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  1. #16
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    Enter the...

    Dragon!

    Some of the chaps and chappesses in my aiki school nicknamed me 'Dragon'. Maybe it's because I had a reputation for being fierce...

    Many of them called me Rubber Sensei... and no, no connection to condoms!

    When I got a tenugui (hachimaki for kendo, lit. 'towel' - see not all Japanese is romantic! ) from my sensei he also chose a master calligrapher and swordsman's calligraphy for 'Dragon' as he said it suited me!

    Other people have called me all kinds of things...!

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    my first teacher called me 'bear' about a year into training. he also said I should have probably taken up karate instead of kung fu since I didn't seem to be getting it.

    about 9 or 10 years later my second teacher also called me 'bear' with out ever knowing that my first teacher had done the same thing. I had never, ever told anyone about the first. A couple of years later he added 'thunder' to it.

    so, I don't know if it counts as both these guys are white but I couldn't let Seven be the only 'thunder' something
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  3. #18
    Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing
    OK, just kidding. Liu Mang is the literal translation of 'rogue'
    I have a Chinese name, thanks Gene. It won't get my ass kicked in Chinatown will it?
    I quit after getting my first black belt because the school I was a part of was in the process of lowering their standards A painfully honest KC Elbows

    The crap that many schools do is not the crap I was taught or train in or teach.

    Dam nit... it made sense when it was running through my head.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rogue
    I have a Chinese name, thanks Gene. It won't get my ass kicked in Chinatown will it?

    well i don't know about a 'kicking' but with a name like rogue, you might be in for a little rough trade down there.
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    My Sifu has never called me anything chinese. My Sifu has called me "Ross Perot" or "What's your name I forget"or "Mr Chan" (from some skits we did at a New Year's party where I played an evil doer named "Mr. Chan"). Aside from that the only other nickname I think I ever got was "Lone Lion Dancer McQuaid" from one of my classmates, and occasionaly since some us at the school watch 'Hajime No Ippo', one guy will call me "Sempai". The only other-language names I heard were from when I went to Cambodia and they were just generic, like "agiang saw" which just meant white american, or just "saw-saw" white white, and an occasional "barang" which means frenchman, I hated that one.

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    rogue in Chinatown

    No, I'm saving those names for MasterKiller. I still owe him and a Chinatown ass-whupping would only bring the tally to 146...

    There's an awful lot of dragon names here, aren't there?
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    Ah, what the heck. Gimme a nickname, Gene.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing
    No, I'm saving those names for MasterKiller. I still owe him and a Chinatown ass-whupping would only bring the tally to 146...
    Do you believe you are my match?

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    Gwai Loh is deragatory....

    Lo Faan is mildly passable

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    乃文 - Nai Man (Nai Wen)

    Which is a reference to an expression, 乃文乃武, nai man nai mo (nai wen nai wu).

    譚乃文
    Last edited by -N-; 12-13-2005 at 03:02 PM.

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    Ss Mk

    SevenStar, I dub you Chut Sing, which is just SevenStar in Cantonese. See? That was painless. Come on the rest of you. You all need new names. Who's gonna be brave and take the name Fang Guo Pi?

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    so say my western name does actually have a meaning. can i get it turned into a chinese name with the same meaning? or do i need to adopt a new motif for my name?
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    Good question, PangQuan

    You can translate names a variety of ways. Typically, the Chinese like to make up some absurd phonetic. The classic example is Mark, which always becomes Ma Ke.

    If your name has an equivalent, it can be translated literally. For an example here, I had a friend named Jade and that was really easy to translate into Chinese. You got to be a little careful with this one because Chinese is so contextual, so a translated name can come out really funny. Of course, this can happen with a phonetic too. The classic example here was when Coca Cola was translated phonetically, it came out to 'bite the wax tadpole'. I can't think of a literal translation example off hand.

    Additionally, and most common, it's a nickname or some chosen name. Chosen by who? By me. OK, ok, chosen by some authority, like a master, a monk, a feng shui expert, a clan elder, something like that. Many times in China, you know someone by their surname and nickname alone. It's just like in kung fu movies - people are called Fat Tiger, or Uncle Ho, or Teacher Lee, etc. To use a given name is often thought of as quite intimate.
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  14. #29
    Quote Originally Posted by SevenStar
    Ah, what the heck. Gimme a nickname, Gene.
    How do you say, "He who lacks street cred"?
    I quit after getting my first black belt because the school I was a part of was in the process of lowering their standards A painfully honest KC Elbows

    The crap that many schools do is not the crap I was taught or train in or teach.

    Dam nit... it made sense when it was running through my head.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing
    You can translate names a variety of ways. Typically, the Chinese like to make up some absurd phonetic. The classic example is Mark, which always becomes Ma Ke.
    That's odd since Mark is already a Chinese name as in Bow Sim Mark. JUst curious as to what the Mark in her name means? Also Mark means warlike, how would you say that in Chinese? Oh, by the way my names Mark.

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