Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140909201911/@comment-11188061-20140910010148

That's how you use Tai technically when you're referring to one generation above, but shit if no one does it because it's not even a name but a reference. Yang Xiao Long was totally fine if you use it alone, but add it another character who happens to be her father, whose name is almost exactly the same (and means exactly the same in Chinese) and everything suddenly sounds unoriginal and creepy and lazy as hell. No offense Mercen, but I treat namings very seriously. Obviously it's hard to come up with names that aren't out there already, but at the least I won't be so lazy as to go, 'Oh my name's Brian and I like it. From now on my first born will be Brian as well, and I don't care if she's a girl! It's easy!'.

Just imagine entire generations of people having the same or slight variation of the name 'Yang Xiao Long'. That just ain't right.