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Mar 8, 2014 20:18
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It's going to take that guy forever to fill out forms now.
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Mar 8, 2014 23:25
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paragon1 posted:It's going to take that guy forever to fill out forms now.
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Mar 9, 2014 02:28
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There's a pharmacist near my office named Jyldyz. Not a terrible name, more like a common name from somewhere else (Жылдыз, apparently) Romanized in a confusing way.
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Mar 9, 2014 16:04
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flakeloaf posted:There's a pharmacist near my office named Jyldyz. Not a terrible name, more like a common name from somewhere else (Жылдыз, apparently) Romanized in a confusing way. Is it related to the Turkish name Yıldız?
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Mar 9, 2014 22:01
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Is it related to the Turkish name Yıldız? Quite possibly. The Russian pronunciation sounds very similar, though the J is much harsher. Djeeldeez is a little easier for me as a latinization, but honestly there's no good way to approximate "bl" in latin characters.
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Mar 10, 2014 01:57
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VogeGandire posted:I work with a guy named Steven. Last page, but this reminds me of a kid I went to school with. His name was Stevie Beebe (BEE-bee). I've never forgotten that. On the note of 'could have been', my parents were on the way to going with 'Summer Sky', 'Summer Rain', or 'Summer Rainbow' for me. Then my great-grandmother passed, and they gave me her first name as my middle name.  Much nicer, and now my brothers and I all have family names for middle names.
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Mar 10, 2014 03:43
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Of course it's New Zealand. We have some real corkers here. My boyfriend just started a job teaching music at a local high school and he told me one of the boys he's teaching is named Quipid. Quipid. Pronounced "cupid". I just don't understand why 
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Mar 10, 2014 06:52
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Aristophanes posted:Of course it's New Zealand. We have some real corkers here. My boyfriend just started a job teaching music at a local high school and he told me one of the boys he's teaching is named Quipid. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11217129 And a contribution.  Chief Dick Pickles.
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Mar 10, 2014 07:32
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Aristophanes posted:
There's a brand of shoes called Qupid.
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Mar 10, 2014 10:32
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I do informal education with kids so I see all sorts of 'special snowflake' names on a daily basis. The ones I remember are Ribbon, a boy called Archimedes (his dad called him Archie but his mum insisted on the full name), Marseilles (pronounced Marcy??), Sabre and a kid called Raphael, which would've been cool except he was short, chubby and wore nerd specs.
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Mar 10, 2014 14:43
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Octolady posted:Marseilles (pronounced Marcy??) Do those question marks indicate incredulity or uncertainty ? Was it pronounced mar-say ? Because if so, that's how you pronounce it.
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Mar 10, 2014 15:54
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Incredulity, it was definitely pronounced Mar-see, but the kid was with a nursery group and had a name tag, which is why I was confused. I assumed the parents wanted a common name but gave it a fancy spelling (like Fyonah or something). Even if it was Mar-say, that's still a pretty standout name where I'm from.  This name isn't terrible, but I did also work with a Hungarian dude called Zoltan 
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Mar 10, 2014 17:33
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Say Nothing posted:Chief Dick Pickles.  For some other bad ones I have encountered a Mr Ben Dover during high school and at the local church I have met an Amanda Love and the Coxhead family 
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Mar 10, 2014 18:35
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Full Metal Frostnova is changing his name back to what it was, saying it was a 'stupid, drunken mistake'. http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/294720/man-99-character-name-regrets-stupid-drunken-mistake
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Mar 11, 2014 23:28
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Went to McDonald's drive through, the guy at the window had a name tag that said Cutean.
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Mar 12, 2014 02:19
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I have now hosted a table for a man named Deeaan. Like, Dean, but with two e's and two a's for no loving reason at all.
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Mar 12, 2014 02:21
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GabrielAisling posted:Quite possibly. The Russian pronunciation sounds very similar, though the J is much harsher. Djeeldeez is a little easier for me as a latinization, but honestly there's no good way to approximate "bl" in latin characters. Actually, Y is pretty much the standard transliteration for the Russian letter Ы. Ж is usually written as ZH, and pronounced like the S in pleasure. It's hard to explain how Ы sounds, but it's kinda like a long "e" (like meet) or short "i" sound (like sit), depending on the word, but pronounced in the back of your mouth. Like I said, hard to explain.
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Mar 12, 2014 04:08
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Actually, Y is pretty much the standard transliteration for the Russian letter Ы. Ж is usually written as ZH, and pronounced like the S in pleasure. It's hard to explain how Ы sounds, but it's kinda like a long "e" (like meet) or short "i" sound (like sit), depending on the word, but pronounced in the back of your mouth. It's the close central unrounded vowel  (at least, some of the time)(Which is, admittedly, something that only really has meaning to linguists and other people who've studied phonetics) In terms of content: I recently ran into a woman named Gay, which surprised me at first, as a name.
