Tuesday, May 19, 2015

[wvwzexvb] Naming after silverware or death

The joke goes, when a baby is born in China, the parents throw some silverware onto the floor, naming the child by whatever sounds they hear.

The irony is, from a Chinese perspective, even such a hypothetical naming system would be less bizarre than the actual American tradition of naming children after dead people.  Why curse a child with death from the moment of their birth?

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