Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese pe...
by yoz-y on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:16AM
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It kind of does. As previously stated no Chinese word is pronounced as the English word "bing". Mandarin makes heavy use of tonality and the same roman transcript (or pinyin) can have many meanings. You would really need to dig far to find an accent-less syllabe (for the lack of a better word) and not find any negative connotation. Heck, in Chinese even many numbers can be used as insults.
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Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese pe...
by stephencanon on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:56PM
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Add to that the fact that the Chinese love to substitute similar sounding words to make puns, and it's completely impossible to come up with a name that doesn't admit some negative reading.
Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese pe...
by dilemma on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @07:00PM
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The 'bing' in cn.bing.com and the logo at the top of the same page isn't read out in English by a Chinese person, but in Chinese, and it has neither tone nor hanzi. "Disease" is a meaning that easily springs to mind when seeing it and it is therefore an unlucky naming choice.