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No, that is a totally different set of circumstances.
Hong Kong people will have their full Chinese names but frequently adopt an English name for convenience.
(Strangely, Peter and Wendy are the most common as Peter Pan was the first Western book translated into Cantonese).
For example you would know a man called Peter Yip whose Chinese name was Yip Peng Lee.
You would address him as Mr Yip, or, slightly informally as Peter. If you knew him well you could call him Lee, and if you were very close and had permission, Peng Lee.
Mao Tse Tung means Little Cat Hair.
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 This is so humorous and informative! I'm hurting of laughter! You definitely made my Monday!
Wamuti: Any man can be an island, but islands to need water around them!
Edmund Burke: No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Dalek Dave wrote: Mao Tse Tung means Little Cat Hair.
So, do friends call him "Pubic Hair"? 
Or, maybe Hairball?
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Wamuti wrote: (Jet Lee, Bruce Lee, ... etc)
They are all brothers!
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No, you are kidding! Right?
Wamuti: Any man can be an island, but islands to need water around them!
Edmund Burke: No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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They have the same last name
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Atcherley, Li Lian jie (Jet Li) and Lee Jun fan (Bruce Lee) do actually have the same first name (李), but we ignorant Westerners spell one of them wrong.
Gong Li confuses things even more, because Li is her forename, not her surname, and it's a completely different word (俐).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Li Lian jie (Jet Li) and Lee Jun fan (Bruce Lee)
You mean they are not called Jet Lee and Bruce Lee respectively??
Wamuti: Any man can be an island, but islands to need water around them!
Edmund Burke: No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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No, their real names are Jet Bruce and Lee Lee 
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Read em and weep. Falsehood's programmers believe about names.[^] There's precisely zero chance that any functional system could meet all the nasty edge cases the human race has invented.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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Truly a nice read. Number forty (40) might not be an assumption. People do have names. You gotta call someone something. 
Wamuti: Any man can be an island, but islands to need water around them!
Edmund Burke: No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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"Small surgery left consensus for favourable circumstance."(11)
Not to hard.
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Opportunity
Small Surgery - Op
left - port
consensus- unity
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Well done.
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Hello all,
At work I changed the predefined IE11 spell checker to English as I mostly write in English forums.
At home I need to switch from English to Spanish often.
Is there any way to do it in an easy way?
Using IE11 and Windows 7.
The only way I've found to change it is:
Tools --> Manage add-ons --> Spelling correction --> change the predefined one.
Is there any way to make it easier?
I've seen people in the Internet explaining how to do it in Windows 8 (changing the input OS language). But this is not working for me.
Any hint?
As always thank you in advance! 
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I think the easiest way would be to spell correctly the first time. Then you wouldn't need a spell checker... 
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! 
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Joan Murt wrote: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Your OOO's moved outside the box
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Take away his keyboard or at least hijack his T
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
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Well The easiest way is to have 2 laptops one for work with English default language and second for home wit Spanish language this way you don't have to change anything 
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Nah! probably a virtual machine would do it... the only PITA would be to need to stop one to run the other one... having two licenses of every single program...
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Nice one .. Hadn't thought of it that way..