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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2009, 11:34:01 AM »
There is an "H.W. Wong Engineering Building" on our campus. Sadly, there is no banner above the entrance reading "You have come to the Wong place!"  ::(:
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #21 on: April 10, 2009, 12:55:11 PM »
Check for a plaque inside.  It's an engineering campus, there's no fucking way they passed up a lame pun like that.
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #22 on: April 10, 2009, 03:41:17 PM »
Are you assuming that was merely just some crass pun?   :THATWAY:
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2009, 05:33:37 PM »
Heh. We had a loveable Mr. Wang who taught math at our high school too (GO CLICHE!). His accent was so thick, there was a "Wang-English" dictionary that was passed around for years. The funniest part was that it was actually tremendously useful.
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #24 on: April 10, 2009, 05:48:44 PM »
We had a Chinese lecturer for computer science, which can be an inscrutable topic even with a native speaker. Her classes usually involved two hundred teenagers staring confusedly at a whiteboard while she described a topic in mediocre English annotated on a whiteboard with mathematical syntax I don't think she ever explained.

I repeated the year, so I had her for two years running. I moved to another university the following year, only to find that she had moved to the same university.
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #25 on: April 11, 2009, 12:54:27 AM »
IT'S ALL CHING CHONG WING WONG
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #26 on: April 11, 2009, 03:28:24 AM »
Quote from: Iron_Mongrel on April 10, 2009, 05:33:37 PM
Heh. We had a loveable Mr. Wang who taught math at our high school too (GO CLICHE!). His accent was so thick, there was a "Wang-English" dictionary that was passed around for years. The funniest part was that it was actually tremendously useful.

...is it possible for you to get one of these.
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #27 on: April 11, 2009, 03:45:51 AM »
Quote from: Kazz on April 10, 2009, 04:04:55 AM
Quote from: Third Strongest Brentai on April 09, 2009, 11:15:06 PM
if I ever visited Japan I'd use a Japanese name, because there are like five things they can't pronounce right in "Brent".

I'd love to hear a native Japanese try to say "Alexander Barclay McDougall." oh shit, now Demogorgon's gonna post a picture of my house

Probably something like Arekusandaa Barukurey Makudūgaru (アレクサンダーバークレーマクドゥーガル)*.

But that's just my guess.  I only know the Alexander part from investigating it myself and asking one of the Japanese kids in one of my high school classes.  McDougall was easy enough to dig up, but I'm totally guessing about Barclay.

*Thank you internet translation devices.  :itsmagic:
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #28 on: April 11, 2009, 04:31:45 AM »
Quote from: Misha on April 11, 2009, 03:28:24 AM
Quote from: Iron_Mongrel on April 10, 2009, 05:33:37 PM
Heh. We had a loveable Mr. Wang who taught math at our high school too (GO CLICHE!). His accent was so thick, there was a "Wang-English" dictionary that was passed around for years. The funniest part was that it was actually tremendously useful.

...is it possible for you to get one of these.

It's not really useful with another human being. Trust me on this. Mr. Wang talked special.
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #29 on: April 11, 2009, 04:45:55 AM »
How special
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #30 on: April 11, 2009, 04:50:05 AM »
Hey, it was a Wang-English dictionary, not a Chinese-English one.
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #31 on: April 11, 2009, 05:52:06 AM »
Wanglish?
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #32 on: April 11, 2009, 06:17:14 AM »
I mean, I am interested in seeing just how strange and foreign the language of Wang was, IM.
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #33 on: April 11, 2009, 07:21:53 AM »
Quote from: JDigital on April 10, 2009, 05:48:44 PM
I repeated the year, so I had her for two years running. I moved to another university the following year, only to find that she had moved to the same university.

:ohshi~: The call is coming from inside the university!
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #34 on: April 11, 2009, 08:27:17 AM »


Wanguage.

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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #35 on: April 11, 2009, 09:00:59 AM »
"Eef za sehckohn dareevateeve issa paaaahseeteeve, eet ees cahve aaaaaahpwahd.
Eef za sehckohn dareevateeve issa neeeehgateeve, eet ees cahve daaahwnwahd."

Translation: A positive second derivative means the graph will curve upward, but a negative one means the graph will curve downward.
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #36 on: April 11, 2009, 09:03:16 AM »
Some people call me Raymond. Ramón is too hard for them even thought it seems to be the beaner name of choice nowadays (Cars, Happy Feet, Resident Evil 4). Back in the day Ramone was THE French gay name and everyone got it right.
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #37 on: April 11, 2009, 09:08:34 AM »
You can probably blame Everybody Loves Raymond for making it an acceptable replacement for any /R.*m.*n.* /g.
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Re: Your Name Is Toby
« Reply #38 on: April 11, 2009, 12:34:26 PM »
You mean everyone doesn't love Raymond? :ohshi~:
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