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		Why Do (Some) Chinese People Pick 'Weird' English Names for Themselves? (yiqinfu.github.io)
		5 points by hunglee2 on July 12, 2020 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

mech422 on July 12, 2020 [–]

One thing I've never understood, is why when people anglicised names, they didn't go with phonetic spellings?

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