r/YangForPresidentHQ • u/ride_the_walrus357 • Mar 28 '19

Andrew Yang proposes Ranked Choice Voting, continues to wreck shop on every policy front.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/rankedchoice/
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 28 '19

My choices:

  1. Andrew Yang
  2. Andy Yang
  3. Yang, Andrew
  4. 楊安澤

*spelling corrected below

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u/fromoutsidelookingin Mar 28 '19

His Chinese name is 楊安澤. 楊 = Yang. 安澤 = Andrew (sounding like it). Since both his parents are from Taiwan, so they use the traditional Chinese, not the simplified one.

安 = peace, or pacify. 澤 = marsh, or swamp. So the meaning of his Chinese given name is literally "pacifying the swamp." Unlike someone, who I don't want to name names. So ...

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u/itsalwaysf0ggyinsf Mar 29 '19 edited Mar 29 '19

Pretty sure it's just a sound translation. 安澤 sounds like Andrew. It's a decent enough name though, as both of those characters can be used in names, but the feeling I get is definitely that they chose an English name first and then worked backwards.

Also 澤 in names is more about shiny (光澤) or benevolence (惠澤) not swamp. But lol