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The I love when people have perfect names. The victims lawyers name is Ouchi.

This is pretty tragic, reading the article there is no way this is an isolated incident



There is a hypothesis, “nominative determinism”, that posits that people tend to gravitate toward professions that “match” their names. I don’t fully buy it, but it’s an interesting idea that has at least some evidence to support it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism


Wang, Oh, Ouchi... Asian names can be hilarious for an English speaker. The incident itself is not that hilarious on the other hand.


The reverse is also true - I recall reading an artucle that lists English names and their (often offensive) homonyms in Cantonese.




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