I don't quite know how to put this in a family-friendly blog, but a Vietnamese singer has just won the Intervision music contest in Russia. Congratulations, and all that sort of thing.
Unfortunately, the name of the winner might as well have been made for Internet jokesters. Read it for yourself.
Let's just say that the poultry farm jokes being made on some European forums are . . . ah . . . awkward.
Peter
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I had a Vietnamese coworker whose name was even more inappropriate in English. His family name which comes first was/is Long. His personal name was the last three letters of his family name preceded by a d.
(If you don't want to publish, at least you can have a laugh.)
I grew up with a Vietnamese kid named Hung Duong. Yes, we laughed... He rolled with it just fine too. But, he told me at one point that it was actually pronounced like "Hong Yoong" despite how it looked to us English-speakers.
My company employs several Vietnamese folks, so in an effort to learn to pronounce their names properly I went looking for a video on how to do so. That name "Phuc" is one of those demonstrated in this one that I found. I've got the link queued up to that moment, and the lady says it means "happiness." --
https://youtu.be/F60YSypuwrs?si=HCrBKWIXqih4R6i2&t=869
Had a student down at Auburn with the moniker "Phuc N. Ho" (middle name Nguyen) on his records. We agreed to simply address him as Mister Ho.
Long Duk Dong was in Sixteen Candles.
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