Friday, October 26, 2007

New Name for Anne

We recently applied for local Chinese credit cards because there are a number of places in China that do not accept foreign credit cards. According to the application (which was in Chinese so it had to be translated) we had to apply using our full names.

Today we received the cards in the mail and were fairly satisfied to see they had gotten Scott’s name pretty close to being correct. However, they made a slight error on Anne’s card. It came to us with her name written as “An Na”. Nothing else – just “An Na”. Now if her name was actually Anna, then we might see how they could make such a mistake. However, since it isn’t, we are really struggling to see how a major bank could get “An Na.” Plus, if you use the same logic they applied to Scott’s card (surname first then given names), her name would actually be Na An to a westerner.

Sounds like she’s found her Chinese name!

1 comments:

Jill and HD said...

We like it! We think!
Mom and Dad

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