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| Topic | I'm out of the loop. Apparently, people hate J.K. Rowling? |
| Gaawa_chan 09/19/22 5:42:53 PM #43: | LazLemon posted... Cho Chang is also never specified as being Asian in the books btw although I guess we're supposed to assume from the name. What's wrong with an Asian character being called Cho Chang anyway?You're better off just glancing at this page: https://www.reddit.com/r/asklinguistics/comments/gyf8gw/is_cho_chang_a_plausible_name_for_a_girl_of/ The simplest issue to point out is that it's two surnames from two different places unless you want to be really generous to Rowling and assume that she localized Zhou poorly. End result is that the name comes off as Rowling using words that sound "vaguely Asian," and that also has some, um, problematic precedent. People also take issue with Kingsley Shacklebolt, though I think that one is far more obvious in its issues to English speakers. Lokarin posted... Literally no american is named John Smith, not a oneIt's more like naming someone O'Sullivan Schneider. --- Hi ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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