"tung."
[snickering]
one day in seventh grade, my health class teacher asked each student to share his or her middle name.
"your middle name is tongue? what?"
"t-u-n-g. it's a romanization of the middle character of my asian name."
the correct pinyin is actually "dong," but my parents misspelled it on my birth certificate, so instead of being a j.d.
i am a j.t.
and probably for the best.
jonathan dong yu.
"jon, dong yu forget about me."
nate dong.
the third character of my asian name means "rise."
jon dong rise – hybrid name.
if my parents misspelled it "dung" – floaters!