09-19-2016, 09:58 PM
(09-19-2016, 08:56 PM)ShanghaiKiwi Wrote:(09-18-2016, 11:34 AM)Shannon Wrote: My name doesn't work in nickname or shortened versions. It comes off as being disrespectful, and I don't take kindly to that.
Yeah my name 'Brad' sounds (to the Chinese ear) a lot like 'bread' so I get a lot of people calling me 面包 (mianbao) and I'm just like, no, it wasn't funny the first 10,000 times I heard it, and nothing has changed since then. Show some respect. Totally out of tolerance for that one. So I'm with Shannon on this one, don't mess with the name.
I hear you guys.
My name has been the brunt of many jokes till I finally found a way to stop it (basically, don't pay attention to people who do it anymore
). But for much of high school, the only attention I'd get was to bring up the old inside joke about my name. Not cool at all.
