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Re:Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship with Nvidia Ex... by rjh29 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:21PM (#50461741)
I find it hard to describe why this comment triggers me... partly because 黃 is the 7th most common surname in China. And I don't think any native speaker would make that connection. It's like saying "haha that guy named Ryan Johnson was adulterous because his surname is slang for a penis!"
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Re:Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship with Nvidia Ex... by bigstrat2003 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:24PM (#50461761)
> It's like saying "haha that guy named Ryan Johnson was adulterous because his surname is slang for a penis!"

That's totally a joke people would make. Joking about nominative determinism happens all the time.

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Re:Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship with Nvidia Ex... by somenameforme on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:52PM (#50462013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner
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Re:Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship with Nvidia Ex... by owlninja on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:55PM (#50462038)
You just made me have a flashback to the early 90s when there was a popular brand of t-shirts called 'Big Johnson' with the character E. Normus Johnson. The jokes wrote themselves and I am sort of shocked to see they are actually still in business!
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Re:Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship with Nvidia Ex... by rjh29 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:51PM (#50471276)
It does, but I think Johnson is too much of a stretch to be funny, which is why I chose that example.

And nominative determinism is a dick move regardless of whether people do it or not.

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Re:Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship with Nvidia Ex... by jan_m_savage on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:57PM (#50462493)
Are you native speaker of Chinese? Have you lived in China? I didn't think so. The Chinese themselves make fun of this word all the time. The Chinese certainly have a great sense of humor, unlike you.
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