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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by elil17 on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:15PM (#21319413)
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.
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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by fastball on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:18PM (#21319797)
The author literally said that he read that in a newspaper, so one of you is wrong.
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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by binarysolo on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:31PM (#21319871)
Spend 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.

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