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synthbug · 10 months ago

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I'm reading a superhero webnovel titled worm, and I'm in a part that's pretty sinophobic, and there's mention of characters with mandarin names:

Tōng Líng Tǎ; Shén yù

I looked it up and didn't find anything, and then I remembered that you speak mandarin. Any idea what they say in English?

OOOO I could be missing something but from what I can tell Shén yù is supposed to be like 神谕 ? Which is like an oracle, and Líng tǎ could be 灵塔 like those buddhist pagodas maybe :0 and Tōng just sounds like a regular surname :3 definitely there's a like divine, spiritual or religious theme which is common enough in chinese stuff, so I guess that's fair. I'm not sure if it would be considered problematic since I'm quite blur about this stuff but I will say it's pretty on the nose if I'm guessing the words right, like they're just nouns 😭 ANYWAYY I don't know much about names so </3

#im making a guess cuz the spelling and pinyin match and theres a theme #PERSONALLY i think its fine (cant speak for others) cuz sometimes u rlly do just pick a word or two and mess around to make names #like maybe homophones or using certain characters #but just the straight up noun is funny ，tho again maybe the author used characters that r homophones :o #and i think having names tied to divinity or religion is not uncommon like im sure theres names with 神 in em #but idk abt the pagoda one cuz i think it could be weird since its like for memorial but i dont know enough abt names ��#sorry about the sinophobia in ur book BUT HEY win for chinese superhero character likers 👍 mayhaps #i shld look into this story if i have time :3

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