[HiTech RedNeck]

Chung sounds like a Chinese name — Asians tend to take their learning more seriously than the average gringo.

Yet, there’s far more in common between Chinese and Japanese, than between English and either one.

[Cronos]

I don't know how to read either language and all I know is how to badly pronounce Banzai, Moshi-moshi and ohaio-gozama, dozo, but I think Chinese and Japanese are from different family trees -- the Japanese is more Tungushic, related to Korean rather than Chinese.

And the Chinese now right in modified Chinese, while the Japanese still retain the old Chinese script (Kanji) - of course the Japanese have 3 scripts - Kanji for old Japanese words, katakana for new words borrowed from other languages (Walkman, piku-niku) and hiragana for grammar.

I was once working on a project for storing this data on a database and it was crazy to me!

[muawiyah]

I hope you mean "culturally" because the English language and Chinese languages have much more in common than either has with the Japanese language.

Jus' the way it is although Japanese is quickly catching up by absorbing tens of thousands of English words.

Chung is a pretty common KOREAN name, and not often a CHINESE name in America, although there are Chinese and Koreans named Chung.

[DH]

“...Chung sounds like a Chinese name...”

I understand that the first laxative was invented by a Chinese man. I think his name was Hung Chow.