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Post #130967 by PiPhiRho on Tue, Dec 14, 2004 12:20 PM

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Once upon a time I knew a Vietnamese girl whose name was Phuc Phan. Asian names can often be unintentionally funny in English. What kills me is the recent trend of naming kids after cities like Austin, Camden, Dallas, Denver, etc. I once joked that I was thinking of naming a kid Lake Forest.