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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Miriam Arghandiwal

    That is not entirely unreasonable reasoning? My uncle changed his name from "Arthur" to "Tony" when he moved to Italy because no-one could pronounce "Arthur" and he wanted something more Latinate & accessible to people he worked with.https://twitter.com/_Maro/status/1052272302237265922 …

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    Miriam Arghandiwal @_Maro
    Replying to @arianadelawari @SikhProf @dearabby
    So many brown people actually do this though. “What about __ as a name?” And they’ll respond with “no I don’t want them to have a hard time at school. I want a name that works for both cultures.”
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      1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17

        Obviously changing names to avoid bullying is not a free choice and then it is the bullying that produces the moral problem. Names themselves should be neutral & parents should not feel pressured to name their kids as a signal of loyalty to cultural heritage or to their new home.

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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17

        And my grandfather changed his surname from "Bellafemini" to "Woods" partly because he was embarrassed that it means "beautiful woman," partly coz he didn't feel Italian having grown up in London children's home & partly coz there was a war with the Italians on the other side

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17

        And he was given the first name, Joseph. However, it has always been quite clear to everyone that he is, in fact, Sicilian. People will say this is still European so no prejudice but there certainly was for the first half of his life, at least.pic.twitter.com/ZXa7jCRSLf

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      2. Claire Lehmann‏Verified account @clairlemon Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHKEXsaBFBQ …

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17
        Replying to @clairlemon

        OK, he might also have thought it was cooler!

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      2. Iona Italia‏ @IonaItalia Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It's common practice for Koreans who move to Argentina (they are one of our larger minority groups) to change their names to something Spanish. I feel a bit disappointed by this but they insist it's more polite & appropriate.

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      3. Troels Just‏ @Tsuroerusu Oct 17
        Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose

        I can kinda understand it, it gets really old having people mispronounce your name all the time. The only person outside the Jylland peninsula here in Denmark to have pronounced my name correctly is one of my Greek friends, who is half Russian and thus speaks three languages.

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      4. Iona Italia‏ @IonaItalia Oct 17
        Replying to @Tsuroerusu @HPluckrose

        I have to say, those multisyllabic Sri Lankan surnames are a challenge even for some Indians...

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      5. Troels Just‏ @Tsuroerusu Oct 17
        Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose

        I can imagine! I guess I should be grateful to my biological mother for the name "Milinda", which is easy to pronounce for pretty much anybody, heck even my cousin's Japanese wife should be able to do it, hell, next time she visits, she could just address me like that. 😆

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      6. Iona Italia‏ @IonaItalia Oct 17
        Replying to @Tsuroerusu @HPluckrose

        I have a friend called Kshitija. She is absolutely insistent that you MUST pronounce the K & SH simultaneously. Not one after the other. SIMULTANEOUSLY. I know insist on calling her Tija. I'm sorry. I tried. But my mouth won't do that.

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      7. Troels Just‏ @Tsuroerusu Oct 17
        Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose

        ... Sorry, Iona, but I had to read that last bit two times ... 😅 Anyway, one skill I seem to have maintained from childhood is an ability to mimic people, so I can usually pronounce stuff if I hear somebody else do it.

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      8. Antumbra  🦇 🎃 🦇‏ @Pen_Antumbra Oct 17
        Replying to @Tsuroerusu @IonaItalia @HPluckrose

        How? “K” is a plosive phoneme and “sh” is a fricative so that’s near impossible unless you are doing the “k” far back on the soft palate while breathing air through your teeth. I have to hear this magical sound she makes.

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      9. Troels Just‏ @Tsuroerusu Oct 17
        Replying to @Pen_Antumbra @IonaItalia @HPluckrose

        Yeah, I would not know how to do it unless I hear it, and preferably broken down by syllable for stuff like this. Put it this way, I can do a decent job at pronouncing Mandarin Chinese, but I REALLY have to hear things a few times.

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      2. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen Oct 18
        Replying to @HPluckrose @Jovangnr

        kid from Hong Kong at school ( sorry forgot his real name it was a long time ago) went by a very English sounding name "Nixon", saw his Hong Kong id card once. most people would have had no chance pronouncing it before any other issues.

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      3. Leon‏ @newerablog Oct 18
        Replying to @Zacnaloen @HPluckrose @Jovangnr

        I work with a lot of Chinese engineers and they all give themselves English names....apart from “Angelo”, he clearly hadn’t read the instructions properly.

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      4. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen Oct 18
        Replying to @newerablog @HPluckrose @Jovangnr

        he sounds like a top guy though

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      5. Leon‏ @newerablog Oct 18
        Replying to @Zacnaloen @HPluckrose @Jovangnr

        Honestly, he is my favourite. Very funny in broken English kind of way.

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      6. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen Oct 18
        Replying to @newerablog @HPluckrose @Jovangnr

        my guess is he knew exactly what he was doing when he settled on Angelo lol

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      1. elia noris‏ @enoris Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It’s singular that he didn’t go with Arturo.

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