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questionable name, Fuki Sushi
I don't know, bridget96, I think that when some folks move to an English speaking country for the first time they just never hook-in to the "nuances." I worked a telemarketing job for five years, and a casino marketing job for another five, dealing with hundreds of names on the computer each day...some of the things you encounter are mind-boggling!
For instance, at the telemarketing gig they automatically flash the call up on a computer screen pre-dialed for you, and you just say the name. So I found myself saying, "Hello, may I please speak to Phuc Q?" And I froze, thinking, "what did I just say, I can't say that, can I?" But that was their name, a new Thai-American citizen, I guess. Tough name to go through the military with! "What's your name soldier!?" Phuc Q, sir!
AND THEN...(I remember these 'cause I actually compiled a list the names were so strange) there was a woman whose first name was Sukhdeep! It was Indian I think, and the surname made it even more humurous.
And I was, like, "could somebody please clue this poor woman in that THAT name is NOT going to work over here!" 'Course it might work wonders at a job interview! ""So, what's you name?" 'Sukhdeep.' "Well, uh...sure. And, by the way, you're hired!" I hear the sirens of the Gutter Police wailing, but I've been dying to share some of these names for years!!! Maybe I'll dig out the list so I can post "Sukhdeep's" full name...and some of the others I've forgotten. I wish I was making this stuff up, folks...but, no, I am not!
Oh, and the all-time winner I found for the worse English-speaking name ever given has to be
"Lowman Bowman"! Yikes!!! Why would anybody do that to their child??????
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