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Why the obvious fake idendity?

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    A person named "John Smith" (does that look fake to you or is that just me?) asked a question in which he repeatedly referred to the question as a "doubt". That's obviously Indian English. So ok, "John Smith" is obviously a fake name, but why? Anonymity? But then why not use a fake Indian name? If you're going to use Indian English anyway, it's not like we won't know you're really Indian.. and why would that matter anyway? Or, if you're going through the trouble of assuming an English identity, why not put more effort into actually appearing English? Plz resolve this doubt urgentz

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      A person named "John Smith" (does that look fake to you or is that just me?) asked a question in which he repeatedly referred to the question as a "doubt". That's obviously Indian English. So ok, "John Smith" is obviously a fake name, but why? Anonymity? But then why not use a fake Indian name? If you're going to use Indian English anyway, it's not like we won't know you're really Indian.. and why would that matter anyway? Or, if you're going through the trouble of assuming an English identity, why not put more effort into actually appearing English? Plz resolve this doubt urgentz

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      Marco Bertschi
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      harold aptroot wrote:

      Plz resolve this doubt urgentz

      He didn't ask for codezz? :omg:

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        A person named "John Smith" (does that look fake to you or is that just me?) asked a question in which he repeatedly referred to the question as a "doubt". That's obviously Indian English. So ok, "John Smith" is obviously a fake name, but why? Anonymity? But then why not use a fake Indian name? If you're going to use Indian English anyway, it's not like we won't know you're really Indian.. and why would that matter anyway? Or, if you're going through the trouble of assuming an English identity, why not put more effort into actually appearing English? Plz resolve this doubt urgentz

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        ZurdoDev
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        I'm with you. I "doubt" that's his real name.

        There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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          A person named "John Smith" (does that look fake to you or is that just me?) asked a question in which he repeatedly referred to the question as a "doubt". That's obviously Indian English. So ok, "John Smith" is obviously a fake name, but why? Anonymity? But then why not use a fake Indian name? If you're going to use Indian English anyway, it's not like we won't know you're really Indian.. and why would that matter anyway? Or, if you're going through the trouble of assuming an English identity, why not put more effort into actually appearing English? Plz resolve this doubt urgentz

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          peterchen
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          It seems popular for Chinese, Indian etc. in contact with westerners to take on a western-sounding name. Just to avoid that awkward "And this ist "Kahitprati Prakavschitfockdamnwhydoyoubastardshavetonguebreakersasnamesiamgoingtokillyouallstartingwithjanicethesecretaryyesjanicesoyouseehowunreasonableiamabotuthis!"

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            It seems popular for Chinese, Indian etc. in contact with westerners to take on a western-sounding name. Just to avoid that awkward "And this ist "Kahitprati Prakavschitfockdamnwhydoyoubastardshavetonguebreakersasnamesiamgoingtokillyouallstartingwithjanicethesecretaryyesjanicesoyouseehowunreasonableiamabotuthis!"

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            Wow. You just broke Chris' beautiful site formatting :wtf: :wtf:

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              It seems popular for Chinese, Indian etc. in contact with westerners to take on a western-sounding name. Just to avoid that awkward "And this ist "Kahitprati Prakavschitfockdamnwhydoyoubastardshavetonguebreakersasnamesiamgoingtokillyouallstartingwithjanicethesecretaryyesjanicesoyouseehowunreasonableiamabotuthis!"

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              Super Lloyd
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              Why? This a beautiful name to be proud of!! :-D

              My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!

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                It seems popular for Chinese, Indian etc. in contact with westerners to take on a western-sounding name. Just to avoid that awkward "And this ist "Kahitprati Prakavschitfockdamnwhydoyoubastardshavetonguebreakersasnamesiamgoingtokillyouallstartingwithjanicethesecretaryyesjanicesoyouseehowunreasonableiamabotuthis!"

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                BobJanova
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                Chinese and other Far Eastern people typically take a Western Christian name, so they're Wendy Wong or John Tang, probably because we'd fail to pronounce it correctly enough to actually be the same word. I haven't really seen many Indians doing this though, possibly because the main Indian languages aren't tonal so it's possible to pronounce Indian names without too much difficulty. Of course there's the ludicrous call centre etiquette of 'Hello, this is Fred, how can I help you?' in the most obvious Indian accent, as if they think we'll be fooled by it.

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                  A person named "John Smith" (does that look fake to you or is that just me?) asked a question in which he repeatedly referred to the question as a "doubt". That's obviously Indian English. So ok, "John Smith" is obviously a fake name, but why? Anonymity? But then why not use a fake Indian name? If you're going to use Indian English anyway, it's not like we won't know you're really Indian.. and why would that matter anyway? Or, if you're going through the trouble of assuming an English identity, why not put more effort into actually appearing English? Plz resolve this doubt urgentz

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                  Vivi Chellappa
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                  Because every Indian is named Rajeev! :rolleyes: ;P

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                    Because every Indian is named Rajeev! :rolleyes: ;P

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                    And every muslim Mohammed

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                      And every muslim Mohammed

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                      And every Brit Lloyd. :)

