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I must admit, for a very long time I thought he was Vietnamese, as Dang is a Vietnamese name. Interestingly, I'm finding it hard to shake that initial visual i

I must admit, for a very long time I thought he was Vietnamese, as Dang is a Vietnamese name. Interestingly, I'm finding it hard to shake that initial visual image, even though I know it's wrong. Brains are weird.

xen2xen1 4y ago
Yes, same for many years.
- dsunds 4y ago
  Same. An unconscious bias buster. And truly, thank you. Rock solid. Steady hand.
do_anh_tu 4y ago
Specially if you are a Vietnamese like me. Still see him as Đăng
dang 4y ago
It would be my honor. But the origins of the name are (1) it's my first name plus initial; (2) it was my email address at my first job; and (3) it's what you say when you make a mistake, which I knew there would be a lot of. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494440 bonus credit to DonHopkins https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513120
- berkeleyjunk 4y ago
  I always thought it was 3)
- ChrisArchitect 4y ago
  Dang, because of the lowercase g I've always read it as Dang and said it with a twang in my head.
- mdp2021 4y ago
  > ['dang': ] (3) it's what you say when you make a mistake For the philologist, from around 1780, The chapter of accidents: a comedy by Sophia Lee. > Jacob: Dang it, doan't I zeay, I'll tell thee present... > dang it, I thought at first I ha' zwounded... https://archive.org/details/chapteraccident00leegoog/page/n40/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/chapteraccident00leegoog/page/n4... ...But I also immediately think of Gary Larson.
  - dang 4y ago
    Wow. 18th century philology FTW! How on earth did you find that?
    - mdp2021 4y ago
      > How on earth My friend, have you noticed in these few years that I believe in particular attention to words? :) It was pretty easy: Etymonline, which is part of my few core references as "dictionary of meaning" (as opposed to "dictionary of use"), gives the first clues at https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=dang https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=dang . Then I looked for the original text and checked the details.
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code_devil 4y ago
I had no idea either and had a similar visual image of @dang. I just had to google and find his full name and a picture to put a face to the name :)
- mdp2021 4y ago
  > and a picture I thought it was the only picture not published on YC and kept private.
tomcam 4y ago
Precisely the same for me after, what, a decade? Plus my spouse is Asian and I always subvocalize his name to a pitched language, so I’m just screwed. “Dan Gackle” sounds too… alien

xen2xen1 4y ago

Yes, same for many years.

dsunds 4y ago
Same. An unconscious bias buster. And truly, thank you. Rock solid. Steady hand.

do_anh_tu 4y ago

Specially if you are a Vietnamese like me. Still see him as Đăng

dang 4y ago

It would be my honor. But the origins of the name are (1) it's my first name plus initial; (2) it was my email address at my first job; and (3) it's what you say when you make a mistake, which I knew there would be a lot of. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494440 bonus credit to DonHopkins https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513120

berkeleyjunk 4y ago
I always thought it was 3)
ChrisArchitect 4y ago
Dang, because of the lowercase g I've always read it as Dang and said it with a twang in my head.
mdp2021 4y ago
> ['dang': ] (3) it's what you say when you make a mistake For the philologist, from around 1780, The chapter of accidents: a comedy by Sophia Lee. > Jacob: Dang it, doan't I zeay, I'll tell thee present... > dang it, I thought at first I ha' zwounded... https://archive.org/details/chapteraccident00leegoog/page/n40/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/chapteraccident00leegoog/page/n4... ...But I also immediately think of Gary Larson.
- dang 4y ago
  Wow. 18th century philology FTW! How on earth did you find that?
  - mdp2021 4y ago
    > How on earth My friend, have you noticed in these few years that I believe in particular attention to words? :) It was pretty easy: Etymonline, which is part of my few core references as "dictionary of meaning" (as opposed to "dictionary of use"), gives the first clues at https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=dang https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=dang . Then I looked for the original text and checked the details.

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code_devil 4y ago

I had no idea either and had a similar visual image of @dang. I just had to google and find his full name and a picture to put a face to the name :)

mdp2021 4y ago
> and a picture I thought it was the only picture not published on YC and kept private.

tomcam 4y ago

Precisely the same for me after, what, a decade? Plus my spouse is Asian and I always subvocalize his name to a pitched language, so I’m just screwed. “Dan Gackle” sounds too… alien