Working in the PRC has its occasional comedic rises...just received a mail from some factory bloke (or woman?) by the name of "Loris Chan". Trying to sell their range of whatnot...the only way to reply was:
loris |ˈlôris| noun ( pl. -rises ) a small, slow-moving nocturnal primate with a short or absent tail, living in dense vegetation in South Asia. • Genera Loris and Nycticebus, family Lorisidae, suborder Prosimii: the slender loris ( L. tardigradus) of southern India and Sri Lanka, and the slow loris (genus Nycticebus, two species) of Southeast Asia.ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French, perhaps from obsolete Dutch loeris ‘clown.’
It's bad to laugh when others are admirably appropriating your native language, but you have to at the choice of English names in the PRC.
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