Comments on: Boom Goes My Head http://justorb.com/2009/04/09/boom-goes-my-head/ A Tangential Autobiography Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:52:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Orb http://justorb.com/2009/04/09/boom-goes-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-14797 Orb Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:48:20 +0000 http://justorb.com/2009/04/09/boom-goes-my-head/#comment-14797 AS far as voting goes, having worked with registration drives and such, I've never seen any Asian name on a driver's license or voter card that wasn't the transliterated one. I think a few times there was like a John Wang or something like that, but their ID matched what was put on the voter card, so it's not like they were using two names (might have been their birth same anyway, who knows). I assure you, nowhere in Texas does any official printing device print Asian characters. I don't even think they are capable of printing umlauts (or the people typing in the data don't know how to input them - never seen a German name on anything official that had them, which is statistically odd). So if they get their silly voter ID act passed, as long as the two documents match, who cares. It's not like anyone has to pronounce the names out loud or anything. Which is neither here nor there, because this woman seems to think there are two (or more) kinds of American. Ones with good old-fashioned American names like Betty Brown, and anyone who has a name that isn't easy for her brain to comprehend as soon as she looks at it. That's really the mind bender on this is her saying Americans were having trouble with the names. Um, they are Americans too moron! I don't even have a weird last name. Perfectly standard, though rare, Scots-Irish name, and anyone in Texas who has ever listened to a sports cast about Texas baseball should be able to pronounce it. Still, it's regularly mangled. I know what half the people I am distantly related to added a "y" in it, just so people would stop mangling their last name! My mom's side of the family? Boy, so people around here not know how to pronounce Germanic names at all. The outcome is always hilarious. :lol: And John, I know full well how everyone not in Texas sees Texas. There are more than enough damn Yankees on the message boards and community blogs I visit telling me regular what a bunch of stupid redneck hicks Texans are. Always pisses me off, seeing as we are ALL like that ... though the stupid does seem a little thick outside the major urban centers (or really, outside of Austin). It's getting better, but we really need to get the idiots out of our legislature. Truly, many of them make my head hurt daily, and does give the impression Texas is full of idiots. AS far as voting goes, having worked with registration drives and such, I’ve never seen any Asian name on a driver’s license or voter card that wasn’t the transliterated one. I think a few times there was like a John Wang or something like that, but their ID matched what was put on the voter card, so it’s not like they were using two names (might have been their birth same anyway, who knows). I assure you, nowhere in Texas does any official printing device print Asian characters. I don’t even think they are capable of printing umlauts (or the people typing in the data don’t know how to input them – never seen a German name on anything official that had them, which is statistically odd). So if they get their silly voter ID act passed, as long as the two documents match, who cares. It’s not like anyone has to pronounce the names out loud or anything.

Which is neither here nor there, because this woman seems to think there are two (or more) kinds of American. Ones with good old-fashioned American names like Betty Brown, and anyone who has a name that isn’t easy for her brain to comprehend as soon as she looks at it. That’s really the mind bender on this is her saying Americans were having trouble with the names. Um, they are Americans too moron!

I don’t even have a weird last name. Perfectly standard, though rare, Scots-Irish name, and anyone in Texas who has ever listened to a sports cast about Texas baseball should be able to pronounce it. Still, it’s regularly mangled. I know what half the people I am distantly related to added a “y” in it, just so people would stop mangling their last name! My mom’s side of the family? Boy, so people around here not know how to pronounce Germanic names at all. The outcome is always hilarious. :lol:

And John, I know full well how everyone not in Texas sees Texas. There are more than enough damn Yankees on the message boards and community blogs I visit telling me regular what a bunch of stupid redneck hicks Texans are. Always pisses me off, seeing as we are ALL like that … though the stupid does seem a little thick outside the major urban centers (or really, outside of Austin). It’s getting better, but we really need to get the idiots out of our legislature. Truly, many of them make my head hurt daily, and does give the impression Texas is full of idiots.

]]> By: Ekim http://justorb.com/2009/04/09/boom-goes-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-14796 Ekim Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:58:08 +0000 http://justorb.com/2009/04/09/boom-goes-my-head/#comment-14796 Surely, what needs to be done is to standardise whether they are meant to use their standard English names or their transliterated names. After all, I mean, my name is Hebrew. Surely, what needs to be done is to standardise whether they are meant to use their standard English names or their transliterated names.

After all, I mean, my name is Hebrew.

]]> By: John http://justorb.com/2009/04/09/boom-goes-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-14795 John Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:47:31 +0000 http://justorb.com/2009/04/09/boom-goes-my-head/#comment-14795 You realize, don't you, that many non-Texans view the state pretty much as portrayed in 'King of the Hill,' and in that context wouldn't find Ms. Brown's statements all that shocking? Expect boxcar loads of stupidity in the near future. It's going to be our stock in trade vis-a-vis the rest of the world. If we could commoditize and sell it, America might become rich again. You realize, don’t you, that many non-Texans view the state pretty much as portrayed in ‘King of the Hill,’ and in that context wouldn’t find Ms. Brown’s statements all that shocking?

Expect boxcar loads of stupidity in the near future. It’s going to be our stock in trade vis-a-vis the rest of the world. If we could commoditize and sell it, America might become rich again.

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