Translating name into Chinese....

Coming out of the WWII military vocab----in order of disastrous effects ----

SNAFU = Situation Normal, All F'd Up

TARFU = Things Are Really F'd Up

FUBAR = F'd Up Beyond All Recognition

 

I remember most of those.  There are a few others, but my addled brain can't retrieve them right now.  SSDD - same s*it, Different day 

Following on from SSDD....

ODV = only the depth that varies

And WOMFU....well organised military fuck up!

Now there's one I haven't heard before.

Well, my Chinese name doesn't translate too well in pinyin.

My Chinese name is a phonetic variation of my real name only in Cantonese. When Cantonese - especially in HK - people say my name, they mispronounce it in such a way that it means "tiger". Given that my first 8 trips to China involved teaching or at least demonstrating kung fu to Chinese people, for which they still like me, it stuck as a kind of a joke.

Doesn't work in pinyin since this mispronunciation has a completely different meaning, and the word for tiger is different too. A shame.

George, we are supposed to exchange the bad bad words on m'kay! 

George, we are supposed to exchange the bad bad words on m'kay!

No. Robocop is supposed to do that. Besides, a Well Organised Militery McKay Up would then become WOMMU, which doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

I'm not going to argue. I'll tell the boys on you 

Ask a Chinese person to sort out the name for you. Looking up the name generator thingy can give very dodgy names - and you don't want him to lose face either.  My Chinese friends gave me my name before I arrived here - He2 Shu1 Yuan4.  I am known by this by most of my Chinese mates.  He Laoshi, He Jiejie, and Shu Yuan by a couple of women friends.  Every Chinese person who hears it says it is a beautiful name - so I get undeserved kudos and a positive impression right off. It means educated and refined gentlewoman in Chinese!!   (In Japanese the characters mean Princess)

Ask someone who KNOWS what they are doing to find the name for you.  A dumb name is worse than no name.

Robo-Cop?

There's a Robo-Cop? 

No, there isn't. And I hope there doesn't have to be one. Hoping those who like those words will be sparing in their use, and those who don't like them will be open-minded.

'Course, I'm also hoping the Easter Bunny will bring me a new Maserati and a new pair of 17-year-old identical Korean twin girls. But still...

Fubar was a term we used quite often when I was in the Navy except we used "beyond all repair" as the meaning.
Brings back old memories......

Ok....
 Since some have brought up military terminology here's one.
On my first ship I worked the the repair dept. doing valve repair and pump repair so accurate mesurements were very important !
 We had a universal standard of measure which we used all of the time. It was a BBCH. Now,I'm curious to see if anyone knows it's meaning. Fact is,I still use it today!

Teleplayer may know.....Hey!  TP...what's the meaning???