Six! Seven! It All Sounds the Same to Me April 27, 2009
Posted by Emily in : Asia, Memory Lane , trackbackI know a girl named Seven. As in the number seven. She was my dress assistant when I worked as a fit model in Taiwan. She was so sweet and lovely, and spoke basic English pretty well with her soft low voice.
One day, after my skin felt like it would fall off my body if one more piece of fabric touched it, (she had helped me slide in and out of over 100 dresses that day) I asked her why her name was Seven.
Did you know that Asians who work primarily with Americans give themselves American names? Yeah, they just pick out a name that sounds nice to them, and name themselves.
This is why she is named, Seven.
Because some ill-informed Asian told her that the number Seven was a popular name.
I kept calling her Six (on accident) when she was so nice to take me to the world’s stinkiest night market to help me find make-up brushes. I yelled, “SIX!” several times above the loud hum of the crowded market to get her attention, and only after her non-response did I realize that the numbers six and seven don’t sound the same.
(Seven is on the left in the green shirt. She is the the only Asian in the photo which might give her away too. . .)
Moral of the story:
Don’t name your kid after a number.
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That is so funny! Isn’t there a Star Trek character named Seven or something?
Well, it’s certainly unique!
Matts mom named herself Jenny, but I think her friend named herself Young. Her name is Young Ball. Crazy huh!
Ok i am a loser! i have been looking at the bottom of each of your posts, trying to figure out how to comment on you blog entries and couldnt figure out why there was not an option to comment… that is because it is at the top of the entry, not the bottom! anyways, i totally recognize that dress!
Seven is considered lucky. And it might be the most popular number. name…number. I could see how that could get lost in translation.
There’s a whole Seinfeld episode where they talk about Seven being a cool name for a kid. I wonder if that’s where the faceless stranger got the idea to tell her that?
dang, i was planning on naming this baby “four”! i actually do know someone who named their child seven (but it was only baby #2). but hey, i live l.a., guess anything goes here (that same statement could also work for 99% of utah names too).
Love that movie! I not only cried, I SOBBED for the last 15 minutes. We have a great dog (was a hard puppy) but he has been our baby and seen us through some incredible losses (and he loves kids!) I also had a dog be out to sleep in my 16 year old arms after being hit down an old country road. It was hard, and I cried for years! Great movie!
I need to re-word some things:
I had a dog that was put to sleep while being held in my sixteen year old arms.