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Wait, this guy's family name is seriously Kimchi? The drone is cool but learning Kimchi is a surname is blowing my mind
by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Wait, this guy's family name is seriously Kimchi? The drone is cool but learning Kimchi is a surname is blowing my mind
- GorgeRonde 7y agoI don't get the reference, would you mind explaining? On a related note, I've always been baffled by Coursera founder & ML fame Andrew Ng's name. How am I supposed to pronounced it?
- gamegoblin 7y ago"Ng" is pronounced somewhat like the "ung" in "sung" but with the vowel shortened.
- bazooka_penguin 7y agoA famous Korean side dish?
- NikkiA 7y ago> How am I supposed to pronounced it? Push your tongue against the top of your mouth and say 'ung', it's usually close enough (also holds for the common vietnamese name of Nguyen) Specifically, it's the velar nasal phonome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velar_nasal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velar_nasal
- ctvo 7y agoIt’s incredible, right? I don’t want to spoil it for you, but there are folks with last names like Baker, Miller, Smith, etc. that don’t even resemble food dish names! They’re occupations. Mind blown.
- bazooka_penguin 7y agoUsed by people who've adopted those names after being assimilated into the cultures from which those names came about. Gur Kimchi is evidently Jewish, and his name appears to be a variation of the Sephardic Jewish family name Kimhi. It evolved independently of the Korean name for their side dish, seeing as how they're from different language families