Do you have a name in another language?

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Posted: 11/21/2014 10:56:10 PM EDT

Most of the Chinese in grad school take on "American names" when they come over here. For alot of American Indians, they are given a name later in life based on their accomplishments/experiences. Because pretty much everyone I knew in grad school was chinese, and they were very eager to study with the only "white" guy in their classes, they got to know me fairly quickly and gave me a "Chinese name." Along their tradition of giving themselves their own american name, I gave myself a Chinese name.

The name they gave me: "Choi Xióng." The 1st name I spelled phonetically, because it's slang and I cant find the actually spelling/translation. It means "chugging bear." Apparently the engineering Chinese students had never seen someone pound a whole beer at once, plus I'm bigger than a couple of them combined.

So does anyone else have a name in another language?

Posted: 11/21/2014 10:56:50 PM EDT

[#1]

antonio

Posted: 11/21/2014 10:57:19 PM EDT

[#2]

X-Rated.

Posted: 11/21/2014 10:57:50 PM EDT

[#3]

Puto?

Posted: 11/21/2014 10:58:24 PM EDT

[#4]

I'm known in Spanish as pinchy bendayho. Or something.

Posted: 11/21/2014 10:58:33 PM EDT

[#5]

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Hey what a coincidence!

Posted: 11/21/2014 10:58:50 PM EDT

[#6]

When I took Spanish in HS. Geofredo.

Posted: 11/21/2014 10:59:33 PM EDT

[#7]

Alfredo Garcia.

Posted: 11/21/2014 10:59:53 PM EDT

[#8]

Dances with Nerds.

Posted: 11/21/2014 10:59:57 PM EDT

[#9]

NVM. Arabic font shows in preview, but not actual post. :(

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:00:54 PM EDT

[#10]

Carlos Danger

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:01:22 PM EDT

[#11]

El Watusi

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:02:25 PM EDT

[#12]

Dirk Diggler

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:04:39 PM EDT

[#13]

Tonya Harding.

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:06:22 PM EDT

[#14]

My name in Spanish and English are the same spelling but different pronunciation. I now I'm fucked when I hear my full name in Spanish.

First, Middle, Father's Last Name, Mother's Last Name. If my parents or grandparents said that... I was getting whopped!

Also I was called Mango while in Basic Training and Popeye during the Police Academy.

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:06:30 PM EDT

[#15]

Whitey

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:08:07 PM EDT

[#16]

Gringo

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:09:28 PM EDT

[#17]

My first Father n Law called me shit head. He liked me though.

My second one called me " you effing cradle robbing son of a b%$#ch I know you did her and I'm gonna f^^#^^@ing kill you." After we got married he liked me more and just called me "you effing son of a b%$#ch," but he smiled occasionally.

Not really another language but at least another name.

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:13:45 PM EDT

[#18]

I used to be a pretty avid gambler. The Seminole Indians in FL and the Cherokee's here in NC both honored me the same name, "Leaves with no Chips."

The Passamaquoddy tribe in Maine named me Tonto Goldstein.

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:14:56 PM EDT

[#19]

Patron.

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:15:22 PM EDT

[#20]

I don't have the translation in front of me but I was given the name "useful one" in the language of the lenape tribe of native americans.

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:18:10 PM EDT

[#21]

Reynard in my French class

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:18:38 PM EDT

[#22]

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I am having the same problem with this website. When I attempt to input Chinese characters the results end up as ???????. This was not always the case.

My Chinese name is Meng Sheng. In the PI I am called Joe.

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:28:40 PM EDT

[#23]

My name Jose Jimenez

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:36:55 PM EDT

[#24]

Totanka

Posted: 11/21/2014 11:38:53 PM EDT

[#25]

To the Slapaho Tribe, I'm known as El Jefe.

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:06:09 AM EDT

[#26]

Rod B Long

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:14:21 AM EDT

[#27]

Muadib

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:17:18 AM EDT

[#28]

My name included my MMN up until college

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:19:14 AM EDT

[#29]

Mutti

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:22:29 AM EDT

[#30]

My name dates from the 11th-12th century English contraction of "Stoney Meadow".

I'm going with Stoney Meadow.

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:23:15 AM EDT

[#31]

El Relajado. They tell me it means "the relaxed one".

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:24:46 AM EDT

[#32]

I have a sign language name.

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:26:04 AM EDT

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El Relajado. They tell me it means "the relaxed one".

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That is true

It could refer to you in general...or to your morals

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:32:26 AM EDT

[#34]

Herefordshire.

That is where my name came from and I still do not know the colour of the boat house.

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:42:33 AM EDT

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I've got a buddy who's name is Peter B Long...

Had a guy on my crew way back in the 80's named William Holder. Yes, he went by 'Dick'.

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:53:16 AM EDT

[#36]

Sure, My family name (From the Alsace region) works out to something along

the lines of "Fuckers who maintain the Church"..lol

Posted: 11/22/2014 12:58:01 AM EDT

[#37]

Big chief long arrow

Posted: 11/22/2014 1:00:09 AM EDT

[#38]

El Guapo

Posted: 11/22/2014 1:02:39 AM EDT

[#39]

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You a,pretty boy?

Posted: 11/22/2014 1:10:32 AM EDT

[#40]

Muchacho blanco enojado

Posted: 11/22/2014 1:12:47 AM EDT

[#41]

My name is Gaelic.

Posted: 11/22/2014 1:15:16 AM EDT

[#42]

one hung low

Posted: 11/22/2014 1:22:03 AM EDT

[#43]

My name is Hebraic.

Posted: 11/22/2014 1:23:26 AM EDT

[#44]

Bismo Funyuns.

Posted: 11/22/2014 1:37:28 AM EDT

[#45]

edit: characters didn't show

Posted: 11/22/2014 1:41:23 AM EDT

[#46]

D'Shawndre

Posted: 11/22/2014 1:42:12 AM EDT

[#47]

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de la Cruz

Spanish for Tim.

Posted: 11/22/2014 1:59:36 AM EDT

[#48]

Yes. My Hebrew Name is Moshe (you would know it as Moses)

Posted: 11/22/2014 2:17:31 AM EDT

[#49]

My name is Matthew, the Mexicans at work call me Mateo.

Posted: 11/22/2014 2:20:05 AM EDT

[#50]

Cracka and Gringo.

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