Monday, 1 August 2011

0871 HKSAR Name of the Day

Scotty Luk Wai Cheong, doctor, Hong Kong


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  1. Anonymous10 August 2011 at 00:17

    Try Bones Dr Luk. Scotty is an engineer.

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  2. Novel Names15 August 2011 at 20:42

    Yes, Bones or Doc (or Beverley) would have made more sense.

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  3. aimlesswanderer18 August 2011 at 23:24

    Yeah, Beverly is a great name for a guy! Would probably be unique.

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  4. Novel Names22 August 2011 at 13:34

    You may laugh but somewhere out there, there is a male Beverly!

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  5. aimlesswanderer22 August 2011 at 23:45

    Oh gawd, that's just wrong. What's next, a chick called Robert?

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  6. Novel Names24 August 2011 at 20:36

    Well, there's already a chick called Benny (see 0523)
    http://hksarblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/0523-hksar-name-of-day.html

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  7. amlesswanderer27 August 2011 at 15:57

    Well, many male names are "feminised" by adding a y or ie on the end. That's a more palatable explanation, anyway!

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  8. Novel Names30 August 2011 at 08:19

    Yes AW, that is a nice way of putting it. I don't mind feminised names such as Toni for Tony, when the spelling helps people to figure out the sex of a person. However, when these conventions are mucked up by culturally- or linguistically-insensitive (or -ignorant) people, then that's when the confusion arises. Ms Benny To could have followed convention and used Benni but instead the Hong Kong urge to select a unique, novel name dictated otherwise.

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