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My friend just posted this on facebook: "Today, I taught a student named Mafia." Welp.
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InEscape posted:My best friend got a (horrendously ugly) Christmas card from a Mormon branch of his family. Each kid in the family (5 in all) had a little poem written about them, really normal stuff about how the boys are doing karate and the girls are in dance and gymnastics... Until it gets to the last girl. Her name is "Jainii". The other kids are mostly normal, sort of -- Lexis, Landon, Jayden. Super trendy. But Jainii? That's not even a misspelled name! The closest thing is "Janie" which is sort of a pet name for "Jane". Also, her poem was about how much boys like her and how she loves makeup, and contained the line "she's daddy's favorite and everyone knows it The site Utah Baby Names explores the horrors of Mormon babynamery.
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Jan 9, 2013 07:25
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" winky face and all. Jainii is six.
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I found this. No wonder the Puritans were such dicks: Abstinence Handmaid Lamentation Wrestling Job-raked-out-of-the-ashes Sorry-for-sin That "If-Christ-had- not-died-for- thee-thou-hadst- been-damned" guy was also known as "Damned" Barebone, according to the site.
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Jan 10, 2013 03:03
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ButWhatIf posted:Yeah, parents get absolutely zero say. My mom was super excited that she'd picked a name for me that would be hard to make terrible nicknames out of - Audrey. The very first day my parents brought me to church, the youth minister came up and immediately waggled his fingers and said "How's the little Aud-bod?" My mom was horrified. Thankfully, no one else has ever attempted to call me this in any seriousness. And how many times did the youth minister touch you? What a weird and creepy nickname. At least he didn't think you were a carnivorous space plant, I guess.
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Jan 11, 2013 03:50
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:Dov. It'll sound Israeli, and I actually like that one. But it may evoke Dov Charney. And no one needs that. TheMightyHandful posted:I used to work at a bank, some shockers: Please stop with this bullshit. Please? I'm not asking again.
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Jan 11, 2013 20:53
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ButWhatIf posted:The A-a is absolutely racist garbage, but the Abcde part is absolutely a thing that is happening among special snowflake yuppie parents. I wish it weren't. ...there is no God. But I will amend the OP to say that if you can show actual proof, you're clean. Also, thank you for posting this, and my cat also thanks you for the coffee shower she just received.
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Jan 11, 2013 22:23
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The White Dragon posted:What about pacific islander names with punctuation that represents glottal stops? A Native girl in my high school had a fifteen-letter first name with a semicolon in the middle of it. If you dared to ask how she pronounced it, she would just call you a racist. Kind of hard to make friends that way.
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Jan 12, 2013 08:50
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The White Dragon posted:I know some modern Native American alphabets have appropriated English punctuation for accents and stuff rather than resort to the arcaneness of the phonetic alphabet (no seriously if you guys don't know your IPA, look it up, that poo poo looks straight out of a Rowling spellbook). Honestly she was probably covering for the fact she couldn't even pronounce it herself, some of those names are tonguetwisters for those of us whose first language is English. She said the semicolon stood for a drumbeat. Wouldn't that be awfully inconvenient? She's have had to carry a drum around at all times just to introduce herself. Anyways, if her parents really did give a name she couldn't even pronounce...that might actually be worse than Abcde.
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Jan 12, 2013 09:19
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Bertrand Hustle posted:There are no natural languages that require additional tools other than the mouth (or hands, in the case of sign languages) to speak. She was loving with you. I knew she was loving with me, hence the "awfully inconvenient" comment. Maybe she was just tired of explaining her name all the time. I don't blame her, frankly. I wish I could remember exactly what her name was, though. I've been trying to recall it, but all I get is "T______;liyos."
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Jan 13, 2013 00:37
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Was it perhaps a colon? The Seneca, Cayuga, and Mohawk languages all use colons. It was definitely a semicolon, but I'm from upstate NY, so all three of those languages would be a good bet (I believe she was Onondaga, though).
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Jan 13, 2013 09:01
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Google tells me Onondaga has colons too! I think it's a thing that the Iroquois League must've come up with, standardizing some sort of orthography for written Iroquoian languages. I solemnly swear I think it was a semicolon, but I'm turning 28 in less than seven hours, so I may be remembering incorrectly due to old age (and the fact that I knew her a decade ago). Perhaps it was a colon. I've been poring over my high school's website and not found any info about her, but I admit I could be remembering things incorrectly.
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Jan 13, 2013 09:15
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I wouldn't even blink at a kid named Matteo. Then again, as previously stated, I'm from upstate NY and a Mafioso farmer kid would be par for the course for me.
