Tuesday, April 15, 2008

What is in a name...

Rob works for a South Korean company. Language can be an issue. What kills me, and I mean has me rolling on the floor laughing, is the name changing. The Koreans often "Americanize" their names to make it easier on their American employees.

(all last names are fictional)

How about the guy who loves Indiana Jones movies-Harrison Ch'oe Kyu-pyeong

Or the Star Wars fan - Han Solo Yi Yong-su

Or the boss who didn't alter his first name for years and then suddenly sent out a company wide memo announcing that from that day forward he was to be referred to as Phil...turns out he was a golf fan.

You gotta think these guys have a great sense of humor.

Just a side note, there is a Chinese foreign exchange student at the FlyingMonkey's school . Her name is....Deja Woo

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes this is funny, but on the bright side at least they didn't choose something like Woo FlungDoo....The small things in life really crack me up!!!!!!!!!!!have a great day, hope all are doing good!!!!!!!!!!!later-m

Trixie Twatwaffle said...

one of my jr. high teachers went to school (I saw the yearbook) with a guy named...

Wayne Dwop

Go ahead...say it.

tell me if you don't laugh.

For the Love... said...

Soooooospecial-we are well...and the small things crack us up cause we are sooooooooooooospecial...

Margaret-Ok, I totally laughed...too funny!