World News

2287 readers

157 users here now

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml

sovietsnake@lemmygrad.ml

ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml

Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong passed away today. (www.reuters.com)

submitted 3 months ago by muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

RIP

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] qwename@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

PSA: Comrade Nguyễn Phú Trọng's surname is Nguyễn, not "Trong", his first name is Phú Trọng, not Trong.

~~NYT also made the same mistake, by referring to him as "Mr. Trong"~~: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/world/asia/nguyen-phu-trong-dead.html

~~This would be like referring to Mao Zedong as "Dong" or "Mr. Dong".~~

I thought this was a mistake, but according to Vietnamese customs "Mr. Trong" or "Trong" is indeed a valid way to refer to Comrade Trong. This is a humiliating display in lack of investigation by myself.

The point about Mr. Dong still stands for Chinese names.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There’s no going back from this comment: he’s Mr. Dong forever now.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 months ago

It’s not even the goofiest name a communist leader has had. Stalin quite literally changed his birth name to, “Joe Steel”, like he’s some sort of cosplaying superhero.

If we can have a Joe Steel, then we can absolutely have a Mr. Dong.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh we should absolutely refer to him as Mr. Dong now.