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I Write Like… Viral Site
I copied and pasted my “My Strengths and Weaknesses as a Writer” post from this blog post to “I Write Like.” It gave me H.P. Lovecraft. A persuasive essay got me H.P. Lovecraft again. A paragraph from my creative fiction got me JK Rowling. A dark post-modern poem got me David Foster Wallace.
DFW ftw!
Categories: Autobiographical Stories, Viral Things
Tags: David Foster Wallace, H.P. Lovecraft, I Write Like, JK Rowling, viral sites
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We Giggle Behind Small Hands and No Speak Engrish
“Cho and Chang are both last names. They are both Korean last names. I am supposed to be Chinese. Me being named “Cho Chang” is like a Frenchman being named “Garcia Sanchez.”
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Apparently some Asian people got pissed because Cho Chang could “technically” be a Chinese first and last name. Rostad later stated in a comprehensive response that she knew, but sacrificed the details for a punchline.
Whatever criticism of racial stereotypes aside, Cho Chang is still a pretty shitty character and a pretty stupid name.
(As far as I know, no Chinese person romanizes Qiu as “Cho.” A more extreme analogy would be like spelling Hussein “Hoosayne.”)
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