'Woh Gwing'?

Posted:
Fri May 02, 2008 6:45 am
by kenichiku
Greetings for bloggings sake...Sorry just couldn't help but to butt in here for this entry. I don't know what dialect one of your editors used for building his romanized name but it kinda fell short for his Canto name (somebody seemed to have got it right for Mando though):
http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=17496&display_set=eng
This old-school extra slash stunt-guy's stage name is "He Shang" = "Monk"; don't you get it? Wouldn't "Woh Seung" work, perhaps? Those Chinese challenged who wish to verify can survey the character set for any film that directly translates the word 'monk' or 'abbot' in the title and you'll see what i mean. Cheers.

Good see you guys again.
Gwing? Shwing!

Posted:
Tue May 06, 2008 7:12 am
by kenichiku
...at least it's consistent.

Posted:
Tue May 06, 2008 12:27 pm
by dleedlee
Looks like some initial character table translation error maybe?
Chan Gwing-Chi / (陳尚志)
Gwing Chi-Gwoh / (å°šæ¢æˆˆ)
Gwing Ching / (å°šè
Gwing Schwing II

Posted:
Thu May 08, 2008 4:39 am
by kenichiku
Oh my, looks like you hit the jackpot there. 'Seung' (Canto) = 'Shang' (Mando) is the only pronunciation I know this word to be. As a kid, this Chinese school underachiever's still got the backhand & yardstick scars from overzealous Nazi-Chinese Catholic nuns to prove it (& you shoulda seen the damage I caused when armed with a calligraphy brush & vat of Indian ink on the whites of a nun's habit but that's another story, hehe).
Can you guys do a system-wide data edit & replace? I'm afraid 'Gwing' is bogus in this context....and I'm afraid there are more such words. A Gwing and a prayer, Buffalo Gwings, Gwingless Bat....the list goes on.

Posted:
Thu May 08, 2008 7:06 am
by Fan
Not sure if this is a similar case but I noticed that some actors with surname ä½™, they are "Chui" in the English db instead of "Yu". I doubt whether it's mixed up with another common surname å¾

Posted:
Thu May 08, 2008 9:40 pm
by dleedlee
If no one objects, I will convert Gwing to Seung, manually. Only Spencer Lam Seung-Yi seems to have a legitimate Gwing as an alias (Lam Gwing-Ye), according to the HKFA You Shoot, I Shoot entry.
http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng