Ok. I've got to name names. This one is bothering me. It's a picture from the gallery, but the picture is not my biggest concern. My biggest concern is the character's name. It's... Bong. This person named the character BONG.

Does anyone even look at actual asian languages or talk to real asian people for names? At least Khrys asks my fiance, who is mainland Chinese, for names.

For those who don't know, Khrys' Jie-Jie is an "older version" of Xie, Khrys' original asian character. She's like a big sister to Xie. Jie-Jie's name? It means... big sister.

Regardless of how "unasian" peoples' characters turn out to be, can people at LEAST try to give them REAL ASIAN NAMES? This is NOT like playing "asian music" on the piano by "hitting all the black keys". You do NOT start with a hard consonant, then alternate from vowel to consonant to get generic names like Koko or Kimiko, or grab a consonant and slap it onto the front of "ang", "eng", "ing", "ong", or "ung" for a name like Bong or Ling.

This topic heading makes me cry, but many, many of the replies are very thoughtful and considerate in their responses, and some good debate is going on.

It's good to see people talk about this so openly.

Message edited on: 12/20/2005 11:56