                      There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                        A person named "John Smith" (does that look fake to you or is that just me?) asked a question in which he repeatedly referred to the question as a "doubt". That's obviously Indian English. So ok, "John Smith" is obviously a fake name, but why? Anonymity? But then why not use a fake Indian name? If you're going to use Indian English anyway, it's not like we won't know you're really Indian.. and why would that matter anyway? Or, if you're going through the trouble of assuming an English identity, why not put more effort into actually appearing English? Plz resolve this doubt urgentz

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                        Every time I get a call from an Indian call centre (bank, credit card etc) and they say that their name is Kevin, Patrick, Mary or some such obviously phoney name, I ask them once if that is their real name. If they say it is, I then demand to speak to a supervisor to complain. If they say no, I ask for their real name and then ask why they have lied to me, and then ask for the supervisor. I explain that, for security and data protection reasons, they insist on me giving correct information, but do not afford me the same courtesy. The then usually spout some garbage about using "business names" because us poor brits cannot remember or pronounce Indian names. At this point I usually accuse them of racism, which they do not like. On the other hand, there are many Anglo-Indian families that do have western names - I work in an office near Manchester where people of sub-continental heritage are in the majority, and one of them has a very western name (forename and surname), so it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that John Smith is his real name.


                        It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com


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                          And every Brit Lloyd. :)

                          There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                          ... and every Australian Bruce (even the Sheilas)


                          It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com


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                            ... and every Australian Bruce (even the Sheilas)


                            It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com


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                            :)

                            There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                              Every time I get a call from an Indian call centre (bank, credit card etc) and they say that their name is Kevin, Patrick, Mary or some such obviously phoney name, I ask them once if that is their real name. If they say it is, I then demand to speak to a supervisor to complain. If they say no, I ask for their real name and then ask why they have lied to me, and then ask for the supervisor. I explain that, for security and data protection reasons, they insist on me giving correct information, but do not afford me the same courtesy. The then usually spout some garbage about using "business names" because us poor brits cannot remember or pronounce Indian names. At this point I usually accuse them of racism, which they do not like. On the other hand, there are many Anglo-Indian families that do have western names - I work in an office near Manchester where people of sub-continental heritage are in the majority, and one of them has a very western name (forename and surname), so it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that John Smith is his real name.


                              It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com


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                              Chris Quinn wrote:

                              it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that John Smith is his real name.

                              Of course. I suppose I should have said something like "the chance that it's his real name is vanishingly small" to appease the pedants - no offense ;)

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                                Why? This a beautiful name to be proud of!! :-D

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                                peterchen
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                                Super Lloyd wrote:

                                This a beautiful name to be proud of!! :-D

                                Agreed, but it's really hard to pronounce without offending Janice.

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                                  Chinese and other Far Eastern people typically take a Western Christian name, so they're Wendy Wong or John Tang, probably because we'd fail to pronounce it correctly enough to actually be the same word. I haven't really seen many Indians doing this though, possibly because the main Indian languages aren't tonal so it's possible to pronounce Indian names without too much difficulty. Of course there's the ludicrous call centre etiquette of 'Hello, this is Fred, how can I help you?' in the most obvious Indian accent, as if they think we'll be fooled by it.

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                                  BobJanova wrote:

                                  Wendy Wong

                                  I think I've seen a few of her films...

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                                    Because every Indian is named Rajeev! :rolleyes: ;P

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                                    Super Lloyd
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                                    How about Patel?!!!

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                                      Every time I get a call from an Indian call centre (bank, credit card etc) and they say that their name is Kevin, Patrick, Mary or some such obviously phoney name, I ask them once if that is their real name. If they say it is, I then demand to speak to a supervisor to complain. If they say no, I ask for their real name and then ask why they have lied to me, and then ask for the supervisor. I explain that, for security and data protection reasons, they insist on me giving correct information, but do not afford me the same courtesy. The then usually spout some garbage about using "business names" because us poor brits cannot remember or pronounce Indian names. At this point I usually accuse them of racism, which they do not like. On the other hand, there are many Anglo-Indian families that do have western names - I work in an office near Manchester where people of sub-continental heritage are in the majority, and one of them has a very western name (forename and surname), so it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that John Smith is his real name.


                                      It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com


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                                      BobJanova
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                                      I'd hope that a Mancunian called John Smith would use English English, though!

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                                        It seems popular for Chinese, Indian etc. in contact with westerners to take on a western-sounding name. Just to avoid that awkward "And this ist "Kahitprati Prakavschitfockdamnwhydoyoubastardshavetonguebreakersasnamesiamgoingtokillyouallstartingwithjanicethesecretaryyesjanicesoyouseehowunreasonableiamabotuthis!"

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                                        Rutvik Dave
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                                        No, That last name sounds Russian.

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                                          A person named "John Smith" (does that look fake to you or is that just me?) asked a question in which he repeatedly referred to the question as a "doubt". That's obviously Indian English. So ok, "John Smith" is obviously a fake name, but why? Anonymity? But then why not use a fake Indian name? If you're going to use Indian English anyway, it's not like we won't know you're really Indian.. and why would that matter anyway? Or, if you're going through the trouble of assuming an English identity, why not put more effort into actually appearing English? Plz resolve this doubt urgentz

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                                          Indians who are Christian by religion (and there are plenty of them) tend to have English names.

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