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ritzy jeniveeve chrisbery kumson siblings samer and tamer sparkela christ candida laviticus christinique nickoles blade tabithas (male) adding to my collection of place names: russia teheran tanzania
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Vigilantly Vigorous posted:Friends coworker named his kid Ronin Ash Ketchum. Ronin, rhymes with Chopin.
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Oct 15, 2020 09:01
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Got an amber alert last night involving a dude named Prophet Marquis [Lastname]. Either the dude's parents really built up his sense of self-worth, or he's an insane person who legally changed his name because he thinks he's a French royal prophet. (Either way, gently caress that dude, I hope the kid he took is found.)
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Oct 16, 2020 16:05
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There was a Dr. I. Hulicka  that had an office near my school. Thankfully was a psychiatrist, not a ENT or gynecologist.
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Oct 18, 2020 18:16
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.... Zack Marlin suddenly passed away at the age of 34. He leaves behind his beautiful family, wife Megan, daughters Jerzi, Tinsley, and Rozalynn, and son Ronan as well as ....
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Oct 20, 2020 00:34
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A cool as hell last name: Mark Polymeropolous, from this article about intelligence staffers being terrified to gainsay Vladimir Putin or Russia in front of Trump Does anyone speak Greek and can say what that actually means, cause it sounds like it should mean "Plastic City"
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Oct 21, 2020 22:38
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Polymer means "many parts" referring to the chemical structure of polymers, they are formed from the combination of many component molecues called monomers (one part) into long chains. -polous I think is just indicative of a patronym, so "son of" like -vich or -s(s)on in other languages. So, I guess "Son of many parts" which is pretty mysterious and cool sounding also. Polis would be city. OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 22:44 on Oct 21, 2020 |
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Oct 21, 2020 22:41
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Does that mean his mother was a ~whore~ ?
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Oct 21, 2020 23:09
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It could also specifically mean son of a guy called polymer.
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Oct 21, 2020 23:10
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So his grandmother was the ~whore~ ?
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Oct 22, 2020 00:34
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His grandmother was doctor frankenstein.
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Oct 22, 2020 00:47
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Phy posted:A cool as hell last name: Mark Polymeropolous, from this article about intelligence staffers being terrified to gainsay Vladimir Putin or Russia in front of Trump I'm Greek (but only speak a little) and I thought the same thing. Hehehehe.
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Oct 22, 2020 06:46
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OwlFancier posted:His grandmother was doctor frankenstein. Uhh I think you'll find she was monster frankenstein  e: because the moral of the story was the doctor was the real monster. Also he got his license revoked for practicing necromancy, so he's not a doctor.
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Oct 22, 2020 07:22
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This isn't a bad name, but I stopped into a supermarket on a road trip several years ago and the cashier's name was Alpha Remington. That might be the most badass name I've ever heard. It sounds like an action hero.
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Oct 22, 2020 12:14
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I'm Greek (but only speak a little) and I thought the same thing. Hehehehe. I always assumed you were Irish
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Oct 22, 2020 13:26
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Phlegmish posted:I always assumed you were Irish Nope, not even a bit. Well, probably a bit somewhere, but no. Egyptian Greek and Welsh, mostly.
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Oct 22, 2020 13:55
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Nope, not even a bit. Well, probably a bit somewhere, but no. Egyptian Greek and Welsh, mostly. Can we request a name change for other goons? Flyytta Mcramsesgurnopolis.
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Oct 22, 2020 14:01
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Oh, I was gonna go with "Feta ferch Gurn" but I like that.
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Oct 22, 2020 14:04
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Are you Egyptian and Greek, or Egyptian Greek like Cleopatra? I didn't know the latter group was still around
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Oct 22, 2020 14:06
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Phlegmish posted:Are you Egyptian and Greek, or Egyptian Greek like Cleopatra? I didn't know the latter group was still around Yup, there's a Greek population in Alexandria today that somehow managed to stay through the Revolution, although they are obviously a couple thousand years beyond the Ptolemies by now. My grandmother's family comes from Alexandria, and according to 23andme I'm about 10% Macedonian in there specifically. No one in my family comes from any area that could be considered Macedonian, so that suggests intermarriage between a settler or emigrant with "native" Alexandrian Greeks. You can read about my most badass Alexandrian relative on Wikipedia! I never met him, but my mom says he wore a cape all the time and was probably autistic. His son unfriended me on Facebook because I swore too much! He also works for the NSA, so I'm fine with never speaking to him again. Um, so, I guess the answer to your question is "both"?