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Jan 13, 2013 10:09
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IronClaymore posted:My own IRL name is kinda messed up. It's mostly the same as, and pronounced like, a relatively normal name, but looks like someone did a typo. It's actually more aesthetically pleasing (I think) then the normal spelling, but still, unusual. It's actually so distinctive that a long while ago, when I still gave free money to Blizzard, a random person's character had my real name, and because I had never seen my name before in any context I did a double take and almost followed that guy trying to find out where he got the name from. Later I found out it from a random selection of syllables for random names they give World of Warcraft characters. This is hilarious and I really want to know what your name is, but you don't have to tell.  My father told me today that if I was a boy, my grandfather wanted me to be named Llewellyn George, the George specifically after George V. I know Llewellyn isn't the weirdest name in the world, but I would not have liked to be named that.
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Jan 13, 2013 23:51
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m3monster posted:I am sorry I didn't know, what is wrong with it? I will correct the post or delete it. The part where you didn't read the first post of the thread, or either of the two posts made on previous pages. Sorry, dude.
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Jan 16, 2013 05:04
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EDIT: Never mind. I'm sick of arguing about this with people. Post what the mods told you not to post willy-nilly. So, apparently Bristol Palin's babydaddy named his new sprog Breeze Beretta? How did I miss this? Fleta Mcgurn has a new favorite as of 05:38 on Jan 16, 2013 |
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Jan 16, 2013 05:29
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Random googling hit upon this site and these gems that are allegedly from the Census Bureau: Lust Garten Envy Burger Beef Cooper Cabbage Haywood Dinner Ware Mustard M. Mustard edit: gently caress, now I'm hungry Double edit: Changed the OP to say that no one should be posting Abdce in this thread anymore. I don't care if it's apparently widespread, a very interesting untrue fact. No more Abcde. Fleta Mcgurn has a new favorite as of 02:40 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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Jan 17, 2013 02:33
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Emberlei posted:The hairpin had a listing of Puritan baby names today (it was actually a part 2) Hew-agag-in-pieces-before-the-Lord Robinson Did the parents vomit in the middle of naming the poor kid? Small-hope Biggs- That's just hard to, you know, date with.
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Jan 18, 2013 05:55
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I need to get my Bible on, clearly. Berodachbaladan Merodachbaladan Tilgathpilneser Zaphnathpaaneah Bashanhavothjair Chushanrishathaim Mahershalalhashbaz
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Jan 18, 2013 21:50
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Imperialist Dog posted:Oh and last year I had some nice students named Rex and Regina. For the first month I couldn't figure out why the class laughed when I called her name until I found out I wasn't supposed to use the Canadian pronunciation. To be honest, I lived in Canada for five years and still giggle like a child whenever anyone says "Regina." (as it's pronounced for the city in Saskatchewan. Is that how people say it as a name, too?)
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Jan 21, 2013 05:23
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:I've only ever heard the city pronounced to rhyme with vagina. You mean like Mo Collins' seminal role? Scroll to 1:40 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYBo5eS5pW8 probably  clip from The 40 Year Old Virgin)And yes, I meant that the city name rhymes with "vagina." I was asking if the human person name "Regina" is pronounced similarly in Canada.
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Jan 21, 2013 06:43
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Imperialist Dog posted:I had no idea it could be pronounced any OTHER way than as "vagina". I'm from Ontario. When you look at a coin, we all pronounced it like that: Elizabeth II, D. G. Regina. I lived in Toronto for five years, and I remember the name being pronounced as "Re-GEE-na" and the city as rhyming with vagina. I could be remembering it totally wrong, though. Hahaha vagina. Saw this on Failblog:  EDIT: I love that your name is "Imperialist Dog" and you posted about the Queen.
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Jan 21, 2013 20:44
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sweeperbravo posted:You could have been the Obediah Wheatfish. GODDAMMIT I WANT TO NAME EVERYTHING THAT BAKA FLOCKA FLAME posted:Nobody actually gives a poo poo what you might have been called tho I do! I think it's interesting.
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Jan 23, 2013 01:47
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Quvenzhané, as in Quvenzhané Wallis the actress. I can't even with this name. Quvenzhané! She's a pretty wicked actress, though.
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Jan 28, 2013 03:59
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De Nomolos posted:A "wiccan" girl my wife went to college with named her little girl Reignbeaux. No, see, that's Ojibwe for "I just threw up through my loving eyes" so it's actually very moving.
