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Chen responds, "You talk funny boy," and chastises Walker for his ignorance of Chinese custom, which reverses the conventions of European patronymics by putting the last name first. Patronymics, which Sanudo always gives, have generally been omitted in these translations, and Sanudo's somewhat variable spelling of patrician family names is normalized to the spelling used in the indices of the published edition. Both came out with their own monikers in adolescence: they replaced their first names with feminine ones and their patronymics with place names, and bound together the new names, family-romance style, with the particle of nobility. |
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