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Mar 12, 2014 04:42
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Octolady posted:I do informal education with kids so I see all sorts of 'special snowflake' names on a daily basis. The ones I remember are Ribbon, a boy called Archimedes (his dad called him Archie but his mum insisted on the full name), Marseilles (pronounced Marcy??), Sabre and a kid called Raphael, which would've been cool except he was short, chubby and wore nerd specs. Archimedes is a fantastic name. I wish I was named Archimedes.
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Mar 12, 2014 04:49
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Sisters named Paisley Blue and Prairie Raine. Their mom got ~~spiritual~~ after high school.
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Mar 12, 2014 06:18
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Axiem posted:It's the close central unrounded vowel My aunt goes by Gay, it's short for Gabriel. She also has a grandson named Nixon. Oh New Zealand.
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Mar 12, 2014 07:41
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The school I work at has some...not really TERRIBLE names, just ones that can easily trip you up and are probably a pain to explain all the time. Usually what makes them difficult is that they're pronounced way differently than you would imagine they would be. For example, we have a Jaime ('himey'), a Coefy ('Sofie'), and an Undra ('andre'). Those aren't too bad, though, and it's not so hard to remember if you've been corrected once. The one kid who does have a terrible name, though, is a girl named Sailor Moon [lastname]. I feel kind of bad for her too, she's amazingly smart and is on a lot of school teams and such, but people always laugh at her when her name is announced.
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Mar 12, 2014 11:37
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of bees posted:
That's the standard pronunciation in Spanish-speaking countries. e: Also, I went to school with a boy called Andreas (pronounced Andre-us). Every single teacher we ever had seemed to pronounce it like Andrea's. It's not that uncommon a name, really. Lady Disdain has a new favorite as of 11:57 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Mar 12, 2014 11:55
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Istari posted:That's the standard pronunciation in Spanish-speaking countries. And is a super common name, too. Heck, the current Blue Beetle in the comics is named Jaime, and yes it's supposed to be pronounced that way.
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Mar 12, 2014 15:39
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Mar 14, 2014 08:51
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While reading a book on Salem, I ran into a family name that could be horrible or badass: Crowninshield
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Mar 14, 2014 09:02
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SO CLOSE to being Comisario de la Explosion
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Mar 14, 2014 22:00
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Friend that I haven't seen since grade school found me on Facebook. She has a daughter now. A daughter named "Jayd".
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Mar 14, 2014 22:10
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Axiem posted:I recently ran into a woman named Gay, which surprised me at first, as a name. "Gay" is actually not that uncommon a name. One of my friend's cousins is named Gay Israel [lastname]. I wish I could say his last name because it's pretty great combined with the two that come before it. Suffice to say he must have been teased a lot in school.
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Mar 14, 2014 22:44
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Blast Fantasto posted:Friend that I haven't seen since grade school found me on Facebook. She has a daughter now. A daughter named "Jayd". I went to high school with a boy called Jayd. He's in a death metal band now.
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Mar 14, 2014 22:52
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There was a client we had at my old job named Man Lee. He was a tiny little man who joked about his "big muscles". He was so cute...always smiling. His wife said she married him for his name. Another we had was a lady named Kim Chee. We always tried not to laugh when she would come in. I went to school with a girl named Gay Lisa (last name). She only went by Lisa...big surprise there!
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Mar 14, 2014 23:06
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princecoo posted:I visited my mother over the weekend and met one of her friends, who was looking after her 10 year old grand-daughter, who I also met. Similarly, a birth announcement popped up in my Facebook feed for the arrival of "... our darling Deja (pronounced like déjà vu but without the weird bit)." Weird bit. Uh-huh.
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Mar 17, 2014 11:32
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My mother swears she went to school with a girl named Theresa Green. Also, wmy parents owned a boat hire and apparently there was a detective Chris Kross who would go hire a boat to go fishing every once in a while. A friend of mine is a primry school teacher, and she has a running (and apparently totally correct so far) theory that any boys name that ends with "en" is terrible because those kids are automatically little bastards. ie Jayden, Kayden, Hayden, Raiden, Aiden, Broden, Bryden, Corben etc
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Mar 17, 2014 13:47
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princecoo posted:My mother swears she went to school with a girl named Theresa Green. I know a guy who named his kid Raiden, specifically after the dude from Mortal Kombat ...What's wrong with Theresa Green?
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Mar 17, 2014 14:33
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deadly_pudding posted:...What's wrong with Theresa Green? Trees are green.
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Mar 17, 2014 16:02
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In a part of the world where "a" is pronounced "err" I can see that being a problem.
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Mar 17, 2014 16:30
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Yeah, it's an accent thing. Some people will pronounce the name similar to "Treeza" (hence the joke) and in other parts of the world it would be "teh-reese-ah".
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Mar 17, 2014 16:48
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Im not sure if it would it be better or worse to be named after MGS Raiden or MK raiden.
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