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I come from France where we have the tradition to use saints' names (mine is a very classical example) and I moved to China and got a daughter there with my loc
by xwolfi 6y ago
I come from France where we have the tradition to use saints' names (mine is a very classical example) and I moved to China and got a daughter there with my local wife.
I ended up breaking all possible traditions from all families involved, by putting no Christian names but pre-christian greeks keywords for her first 2 european-sounding names, using a scientific reference for her 2-character Chinese name, and for the family name character, use my own french last name's second syllable transliterated.
I got scolded from every possible elder in all languages but I never felt so revolutionary :D (and all her names are 'normal', just 0 reference to any tradition - I didn't name her aquarium or anything :D). And at least she will have names everyone can pronounce, unlike me who still can't be named correctly by most asian language speakers grrr