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09-30-2005, 01:41 AM
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| Question about Vietnamese
Why is it that they all have last name Nguyen or Ngu or w/e?
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09-30-2005, 01:54 AM
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| Seriously, I noticed that. There was this girl in my like 3rd grade class, and her last name Nguyen, and I remember seeing someone in the Guiness Book of World Records with the last name Nguyen and I wonderered if they were related. Evertime I read the name Nguyen I was like what the hell, everyone is related to her. Then I finally realized it must be a common Vietnamese name. | |
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09-30-2005, 01:56 AM
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Originally Posted by ShadowSpectrum Seriously, I noticed that. There was this girl in my like 3rd grade class, and her last name Nguyen, and I remember seeing someone in the Guiness Book of World Records with the last name Nguyen and I wonderered if they were related. Evertime I read the name Nguyen I was like what the hell, everyone is related to her. Then I finally realized it must be a common Vietnamese name. | I knew 2 vietnamese friend back in elementary who has last anmes of Ngu and Nguyen, then last year this guy had last name nguyen, and just every one has nguyen as their last name, LOL?!
Its toooo common.
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09-30-2005, 03:04 AM
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| They must have a LOT of inter-family eloping.
But it's the same case with some Japanese names. Ever notice that the name Sakura (Which literally means "cherry blossom") is a very frequently occuring name? The same goes for last names - Tanaka is a hugely popular last name.
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09-30-2005, 03:09 AM
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| Over the three years I've been at my school, we've had about 500 nguyens. Last year alonie we had two whole pages full of nguyens in the index for our yearbook, that's like two or three columns a page, about 185 or so.
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09-30-2005, 03:14 AM
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| Every culture has popular names. One of the kids at my school is Vietnamese, and his last name is Tran. There is this chinese guy on the track name and his last name is actualy Chung. | |
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09-30-2005, 03:19 AM
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| http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Nguyen Quote: |
Nguyen is the most common Vietnamese family surname. By some estimates, approximately 40 percent of the Vietnamese people have this surname.
| By the way, how do you pronounce "Nguyen"? Ni-goo-yen? Nyu-yen?
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09-30-2005, 05:09 AM
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| Veitnamese girl in my school Nygen wtf..... | |
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09-30-2005, 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Leviathan They must have a LOT of inter-family eloping.
But it's the same case with some Japanese names. Ever notice that the name Sakura (Which literally means "cherry blossom") is a very frequently occuring name? The same goes for last names - Tanaka is a hugely popular last name. | I notice most middle eastern last names are the same. | |
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09-30-2005, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Leviathan | Yuen. As in harpoon, but the p is a u.
It descends from Chinese 'yuen', I believe. And it means 'far'.*
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09-30-2005, 01:53 PM
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| maybe there all incest?? ...no offense but they all look the same 2 me -.-
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09-30-2005, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by glowpole maybe there all incest?? ...no offense but they all look the same 2 me -.- | All Oriental people look vaguely the same. It's mostly because lots of children were encouraged in China a long time ago.*
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09-30-2005, 02:48 PM
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| but whats the deal with the white ace paint and stuff that china girls do?
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09-30-2005, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by glowpole but whats the deal with the white ace paint and stuff that china girls do? | But what's the deal with Americans eating so much?
It's the same thing; it's mostly tradition. .gif "Wink") *
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09-30-2005, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by x42bn6 But what's the deal with Americans eating so much?
It's the same thing; it's mostly tradition. * |
Ouch.....2 bad i'm not american....i'm mordorian
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09-30-2005, 08:33 PM
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| yea I just realized, theres over 3 types of my last name as well. oh well, im such a hypocrite.
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09-30-2005, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by N_LeGenD) I knew 2 vietnamese friend back in elementary who has last anmes of Ngu and Nguyen, then last year this guy had last name nguyen, and just every one has nguyen as their last name, LOL?!
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I know a dude that played football in this area with the last name nguyen look at him now he plays for the cowboys Dat Nguyen one bad middle line backer. would hate to get hit by him
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