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pug wearing a hat posted:There's a real estate agent here named John John. Every time I see one of his signs I laugh. I went to high school with an Adam Adams.
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Mescal posted:Wait, if not Kristoff, how do you pronounce it? And seriously, what's with the Zs? You've got to admit somebody made a mistake with the thing about the Zs. As I said, it's a Polish name. It's pronounced, roughly, "krshyshtoff", except the "sh" sounds are a bit harsher, and everything sorta flows together, so it's only two syllables. Someone who knows more about phonetics might be able to explain that better. Basically, z's in Polish have a similar effect, when put after "s"'s and "c"'s, as an h in English, except not as soft. e: also, after the "r", you more or less pronounce the two together. Tritanomalicious has a new favorite as of 13:22 on Mar 21, 2013 |
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Mar 21, 2013 13:14
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This is what you get for stealing all of the consonants, Poland. Nobody can pronounce your names now.
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The news mentioned a guy who just escaped from an institution in my province. His name was James John Jackson.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:This is what you get for stealing all of the consonants, Poland. Nobody can pronounce your names now. This is very true - my simple Paul = Paweł gets slaughtered all the time (my friends pronouncation of it ranges from Pavel to Pafeu) There's an India at my place of work and apparently it's not an uncommon English name. I've also got a friend that picked her own (confirmation) name - Hermenegilda. My fathers name is Karol (pronounced Carol). Maria is also a male name in Poland.
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Mar 21, 2013 20:20
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Celery Face posted:The news mentioned a guy who just escaped from an institution in my province. His name was James John Jackson. Holy crud, that name is hosed. UP.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:This makes me think of women who change their names when they get married and end up with double names: I know a girl who, after marriage became Mrs Kelly Kelly. I follow a girl on instagram, who is a model/gogo dancer, whose real first name is Dyamin. I'm guessing you pronounce it a bit like Diamond?
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Tritanomalicious posted:As I said, it's a Polish name. It's pronounced, roughly, "krshyshtoff", except the "sh" sounds are a bit harsher, and everything sorta flows together, so it's only two syllables. Someone who knows more about phonetics might be able to explain that better. You should go by "Crazy Stuff". Close enough, and memorable.
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Today at work I found a website that mentions a guy called Doid McCandlish. (He's the husband of a woman who works for an anti-bullying foundation, which is how I came across the info. Apparently their daughter wrote "a research-backed memoir about how Jesus Christ helped her overcome girl bullying.") "Doid" doesn't seem to be a typo; the name as a whole gets hits. I can't think of how to pronounce it -- to rhyme with "droid," I guess?
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Mar 22, 2013 02:33
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Florida Betty posted:You should go by "Crazy Stuff". Close enough, and memorable. I actually do know several people who call me that. Also, some people who pronounce it "Kristoff" often deem me to be pissed off.
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A friend of mine's wife works at an afterschool program in the inner city, and most of the kids are 3rd to 5th grade. One of the kids was named Prince Naseem - as his first name. If the other kids called him 'Naseem', he would correct them every time, without fail - "It's 'Prince Naseem'.". 
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Red posted:A friend of mine's wife works at an afterschool program in the inner city, and most of the kids are 3rd to 5th grade. One of the kids was named Prince Naseem - as his first name. That kid is going to have a lovely time all throughout school . I once worked with a tir, pronounced tear.
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Jeesis posted:That kid is going to have a lovely time all throughout school . Were they going for Tyr? 
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Visiting my dad and on the news was a local school principal named Steven B. Cummings
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Mar 22, 2013 23:16
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Penn Jillette named his daughter, Moxie Crimefighter and his son, Zolten. What a douchebag.
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Celery Face posted:Penn Jillette named his daughter, Moxie Crimefighter and his son, Zolten. What a douchebag. Zolten is his wife's maiden name. I don't know if that makes it better or worse, though.
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RazorBunny posted:Zolten is his wife's maiden name. I don't know if that makes it better or worse, though.
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:Last name names are pretty common, and I like the sound of Zoltan. It's also a common Hungarian first name - well, Zoltán, with a long 'a' sound, but standardised name spellings are so passé nowadays anyway - and it sounds pretty hardcore to an English speaker. I feel for poor Moxie, though. There's a girl at my university named Xueting Wang. (It's pronounced kind of like 'shway-ting.') I've heard no less than three teachers pronounce it at roll-call as "Sweating Wang." One of them still says it the same way every week, even after she corrected him. I guess it doesn't count because it's not a terrible name at all, it just gets terribly mishandled.
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Celery Face posted:Penn Jillette named his daughter, Moxie Crimefighter and his son, Zolten. What a douchebag. It's not as bad as what Jason Lee called his kid (Pilot Inspektor).
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My daughter's middle name is Brynhildr. Normal first name, though, because my wife is only slightly insane for allowing me to be involved in naming our children.
