Comment on Hbd 2 uu

• sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨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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• Semjeza@fedinsfw.app ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  East Asian, China.

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

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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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      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Slutmom sounds like a British village with an unfortunate name like Cockthorpe.

        “Did you know Cockthorpe has a church?”

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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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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