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stubblyhead posted:If there's a lot if Mormons in Las Vegas (which honestly surprises me a lot) that kind of explains the one minor bad guy named Nephi in New Vegas. Were Mormons upset at all about that, or did it not hit their radar really? It was actually the Mormons that pushed the mob out of Vegas.
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stubblyhead posted:If there's a lot if Mormons in Las Vegas (which honestly surprises me a lot) that kind of explains the one minor bad guy named Nephi in New Vegas. Were Mormons upset at all about that, or did it not hit their radar really? Don't be silly; Mormons have no time for video games what with all the weird churching and getting molested by church elders
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Astrofig posted:Don't be silly; Mormons have no time for video games what with all the weird churching and getting molested by church elders Actually that's Protestants and Catholics, respectively.
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You clearly didn't grow up around any Mormons. They are many odd things about them and the religion, but molestyness is not one of them.
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We had Mormon next-door neighbors when I was growing up (no strange names, alas), and they were awesome neighbors. In fact, pretty much every Mormon I've met in a social setting has ranked among the nicest people I've ever met. (We just don't talk religion or sex)
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There are some Mormon Mohawks around here, which seems really weird.
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My neighbours met some Mormons when they were new in town. First they were invited to a picnic in the park, and later to a threesome. They politely declined these kind offers.
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Stoatbringer posted:My neighbours met some Mormons when they were new in town. First they were invited to a picnic in the park, and later to a threesome. They politely declined these kind offers. This seems a bit out of character for Mormons, except I guess for the polygamous part.
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Tayla. This was Boston, I guess her parents decided to go phonetic.
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Highlights from my daughter's yearbook that just came in: DixieAnna, Kateleigh, Greleigh, Bladen, Ti'arra, Za’ondre. And my favorite sibling pair, Ja’wuon’tae and Carl'Tae. Bladen has got to be the worst though. Christ.
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fullroundaction posted:Bladen has got to be the worst though. Christ. 
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Poor Zayden Zander Dragon-Slayer. Only has 3 likes.  Apparently, the only book by him he's got out right now is how to remove acne. 
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Just saw a Jakyron. No idea how it's pronounced.
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Istari posted:Just saw a Jakyron. No idea how it's pronounced. My guess is like Acheron.
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fullroundaction posted:Highlights from my daughter's yearbook that just came in: Bladen is terrible, but I think Greleigh is worse. How would you even pronounce that? Graily? Grelly?
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Antivehicular posted:Bladen is terrible, but I think Greleigh is worse. How would you even pronounce that? Graily? Grelly? It's a Welsh name, you pronounce it Hannah.
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Wonder how teachers feel when they run their eyes down the roll for a new class. Amusement and dread?
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My mother in law was a primary school teacher before she retired, and she definitely had to take a few parents aside during the latter years of her career to explain things like why little Swastika might need to use a different name to go to school in Australia.
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Memento posted:My mother in law was a primary school teacher before she retired, and she definitely had to take a few parents aside during the latter years of her career to explain things like why little Swastika might need to use a different name to go to school in Australia. I'm training to be a primary school teacher in Australia, and the most interesting names I've seen so far have been creative spellings of common names. I'm rather disappointed.
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Tree Bucket posted:Wonder how teachers feel when they run their eyes down the roll for a new class. Amusement and dread? There is nothing worse than seeing a hilarious name and knowing that an hour later you'll have to say it out loud for first-day attendance. It takes Zen levels of concentration not to laugh.
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Tree Bucket posted:Wonder how teachers feel when they run their eyes down the roll for a new class. Amusement and dread? Mostly eye rolls, some amusement, and very little dread. In U.S public schools the disruptive kids with poo poo home life just get passed off to the Special Ed. and BD classrooms. Which was cool until the combined the special education and the behavioral discipline kids into one impossible group.
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Istari posted:Just saw a Jakyron. No idea how it's pronounced. "Ted"
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trauma llama posted:Mostly eye rolls, some amusement, and very little dread. In U.S public schools the disruptive kids with poo poo home life just get passed off to the Special Ed. and BD classrooms. Which was cool until the combined the special education and the behavioral discipline kids into one impossible group. Huh. Perhaps that's how it works in your county or state, but that has not been my experience. Challenging names are part of the job in my district, but I don't dread them. It just takes me a while, and lots of corrections, to get it right. For instance, Nimco says her name is pronounced Neem Ow, and I'd been getting it wrong half the year. Doh. I once had a class with two Summers and a Trixie. One of the Summers came to class from lunch, complaining that some bitch told her "Summer is a stripper name!" I said that I didn't think so, then had to bite my tongue to not say, "Now Trixie on the other hand..."
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Silent c, what the gently caress
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Phlegmish posted:Silent c, what the gently caress My first thought was maybe she's Hmong, because the usual romanization scheme for Hmong uses a consonant at the end of a syllable to indicate tone, but that doesn't look like a Hmong name. Maybe it's one of those things where it's not actually silent in her language but she's sick of trying to explain it to people who 90% of the time won't pronounce it right anyway so she just drops it. Source: my mother can't pronounce foreign words to save her life, so the reaction when she tries to say someone's name is basically "good enough".
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I googled this because I was curious. She's probably Somali. The "c" represents a voiced pharyngeal approximant, which is a sound that occurs in Somali but not many other languages. Most English speakers would have trouble differentiating it from the vowel that follows. To me it sounds a lot like the Arabic ع (ayn), which is very difficult for non-native speakers to get and is usually just replaced by a vowel (e.g. "عArab" contains an ayn at the beginning, but we don't pronounce it in English).
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I should've known better, but I listened to this while at work. My coworker had to ask what I was looking at. I'd complain to tag this literally as  , but...
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Florida Betty posted:I googled this because I was curious. She's probably Somali. The "c" represents a voiced pharyngeal approximant, which is a sound that occurs in Somali but not many other languages. Most English speakers would have trouble differentiating it from the vowel that follows. To me it sounds a lot like the Arabic ع (ayn), which is very difficult for non-native speakers to get and is usually just replaced by a vowel (e.g. "عArab" contains an ayn at the beginning, but we don't pronounce it in English). Yup, you got it! I suspect there are a lot of students who just shrug and say "close enough." Gaelle and Cheick, for instance. My favorite student name so far was Guy Hamburger, mostly because he showed up on the attendance list as Hamburger Guy.
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aequorea posted:My favorite student name so far was Guy Hamburger, mostly because he showed up on the attendance list as Hamburger Guy. This is my new favorite post in this thread.
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Istari posted:I'm training to be a primary school teacher in Australia, and the most interesting names I've seen so far have been creative spellings of common names. I'm rather disappointed. How many ways can you spell Bruce?
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aequorea posted:My favorite student name so far was Guy Hamburger, mostly because he showed up on the attendance list as Hamburger Guy. Too bad cloning machines don't exist yet, or else we'd be able to have five of him.
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Am reading Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, which is about Mormon fundamentalism, and he mentions a guy named Oramel. That would be a great product nane for a number of imaginary items...
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Jerry Cotton posted:How many ways can you spell Bruce? Brews, Broos, Bhruis...
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