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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’s never going back from this comment: he’s Mr. Dong forever now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 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.