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I must admit I, personally, am not particularly fond of people who give their kids last name surnames, like Jackson, or McKenzie, Quaid, etc. It's especially bad when they're called something like Richardson James, and you wonder whether their name has been listed backwards, as in a class roll-call. I also don't like the trend of calling girls really ugly dweeb sounding guy names, like Daryl or Dylan (hate those two names anyway but they're possibly even worse on girls.) Thai names often feature the word "porn" relatively prominently. I believe it means "jewel" "blessed" or "precious," but of course, to English speaking people it's pretty unintentionally hilarious. I didn't really encounter any Porntips or other porn derivatives in Thailand but I did meet a girl called Babe. I also work with a Skylen, which is a name I consider a pretty serious abomination. The "Harry [noun]" name isn't nearly as weird when you don't have an American/Canadian accent, owing to the fact that "Harry" in British or Australian English doesn't rhyme with "Hairy." As a consequence, all the "Harry [noun]" names in the thread confused me for a little bit. Richard [noun] is MUCH worse than Harry [noun] because at least it doesn't depend on what accent you have. My parents knew a Richard Face.
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Mar 24, 2013 02:54
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As a troubled youth i had to share a bunkbed in rehab with a guy named Real Bureau. Prounounced "ree-al".
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Batman.
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Terrible names I have encountered: James Bond Separately: Firstname James-Bond (he has now started going by Bond-James) A guy with the first name 'Trojan' Sidenote on Irish names: until I started dating an English guy (who kept asking me how to pronounce the names of people in his classes), I didn't appreciate how tricky Irish names can be to English speakers. Some prime examples being: Sadhbh (pronounced 'sive'), Tadhg ('tigue'), Niamh ('neev'), Padraig ('poric'), Aodh (sounds like 'eh', basically), Naoise ('neesha'), Fionnabhair ('finavair'), Ailbhe ('alva'), Gráinne ('gronya'), Dearbhla ('dervla'). None of which are bad names, they just sound completely different than you might expect. Popcyan has a new favorite as of 21:49 on Mar 24, 2013 |
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Mar 24, 2013 05:43
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eithedog posted:This is very true - my simple Paul = Paweł gets slaughtered all the time (my friends pronouncation of it ranges from Pavel to Pafeu) Correct me if I'm wrong (and I should know this, I'm half Polish), but isn't Polish written in Latin letters basically as a "gently caress you" to Russia, even though it would look simpler in Cyrillic?
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Casual Male XL Fan posted:Batman. I knew two girls in high school with the last name of Batman!
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Sunshine89 posted:Correct me if I'm wrong (and I should know this, I'm half Polish), but isn't Polish written in Latin letters basically as a "gently caress you" to Russia, even though it would look simpler in Cyrillic? I should probably know this, too, considering I was born there. Wikipedia says Polish started being written with the Latin alphabet in the 12th century and Cyrillic started being used in the 10th, so it's entirely possible. I don't think a single member of my family has a good thing to say about Russians to this day. e: Doing a little bit of research, I don't think Polish was ever written in Cyrillic, but I have no expertise in this matter at all. This is all just lazy Googling. Tritanomalicious has a new favorite as of 07:05 on Mar 24, 2013 |
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Popcyan posted:Sidenote on Irish names: until I started dating an English guy (who kept asking me how to pronounce the names of people in his classes), I didn't appreciate how tricky Irish names can be to English speakers. Some prime examples being: Sabhdh (pronounced 'sive'), Tadgh ('tigue'), Niamh ('neev'), Padraig ('poric'), Aodh (sounds like 'eh', basically), Naoise ('neesha'), Fionnabhair ('finavair'), Ailbhe ('alva'), Gráinne ('gronya'), Dearbhla ('dervla'). None of which are bad names, they just sound completely different than you might expect. This. Lots of Irish names, and words for that matter, are spelled in a way that is really counter-intuitive for other English speakers. Case in point, knew a girl named Sinead in high school. Every single substitute teacher we had insisted on mangling her name when they read roll. Heard more variations of 'sinnyad' and 'sine-ad' than I care to count. You'd think at least some of them would know who Sinead O'Connor was and just pronounce my classmates name the same way, but nope.
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The only excuse for this poo poo is if Ireland started using the Roman alphabet before everybody else. A cursory wiki search didn't tell me the history of the alphabet used for Irish. Can somebody give me some insight? Cause if "Sabhdh" is supposed to be a transliteration based on phonics, somebody's gotta burn. (I'm going to assume that the various languages went from runes or... heiroglyphs or whatever into alphabets then evolved separately. It may be insensitive of me, but if a language evolved to spell a word "Sabhdh" then it must have gotten high along the way.)
