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Spiderjelly posted:
If they're going to force people to adopt foreign names, the very least they could do is provide them with a book of baby names.
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Oct 23, 2013 01:48
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Some people take pride in their weird names.
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Oct 23, 2013 02:02
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Lotish posted:I teach some class in an elementary class room, and saw one of the labels as Getsumani, which just turns into "Get some money" in my head. Seems like a misspelling of the name Getsemani, which is Spanish for Gethsemane, the biblical garden in Jerusalem where Jesus and his followers prayed the night before he was crucified. 
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Oct 23, 2013 02:31
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I once dated a stupid woman with a stupid kid. She named her kid Galadriel.
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Oct 23, 2013 02:41
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I tangentially knew a guy named "Hymen Broch." Yeah, that's pronounced "broke"
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Oct 23, 2013 02:46
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flakeloaf posted:I can't be the only one who thinks this is nuts. You can learn pinyin in an afternoon; is the problem the Western teachers or the ones these students will eventually meet in a professional capacity? The tonality of Chinese is difficult for many, and Mandarin has certain sounds that don't exist in English, “úCfor example. I speak Chinese, but the business people that they will deal with in their work probably won't. quote:I would feel awful if I called someone chink all day. To be clear, I don't let them keep these names. quote:If they're going to force people to adopt foreign names, the very least they could do is provide them with a book of baby names. But...but..I want to be creative!
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Oct 23, 2013 02:50
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flakeloaf posted:I can't be the only one who thinks this is nuts. You can learn pinyin in an afternoon; is the problem the Western teachers or the ones these students will eventually meet in a professional capacity? It seems to me to be pretty common for people to adopt "American" names when working with Americans, because it just ends up easier to say "Call me Raj" than "My name is Rajavendrakuthrapali". It seems pretty reasonable most of the time, even though it sometimes ends up with wacky names like "Pimple" and "Princess". Also: Chinese phonology is hard if you're not used to it.
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Oct 23, 2013 03:58
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God Of Paradise posted:I once dated a stupid woman with a stupid kid. If my dad had his way, that would've been my name. My mom put her foot down, so I'm named after Prince Valiant's wife instead.
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Oct 23, 2013 04:12
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Crow Jane posted:If my dad had his way, that would've been my name. My parents were leaning towards Tolkien names as well. But my grandmother threatened to sever ties if they did. So instead of being named after an awesome character from an awesome series, I'm named after a saint  
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Oct 23, 2013 04:27
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Istari posted:My parents were leaning towards Tolkien names as well. But my grandmother threatened to sever ties if they did. So instead of being named after an awesome character from an awesome series, I'm named after a saint  Speaking as this thread's resident unusual-name-haver, it's not all it's cracked up to be. There's something to be said for names that people can actually pronounce when they read them. I mean, you don't have to name your kid John Smith, but something like Celebrimbor is a little out there. And there are some pretty wacky saint names to, by the way. There's anything from Abanoub to Michael to Zephaniah.
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Oct 23, 2013 06:11
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Beardless posted:
Yeah, but I take offence at the very fact that I'm named after someone who is only known because they supposedly (read: didn't) perform miracles. It's crap, and it makes me quite angry. And, despite the fact that my name isn't that uncommon, I still had to deal with 12 years of substitute teachers mispronouncing it, and having to spell it out 5 times before people get it right (and they still spell it wrong as often as not).
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Oct 23, 2013 06:28
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Oct 23, 2013 09:17
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Does his name actually end there or did the person typing it just give up?
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Oct 23, 2013 13:32
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flakeloaf posted:Does his name actually end there or did the person typing it just give up? 
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Oct 24, 2013 02:20
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Are you serious? There's really an NFL hall of famer named Dick Butkus? I mean I know I'm being a little juvenile here but come on.
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Oct 24, 2013 04:42
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InEscape posted:Are you serious? There's really an NFL hall of famer named Dick Butkus? I mean I know I'm being a little juvenile here but come on. Huh, I saw a comedian (named Kermet) do a joke about that guy just this week.
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Oct 24, 2013 05:43
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Athletes with silly names? Why, yes I have.   Those two should really get together.
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Oct 24, 2013 08:12
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Axiem posted:It seems to me to be pretty common for people to adopt "American" names when working with Americans, because it just ends up easier to say "Call me Raj" than "My name is Rajavendrakuthrapali". It seems pretty reasonable most of the time, even though it sometimes ends up with wacky names like "Pimple" and "Princess". For a while I worked at a chain of Korean dry cleaners where 90% of the employees were Korean Americans, and often they would adopt "American" names as their nicknames that they just had all the non-Korean customers call them to simplify things. Sometimes they were close phonetically to their real names, like my boss's name was Bu, and he went by Bruce (or Bill, sometimes with the right person). Some of them had nothing to do with their own names. One day one of the workers, a nice young woman I hadn't really talked much with came up to me and asked me if I knew what the name "Susan" meant, and if it was a nice name. I had to try to explain to her that most English names don't really have "meanings" behind them, and often come from other languages. I recommended she find a baby name book.
