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When an idea goes international, sometimes parts of that idea are tricky to translate.

This is especially common when it comes to names. Like the name of something in the original

country gets phonetically translated instead of actually translated. So Ben.

Yes.

You recently told me your name from your Chinese language class.

I did.

What is it?

Jung Pinsen, which it's been a while since I took Mandarin, and I have no idea what that

actually means, or I can't really remember, but my instructor gave it to me because Jung

Pinsen sounds a little bit like Ben Johnson, right?

Sure.

And I also know somebody else when he came to the States from Taiwan, he had the name

Jingza. And so when he came here, he took the name Jingzhe. Because even though it doesn't

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