Names

After making a list of foods, I figured I'd make a somewhat shorter list of names.
Chinese students often choose English names. In turn, many non-Chinese make Chinese names. Although Yang Laoshi gave me a Chinese name for class, I refuse to use it here in China. My name is Andy, and where I am does not effect that. Anyway, I digress. The Chinese SUCK at choosing English names. Some are ok, but others are stupid nouns or adjectives. Here are some of the names of some of my local friends that are in my phone:

Leaf (girl)
Pephone (pronounced Payphone) (guy)
Smile (girl)
Bone (girl)
Noodle (girl)

The rest of the people in my phone are decent English names. Usually guy's names are really feminine and girls names (like Bone) are really masculine. They don't really have a concept of what the names mean.

It only makes it worse that the chinese word for "he/him" is the same as "her/she" so when speaking English, they often confuse the two, and call their mother "he" and father "her."

It leads to a lot of instances of me stuggling to not laugh in their face. I know I hate it when they laugh at my pathetic Chinese, and I'd hate to do the same to them about their English. But GOOD GOD its funny.