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apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Happy birthday to Tu Youyou, happy birthday to you”

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But that isn’t how the song is sung.

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    • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sorry, it’s “Happy birthday dear Tu Youyou”. And you generally use their first name only, but there’s no reason you can’t use their full name.

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      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Exactly, you just say it once.

        Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

        Happy birthday dear [insert name].

        Happy birthday to you.

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      • inkblade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear YouYou. Happy birthday to you.

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s quite funny if you don’t think too much about it.

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• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Depending on whether Tu or Youyou is her “first” name for the song it will be:

  “Happy birthday to Tu”

  Or

  “Happy birthday to Youyou”

  Both have repetition that is likely to trip up a lot of people.

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  • Semjeza@fedinsfw.app ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    East Asian, China.

    So her given name is “Youyou”, pronounced Yoyo (flat high tone).

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  • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Chinese, the first character (Tu) is the family name while the following character(s) are the given name (Youyou).

    p.s. the “ou” sound in Chinese is pronounced more like an “o” rather than than an “ooh”, so the joke doesn’t really work (not quite, but it’s close enough. I’m not very good at speaking Mandarin so take this with a slight grain of salt)

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  • ascend@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    People always get mixed up regardless, people refer to people by different names like nicknames or relationship like ‘mom’ so when you get to the name part its always some funny mix

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “Happy birthday to Carol/Caroline/Slut/Mom!”

      Yeah, that checks out.

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Good ol’ brigadier general Caroline Slutmom 😁🫡

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yep, either way if you are signing Happy Birthday to her, you likely know her well enough to know her name well and sing it with no problem.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You could ne staff at a restaurant who are not familiar with her…

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Tu is her first name, and it’s “dear”, not “to”. So it would be “Happy birthday, dear Tu”.

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    • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Note that in Chinese, the first character is the family name while the next ones are the given name. So “Youyou” would be the given name!

      Naming customs in various places are very fun to learn. Did you know that in Iceland, the last name is the father’s first name appended with “son” (male), “dottir” (female), or “bur” (non-binary)?

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re right, I mistakenly thought that Western naming convention was being used. Fixed!

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• WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think you might end up saying it about 4 times on accident.

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• velma@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We can’t acknowledge that, then we wouldn’t be able to ignore her amazing discovery and make fun of her name instead!

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “It would be hard to sing Happy Birthday to her if you purposely sang the song incorrectly!”

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