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PwarYuex said:
Wen is your first name?
first character. you know how it is with chinese. to your second question, nope.
 
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Frigid said:
first character. you know how it is with chinese. to your second question, nope.
Yeh. You missed my edit.

I've never heard "Wen" before. Is it Canton or Mando?

Cool. I don't understand why Chinese people feel they have to get an English name and vice versa.
 

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PwarYuex said:
I've never heard "Wen" before. Is it Canton or Mando?

Cool. I don't understand why Chinese people feel they have to get an English name and vice versa.
it's thecharacter. the pronunciation is mando, but i'm a canto person...

globalisation i guess. haha.. coz some names are hard to pronounce.
 
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Frigid said:
it's thecharacter. the pronunciation is mando, but i'm a canto person...

globalisation i guess. haha.. coz some names are hard to pronounce.
Ah, in Japanese, it's pronounced bun or mon.

My last name is better :p
 

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Frigid said:
yeah, if you wanna amortise your car loan over 50 bloody years... :rolleyes:

using the loan amortisation formula (QMA dear):

n = 50
A = 300K
r = 0.06

R = A x [ r / 1 - (1 + r)^-n ] = approx 19K

edit: btw, if you plug in R = 18K, A = 300K, r = 0.06, and attempt to solve for n, you actually find that R never decreases to 18K because as n approaches positive infinity, (1 + r)^-n approaches but never reaches 0 (horizontal asymptote at y = 0).

and i still suck at math :(
what is it with you and 'dear'
 

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PwarYuex said:
Heh, good to know.

I've made it into two people's sigs now! THE POWER! *charges up*



Yeah, that's what I was trying to say, although you said it so much better :p

Also, I didn't know the four weeks/two weeks thing.

From memory, the highest level of people not working is Roseville or somewhere similar, which is the Florida of Sydney (retirement).
That's only because Roseville has heaps of old people.
 

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velox said:
Rob, so are you saying you dont see the need for Anglo people to have a Chinese name :p ?
my friends gave me one...but I can remember what it was...Chinese names are much more interesting too many people are called Melissa...its so boring maybe I should start using my greek middle name :p
 
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Frigid said:
and that is?
It's Swedish; Persson. The Swedish version of "Peterson", son of Peter (obviously).

I say it "pers-sohn", but my family says "person" (like you would the english word), although both are incorrect. It's supposed to be said more along the lines of as you would say "passion".

velox said:
Rob, so are you saying you dont see the need for Anglo people to have a Chinese name :p ?
Yes I am. They should struggle with ours like we do with theirs!

melsc said:
my friends gave me one...but I can remember what it was...Chinese names are much more interesting too many people are called Melissa...its so boring maybe I should start using my greek middle name :p
Chosing a Chinese name should be as complex and difficult as it is for the parents.
 

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haha, sorry, but that almost sounds like a legal fiction ;)

Mr Joe Bloggs, Mr John Doe. :)
 
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Frigid said:
haha, sorry, but that almost sounds like a legal fiction ;)

Mr Joe Bloggs, Mr John Doe. :)
Hahah, yep.

It's worse for my family, like my mum on the phone; "Hi, I'm Mrs Person... no... that's my real name... Ugh, get your manager"
 
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velox said:
lol, that would be funny.
Yeah, hence my alternate pronounciation of it.

It's not as bad as to start using an alternate name (I sould use peterson); one of my family friend's surname is "Ferniehough". They always call themselves Smith when booking a resteraunt.
 

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Yeh same i use alternate name when i talk to customers on the phone. I cant be bothered answering "Whats your name sorry?" "Oooh what country is it from?" etc
 

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melsc said:
My legal teacher always used "Joe Bloggs" then got annoyed when the class kept asking him why he used it all the time...so its a law school thing???
legal equivalent of John Smith :)
 

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Frigid said:
legal equivalent of John Smith :)
now it makes sense...

He was like:
"So the witness says "I saw joe bloggs in a green car"
"then you have to say, I put it to you that joe bloggs was in a red car"
I'd say why do you always use that name.,..I guess its the result of a legal education
 

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