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Mescal posted:The only excuse for this poo poo is if Ireland started using the Roman alphabet before everybody else. A cursory wiki search didn't tell me the history of the alphabet used for Irish. Can somebody give me some insight? Cause if "Sabhdh" is supposed to be a transliteration based on phonics, somebody's gotta burn. (I'm going to assume that the various languages went from runes or... heiroglyphs or whatever into alphabets then evolved separately. It may be insensitive of me, but if a language evolved to spell a word "Sabhdh" then it must have gotten high along the way.) poo poo, I spelt Sadhbh wrong in my post, which just adds an extra layer of confusion.. Pronunciation: 's' is the same as in English. 'a' is short (long vowels have a fada) - like the 'a' in 'act'. 'dh' is a 'y' sound, and 'bh' is a 'v'. So altogether Sadhbh = 's-a-y-v'. Tadhg is another one which looks difficult, but again the 'dh' is just a 'y', and the other letters are the same as in English, making it 't-a-y-g'. Irish is actually pretty logical, it's just some sounds are associated with different letters than in English. http://www.omniglot.com/writing/irish.htm If you aren't bored to tears yet, this page has a history of Irish alphabets, and a basic pronunciation guide. (better pronunciation guide here - http://www.standingstones.com/gaelpron.html ) Fun fact - Ogham is the original alphabet of Irish, and there's a theory it was invented so the English/Romans wouldn't be able to understand it. Gaeilge: loving with the English for two thousand years. Anyway, back to noteworthy names: I met a guy last year called Ptolemy Donovan. I'm still not sure if that's terrible or awesome. I also used to know an American woman called Christmas.
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Looking through a silly website about bad photographs, I find this, http://youarenotaphotographer.com/fauxtogs-make-kids-cry/ , this lady named her kids Rayne and Shyne. I hate cutesy matching names at the best of times, but they way they've spelled "shine" just rubs me the wrong way. Another slightly oddly pronounced Irish names, I know a girl named Saoirse, I found a youtube video that I think does a pretty good job of pronouncing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOdLTAgeuuk
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bringmyfishback posted:I knew two girls in high school with the last name of Batman! This is not that unusual, apparently. There are five Batmans (Batmen?)in my university's system. I spoke with one who insisted on stressing the "Bat" so it sounded more like Batmin. Spoke with Brophy today. Common last name, terrible first name. He signed his emails "Bro".
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I went to high school with someone with the unfortunate last name of Gronendyke, pronounced in the worst way possible. They didn't get too much flak for it, but the previous grades might have been much worse. And almost every business in the town of Richmond, IN is under the thumb of one man. Here's one of his billboards:  This is the first time I've looked at it in years and I finally noticed the 800-RAPER on the left.
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Poison_Eggs posted:As a troubled youth i had to share a bunkbed in rehab with a guy named Real Bureau. Prounounced "ree-al". It's a pretty common French-Canadian first name. I have a buddy who named his son that and it's not really an issue here. I ran into my wife's ex-classmate the other day. Her name is Treasure. She works at Hooters now.
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A lot of English last names have their origin based on where someone lived, or what someone did, or whose kid they were, way back when they started having enough people around to have to differentiate between, let's say, John who was the son of Richard (John Richardson), and John who thatched roofs (John Thatcher). Which leaves the obvious question: How did the Rapers get their last name? Because I hope it was from planting canola.
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Phy posted:A lot of English last names have their origin based on where someone lived, or what someone did, or whose kid they were, way back when they started having enough people around to have to differentiate between, let's say, John who was the son of Richard (John Richardson), and John who thatched roofs (John Thatcher). Which leaves the obvious question: How did the Rapers get their last name? Because I hope it was from planting canola. Maybe a shift in the pronunciation of "reaper?" edit: I know, I know, 
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A guy applied to the place I worked at a few years back and his resume said his name was Max Hammer. I don't think I'd ever gently caress with that guy, regardless of what he looked like.
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TKIY posted:It's a pretty common French-Canadian first name. I have a buddy who named his son that and it's not really an issue here. Of course she does. The influence that names have on career and life choices is really fascinating. Lawyers named Crook, morticians named Coffin, etc. I work with a guy who is training to become an RCMP member and his last name is Sargeant.
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All on Black posted:The influence that names have on career and life choices is really fascinating. Lawyers named Crook, morticians named Coffin, etc. I work with a guy who is training to become an RCMP member and his last name is Sargeant. My mum's dentist is Dr. Meaney...
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All on Black posted:The influence that names have on career and life choices is really fascinating. Lawyers named Crook, morticians named Coffin, etc. I work with a guy who is training to become an RCMP member and his last name is Sargeant. Many years ago, I read the Horrible Histories book concerned the history of the English language (Wicked Words), and one of the bits that's always stuck with me is the alleged story of a boy called "Safety First" who grew up to become a doctor. Other names listed in the same chapter included "Neil Down" and "Luke Sharp".
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