" wasn't the hardest name for my Japanese students to learn, but I couldn't have them call me "Nome," since the closest they could get was "Nomu," which means "is going to drink." So "Andaru-sensei" it was.
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Moon-faced Assassin of Joy
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Meanwhile, a roommate in college was Chinese, and she did the standard thing of picking a western name (Wendy), because it was better than having folks who can't hear tone distinction butcher "Oiwa". Likewise a Punjabi neighbor was "A-B," because white folks stumbled over "Ahbinav."
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