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Oct 24, 2013 09:02
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Seriously, Mormons name their kids the strangest goddamned things. Aquanetta? Really? Weird semi-confession: when I was a kid, my mother had a coworker/friend named Aquanetta, and I heard her name enough that it still sounds more or less "normal" to me.  (Not that I'd ever use it for a kid, but it doesn't make my WOOP WOOP BULLSHIT NAME! sensors go off, if that makes any sense?) I believe the Aquanetta in question was actually black and not Mormon, and she'd be in her 60's now, which if Google is to believed would make her older than Aqua Net hairspray. Still, talk about a name that's aged poorly...
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Oct 24, 2013 09:29
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Choco1980 posted:I had to try to explain to her that most English names don't really have "meanings" behind them, and often come from other languages. I recommended she find a baby name book. "Susan" is the diminutive, English derivation of the name "Susannah", which in turn is the Anglicisation of the Greek name "Sousannah", which is in turn the Greek version of the Hebrew name "Shoshannah", meaning "lily/rose" (the word it comes from, "shoshan", is interchangeable). So because many English names do come from other countries, they're actually more likely to have meanings, even if that meaning is something as simple as "son of Greg" or "born on the pine-covered hill".
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Oct 25, 2013 00:39
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While that's really interesting, in a sociolinguistics sense it's generally not true. I mean, yes, they can be translated to mean things, but parents are (generally) picking names based on how it sounds, family history, friends, celebrities, etc. Few parents give their kids names associated with semantic meanings because they want that meaning to represent their child. Certainly not names like "Susan" which has undergone so much semantic bleaching (which isn't reaaaaally the right term for this but it's close enough) that it just means "a first name" to almost everyone. Tldr there's a difference between names having meanings you can look up and names activating nodes associated with those meanings. Just like "nematode" ("nemata", 'thread' + "-ode", 'resembling') doesn't really mean "threadlike" to most people, it's just a type of worm.
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Oct 25, 2013 01:37
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Oct 25, 2013 01:40
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Vadun posted:Local bakery started putting birthday cakes they do on Facebook Do you live in Anchorage by any chance? My cousin's second son is named Jaxson, spelled just like that. Their eldest is named Caele (pronounced "kale" like the vegetable), so bad news on all fronts. EDIT: Wait, no, it's spelled Jaxon. Still. Not awesome that there are more badly spelled Jacksons about. ButWhatIf has a new favorite as of 02:52 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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Oct 25, 2013 02:45
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Jonathan. I haven't met one yet that wasn't a cowardly shithead
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Oct 25, 2013 03:19
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Lol Robert!
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Oct 26, 2013 03:01
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Tonight I waited a table for one David Nyygaa. Calling out that I had a table ready for Mr. Nyygaa and his party was pretty funny.
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Oct 26, 2013 05:42
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The La-a and Absidee myths have made it to the UK, according to peopke I met tonight. gently caress.
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Oct 26, 2013 15:41
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bringmyfishback posted:The La-a and Absidee myths have made it to the UK, according to peopke I met tonight. gently caress. They've been here a while, I think. I've definitely heard it before, though probably only once or twice.
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Oct 26, 2013 17:20
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But what about Syphilis, Orangello and Lemonjello? And this guy? 
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Oct 27, 2013 00:41
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Well, really, what can you do if it's already on his birth certificate and other documents? (And, unfortunate pun aside, what kind of rear end in a top hat parent puts "peacock" in their kid's name anyway?) Sham bam bamina! has a new favorite as of 02:04 on Oct 27, 2013 |
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Oct 27, 2013 02:01
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Sham bam bamina! posted:(And, unfortunate pun aside, what kind of rear end in a top hat parent puts "peacock" in their kid's name anyway?) It can be a surname.
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Oct 27, 2013 05:51
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It can be a surname.
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Oct 27, 2013 15:49
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Channel surfing doubletake
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Oct 28, 2013 23:59
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I certainly am filled with discomfort looking at her, that's for sure.
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Oct 29, 2013 01:16
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I had a Phat Ho write a check to me once when I was working retail
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I haven't gone all the way back in the thread to see if anyone has posted some of the legit dumb names people have given their children here in New Zealand: Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii Number 16 Bus Shelter Midnight Chardonnay I've never met these children personally, but I have no reason to believe these names aren't real. Speaking of real, I remember a news piece being done several years back about a couple fighting for the right to name their son 4Real (pron. 'for real') but it got rejected since you're not allowed to have numerals in a name. I also have a friend named Justice which in and of itself is not a hugely weird name, but it's currently a banned name here in NZ, since 'Justice' is a title. She was lucky enough to be named before the ban. There was a girl at my high school called Aleckz, pron. 'Alex'. Filipinos have a habit of naming their kids fairly odd names. Another girl's name is Christienne, pron. 'Christian', and yet another girl's name is Chavez, just like Hugo Chavez. My Filipino aunty fell into the common obsession of naming all your children starting with the same letter, so my cousins are Kenneth, Karen, Kaiser, and Karlo. For a bonus, one of my friends in primary school said on several occasions that it would be cool to have a son called Magnetism.
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Oct 29, 2013 01:28
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Grading papers the other day, I ran into a Kristyonna. She did not pass the quiz.
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canyoneer posted:I had a Phat Ho write a check to me once when I was working retail
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