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OwlFancier posted:Polymer means "many parts" referring to the chemical structure of polymers, they are formed from the combination of many component molecues called monomers (one part) into long chains. -polous I think is just indicative of a patronym, so "son of" like -vich or -s(s)on in other languages. BTW thank you for the good-rear end answer. I was thinking about it this morning and it is just nuts how much of the English language is demystified once you start picking up all the Latin and Greek root words. Somehow despite seeing the word about a million times and taking an organic chem course in university, I didn't catch the sense of "poly" in it.
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Oct 22, 2020 20:20
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sticklefifer posted:This isn't a bad name, but I stopped into a supermarket on a road trip several years ago and the cashier's name was Alpha Remington. That might be the most badass name I've ever heard. It sounds like an action hero. It sounds like a razor. Or a vibrator.
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Oct 22, 2020 20:27
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46393501quote:Vocativ, a news and data website, published a piece in 2014 saying there were at that time 328 children in the US named "Abcde", according to the Social Security Administration.
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Oct 23, 2020 17:40
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IIRC, the name crops up a lot in Hawaii. Not enough to be common, but it's definitely regional. I would love to know why.
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Oct 23, 2020 23:12
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hyperhazard posted:IIRC, the name crops up a lot in Hawaii. Not enough to be common, but it's definitely regional. I would love to know why. Mr. Lobe posted:When I was a child I was visiting an aunt and uncle who live in Hawaii, my aunt being of Hawaiian descent. I saw an airline worker woman with a name tag that said ABCDE, and I told my aunt, without a bit of meanness in my soul, "hey, I think there was a printing error with that lady's nametag". I don't know if the worker heard it, but my aunt was mortified. I don't know how true that is, but there you go.
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Oct 24, 2020 01:37
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phyllip kabinet finest chitquita--i've seen chiquita, but idk where the extra t came from in this one poppy svelte ahdream theophilus mackful charmin--unfortunate last name jenious
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Oct 26, 2020 22:00
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What's wrong with Poppy? All those flower names are coming back into fashion, we have a crop of em in my family. Best surname around my town is Lickfold.
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Oct 26, 2020 22:11
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Agreed, Poppy seems perfectly normal. Than again, I feel the same about Theophilus, so take that as you will.
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Oct 26, 2020 22:46
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I recently learned that Richard Nixon took to his tricky ways as a means of getting back at one Dick Tuck and I love that google doesn’t wimp out and call him Richard:
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Oct 26, 2020 22:49
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Christianné 
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Oct 27, 2020 16:19
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DemonDarkhorse posted:candida No loving way did someone name their child after a yeast infection. How cruel.
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Oct 27, 2020 20:31
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prayer group posted:No loving way did someone name their child after a yeast infection. How cruel. There's a hotel in my city called the Don Candida and I laugh every loving time I see it.
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Oct 27, 2020 21:05
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prayer group posted:No loving way did someone name their child after a yeast infection. How cruel. No idea about how it relates to the infection's name, but Candida is a (bit uncommon though) hispanic name and also a word meaning "innocent". The yeast has the same name over here, but nobody'd think of it if they heard the name.
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Oct 28, 2020 02:25
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Huh. The yeast isn't anywhere near the forefront of my mind when I hear the name. I immediately thought of the Bernard Shaw play. Maybe we use the Latin name of yeasts less often in Australia 
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Oct 28, 2020 06:17
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Jiru posted:No idea about how it relates to the infection's name, but Candida is a (bit uncommon though) hispanic name and also a word meaning "innocent". The yeast has the same name over here, but nobody'd think of it if they heard the name. Yeah I speak neither English nor Spanish, but I never would have associated that name with a yeast infection. Actually had to look it up. Being an INTELLECTUAL I was actually reminded of the Voltaire novel
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Oct 29, 2020 15:56
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Phlegmish posted:Yeah I speak neither English nor Spanish Belgians don't do the French thing of pretending they don't speak English right? (As an aside, one of my bucket list goals is to learn Belgian French purely to annoy French people in their own language).
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Oct 30, 2020 08:36
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I suppose it would be more accurate to say I don't natively speak them. When it comes to words that are used more rarely (especially things like birds and plants), that starts to matter. Flemings will fall over themselves to reply to you in English, and Belgian francophones also tend to be a bit less chauvinistic in that regard than, say, Parisians. Good luck with learning Belgian French, I find that it's usually more logical than the standard variety, just be wary of some of the quirky expressions that were lifted straight from Dutch.
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Oct 31, 2020 01:41
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I say bird all the time. Bird.
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Tomorrow, I have to sit in on a job interview with a man named Richard Leak.
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