Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140909201911/@comment-96.237.64.211-20140910011445

Zolnir wrote: 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.

Oh, and while there are some utterly stupid Chinese names that are given purely because the people are lazy (Imagine your parents giving you names that mean 'little dog' 'little pig' 'cow' and some are even dick jokes), times have been different from then. I agree with the first paragraph, I actually cringed a little when I first heard it. I'm Chinese and I have a good deal of knowledge about my culture and I can say for certain that Taiyang Xiao Long it is SO not how Chinese names traditional are. But hey, it's the RWBY world; tour laws don't apply to theirs -shrug-

The second paragraph was a bit offensive. Back then, parents named their boys embarrassing names like 'girl' and 'dog' because it was to protect them from getting snatched and sacrificed by demons (don't ask), not because they were lazy. I don't know if they still do it but if they do, I pity their sons.