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I’m a Chinese language learner (native English speaker) and I was also kind of surprised by some points in the article. Listing out “Hillary Diane Rodham Clinto
by elil17 7y ago
I’m a Chinese language learner (native English speaker) and I was also kind of surprised by some points in the article. Listing out “Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton” struck me as a particularly weird example - no Chinese newspaper would ever give that full name - they’d probably just refer to her as 希拉里. I enjoyed the article but it definetly misunderstood some things.
- fastball 7y agoThe author literally said that he read that in a newspaper, so one of you is wrong.
- binarysolo 7y agoSpend 20+ years in Taiwan and China here: most media use 希拉里. There might be specific conventions which compel them to print the full name (if it's a very formal thing?) but they'd do it once maybe, then revert to 希拉里.