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Jan 28, 2013 08:57
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The White Dragon, maybe you should start an A/T about being Hawaiian, because you keep saying stuff that sounds interesting and cool, but I am too much of a dumb non-Hawaiian person to understand some of it. EDIT: By the by, I am not being sarcastic- I would totally read that thread. Fleta Mcgurn has a new favorite as of 09:36 on Jan 28, 2013 |
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Jan 28, 2013 09:30
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Rino posted:A friend is naming her new baby boy Drecklyn. Ughhh Dreckitude! This is the worst so far, I think. It actually sounds like an insult.
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Jan 31, 2013 04:54
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A guy in my ballet class had the last name of Gay. You don't even have to try with that kind of material.
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Jan 31, 2013 09:00
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Shithouse Dave posted:That show (that I totally never watch honest) is a goldmine of dreadful names and awful spellings. You forgot to mention that Sparkal's last name is Queenz, and her mother is Harmonee or something similar. And Alycesaundra's name made me bite my lip when I saw it. treiz01 posted:Would you name your child Odo or Garak, just because they are cool Star Trek characters? Kahless is going to have a lifetime of people thinking his name is weird and having to explain that his namesake is a minor character in a fictional universe. Maybe he'll roam from town to town, Bat'leth strapped to his back, searching for the mother who gave him that awful name. Why not just name your kid Bat'leth; that would be way awesomer. But if you're going to name your kid after any DS9 character, for gently caress's sake, name it Gul Dukat.
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Feb 4, 2013 01:38
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But everyone I've ever known named Aisling pronounced it "ash-ling," with an audible g  EDIT: All the Aislings I've known were from Canada, if that makes a difference.
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Feb 4, 2013 02:03
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:That's probably because they weren't familiar with Irish Gaelic orthography. They see a "g" and say "ling." To be fair, I never got better than a C in my Gaelic class. Anyone who didn't grow up speaking it and can do so fluently deserves a medal. or a mBedal.
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Feb 4, 2013 02:11
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Two little kids came into the store today: Silver, a cute little toddler, and Harvard, a little boy who will probably never reach his parents' expectations.
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Feb 8, 2013 06:06
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Silly Hippie posted:I used to work in a call center with a girl named Ajewel Harden. She was good friends with another employee named Crystal. You don't happen to live in Montana, do you? I heard both of those names last week from kids coming into our store.
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Feb 10, 2013 02:39
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It's Launcelot Gobbo, isn't it.
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Feb 10, 2013 20:07
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kastein posted:And the best part is that the thread gets derailed for multiple pages every time! Pretty sure that's why it was listed as bannable in the OP, it happened at least two or three times in the first part of the thread that I went through. I give up on trying to warn people, especially after the last chucklefuck who tried it. I don't think the mods are actually enforcing it, anyways. Anyway. At work today, a spoiled little poo poo came in with the stunning name of Amethyst. She made a huge loving mess and Mommy just laughed.
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Feb 11, 2013 07:44
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Latest horrible little poo poo to come into my store: Cagen. Pronounced like "Cajun," but spelled C-A-G-E-N because why the everfuck not.
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Feb 12, 2013 06:32
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ms_hyena posted:Kelly is one of those names that was originally considered a masculine name. Another one is Courtney - which is the name of a (young) man who was our customer the other day. I had a boy named Ashley in my kindergarten class. Remember thinking it was weird at the time. It was probably really annoying for the poor dude; he must get "like in Gone With the Wind!" every day of his life.
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Feb 13, 2013 08:57
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Metal Loaf posted:It's sometimes pronounced "Rayf", as is the case with Vaughan Williams or Ralph Fiennes. Or Ralph Patterson. New speshul snowflake children today: yep, finally, I meet a Rayden. Spelling assumed. EDIT: Oh, and a Kristabella. Which is maybe not so weird.
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Feb 14, 2013 05:56
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Silly Hippie posted:Emma Hamilton's daughter, Horatia Nelson, named two of her children Horatio and Horatia Nelson. I'm sure that wasn't at all confusing. That's rather Roman of her. Also, the newest dumb kid name in the store: Craven!. I don't know if it's related, but the mother kept pronouncing leggings as "leggins." Fleta Mcgurn has a new favorite as of 06:54 on Feb 15, 2013 |
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Feb 15, 2013 06:02
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StandardToast posted:Apparently that was the pronunciation of choice when it cames to wearing them back in the 90s, because my mom is still stuck on calling them "leggins". Another woman did it today. It's just weird, because every other -ing word was pronounced with success.
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Astrofig posted:I saw a contestant on some NBC chef-challenge show called Dewberry. Oooh! He's that guy who got kicked off Hell's Kitchen, yeah? Speaking of famous chefs, Jamie Oliver named his kids: Poppy Honey Rosie Daisy Boo Pamela Petal Blossom Rainbow Buddy Bear Maurice None of these are suitable names for anything other than hamsters.
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