Bizarre English names - Part 2

[Confuzius]

New student, his name is Lego (yes, like legos, the building blocks)

another: Shabu

another: Moon-face (yes, since she says her face is 'like the moon')

[Robotea]

Waiters name tag was, Iron
7/11 name tag was Doreamon.

[tsukinodeynatsu]

7/11 name tag was Doreamon.

I have a friend called Doraemon. We named him that because he loved the show. He hated the name, but it ended up becoming his de facto English name.

A lot of the odd English names adults have here come from nicknames that stuck.

[finley]

Names of friends ( they selected their names themselves):
Bizarre ? No.
Creative ? Don't think too much

- Rambo (1.55 cm tall)
- Shumacher ( drives a scooter)
- Cash (...gambled, mahjong)
- Winnie (mmmm... No comment)
- SIR Seriously ?

These are bloody brilliant. Sheer genius. I'm just looking forward to the day when Taiwanese people discover the concept of middle names. Spin might then become Spin Cycle or Spin Doctor, Shabu will be able to call himself Shabu Shabu, and perhaps Winnie will be a hyphenated Pooh. And yea, there will be much rejoicing in the land, and foreigners will take the piss mercilessly.

I justify this childish behaviour with the thought that (apparently) my real name sounds a bit daft to Chinese ears, and people no doubt have a good giggle about it after I've left the room.

[smithsgj]

What's wrong with Winnie? Is it because a male or what.

Bit old-fashioned, but a fairly normal name for a female in the UK.

[John Yu]

Bmw (one of my 7-11 cashiers today)

[Steviebike]

[Walis]

A few unusual local English names I've encountered over the years:

Mask
Spectrum
Book
Hawk
Feeling
Pork
Pranton
Meow
Dink

There must be loads more that I can't think of right now. I've also found quite a lot of people here like to choose less common English names like Winston, Caleb, and Clarence, as well as European or Latin names, like Giovanni, Gino, Heidi, and so on. It's one of the little fun things about living in Taiwan, along with funny menu translations and signs and instructions.

[finley]

Middle-aged lady with 'Dragon' on her name-tag yesterday.

I like 'Pork'. Is it supposed to be a noun or a verb, I wonder?

[bismarck]

Middle-aged lady with 'Dragon' on her name-tag yesterday.

I like 'Pork'. Is it supposed to be a noun or a verb, I wonder?

Well, I had a new female student in my weekend class called Bedroll. There was another one in the same class calling herself manrol.