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This is another urban legend that does or doesn't have racism attached, depending on who's telling the story. If you google "Kids named Syphilis and Gonorrhea" you'll see it posted in a bunch of different places, usually alongside people talking about kids they "know" named La-a and Shithead. Edit: See: http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp This should honestly be posted at the top of every page. Blast Fantasto has a new favorite as of 19:52 on Mar 12, 2013 |
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Charles Bronson posted:I was interviewing a mother with her two young children for a story. She told me her daughter's name and I recited it to her, letter by letter, to make sure I had the correct spelling. Different cultural backgrounds.  My Spanish cousins named Isabella or Isabelle (they use both) pronounce it E-zah-vey.
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Mar 12, 2013 20:22
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MustelaFuro posted:I had a grad school classmate who emigrated from Easter Island and originally only had one name. When he entered the US apparently they simply doubled his name, making him Aslan Aslan. Somebody went to Princeton High School. I'm pretty good friends with the same Truestar Urian(come on, there isn't more than one).
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Mar 12, 2013 21:40
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Robin Sparkles posted:Was in the elevator a few weeks ago, and heard a mother say to her daughter, "Patience, this isn't our floor!" Or the mother was using it as an archaic imperative or whatever you want to call it, I know that my mum used to use "patience" as a command.
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Mar 12, 2013 22:03
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Blast Fantasto posted:This is another urban legend that does or doesn't have racism attached, depending on who's telling the story. This is good advice and I am amending the OP to include it.
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Mar 12, 2013 22:22
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There is a girl at my university named Amanda Phister. When my friends were talking about her I was confused when the joke didn't have a punchline. That's her real name and I'm just a jerk  I also went to high school with a kid named Asad Naeem (pronounced ahsaad nie-yeem) but the secretary would always say "Can a sad name report to the office" ghosthorse has a new favorite as of 23:05 on Mar 12, 2013 |
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Blast Fantasto posted:Edit: It's in the first post on the first page, what makes you think anyone will pay attention to it at the top of the other pages?  My parents told me they joked about naming me Frank instead of Ken. I'm glad they had a momentary burst of sanity because being a kid named Frank Stein would have made things very difficult. e: vvv they joked about that, too. Or Nicholas. kastein has a new favorite as of 01:30 on Mar 13, 2013 |
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Mar 13, 2013 01:27
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They could have been even bigger jerks and made your middle name Ken.
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My dad always tells me he wanted to name me Dagny. I have no idea why. We have, as far as I know, absolutely no Scandinavian heritage. It might just be a really long-running joke at this point. (e: And I grew up in southern Illinois. It wouldn't have been nearly as odd in Europe or something, probably, but I can almost guarantee no one in southern Illinois has ever encountered anyone named Dagny.) My cousin and his wife had a new baby this past summer. They named him Seth. We tried so hard to get them to name him Seth Albert Swearengen [Last Name]. MK-Ultramarathon has a new favorite as of 02:17 on Mar 13, 2013 |
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ExpletiveDeleted posted:My dad always tells me he wanted to name me Dagny. I have no idea why. We have, as far as I know, absolutely no Scandinavian heritage. It might just be a really long-running joke at this point. If your last name is Swearengen as well then you, my friend, are probably Swedish. Only reason I bothered to look it up is because surnames that end in -engen are typically Northern Germanic. Also Dagny means something like "new day" and was originally pronounced "day-noo" or "day-nee", not "dag-nee" kastein posted:It's in the first post on the first page, what makes you think anyone will pay attention to it at the top of the other pages? I never really thought "Frankenstein" was a weird name; I knew a guy named Jeff Frankenstein too. I know of a family named Himelstein, which translates to heavenstone v  v.
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No, that's not our last name (my bad, should have been clearer). Just a Deadwood reference. I have no idea where our last name originates from because our family's been in America for a long time. I've had a few people say they think it's German. A friend of mine also told me that she had a pregnant friend who wanted to name their kid Chewbacca. They were going to call her Chewie. I don't think that would make it any better. I hope they didn't actually do it.
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I knew a guy in Texas whose last name was Malacara. We always called him Badface. (mal = bad, cara = face)
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I work in IT for my tribe's government offices. There are lots of goofy-sounding names, but the two that stick out in my memory are Squirrel Fields and especially Mohawk Beaver 
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There was a lecturer in the physics department of my old uni called Mike Hunt. No idea why he didn't just go by Michael.
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Stottie Kyek posted:There was a lecturer in the physics department of my old uni called Mike Hunt. No idea why he didn't just go by Michael. This sounds more like a joke off the Simpsons than a real name. Maybe his parents always called him Michael and just never realized what Mike would sound like.
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razorrozar posted:This sounds more like a joke off the Simpsons than a real name. Maybe his parents always called him Michael and just never realized what Mike would sound like. Are you referring to Homer Simpson legally changing his name to Max Power? Yes, I will admit that it is one of my favorite episode. One name that I particularly despise is "Delores." That name in Spanish means pain, yet I see countless little old ladies with that name. And yes, some of them can be a pain and I think about how fitting their name really is. Don't name your child this name, I believe you will be doing society a great service.
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Fuzzyjello posted:Are you referring to Homer Simpson legally changing his name to Max Power? Yes, I will admit that it is one of my favorite episode. Actually, I was thinking of Bart's prank calls to Moe, with names along the lines of Hugh Jass (who was an actual person in the bar at the time Bart called) and Mike Rotch.
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Mar 13, 2013 09:42
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Fuzzyjello posted:One name that I particularly despise is "Delores." That name in Spanish means pain, yet I see countless little old ladies with that name. Technically it means "Sorrows", and it's one of those super-traditional, named-after-the-Virgin-Mary names; like Carmen, Mercedes, or Pilar. Fizbin has a new favorite as of 09:54 on Mar 13, 2013 |
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The owner/operator of the local aviation business here is Dick Seaman. He's quite successful, as it turns out.
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Fizbin posted:Technically it means "Sorrows", and it's one of those super-traditional, named-after-the-Virgin-Mary names; like Carmen, Mercedes, or Pilar. ExpletiveDeleted posted:My dad always tells me he wanted to name me Dagny. I have no idea why. We have, as far as I know, absolutely no Scandinavian heritage. It might just be a really long-running joke at this point. (e: And I grew up in southern Illinois. It wouldn't have been nearly as odd in Europe or something, probably, but I can almost guarantee no one in southern Illinois has ever encountered anyone named Dagny.)
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Mar 13, 2013 23:44
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razorrozar posted:This sounds more like a joke off the Simpsons than a real name. Maybe his parents always called him Michael and just never realized what Mike would sound like. There's a Mike Hunt at my parents' church, and he's young enough to know better. Sure made Mass fun though: "The second reading will be performed by Mike Hunt..."
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Mar 14, 2013 00:01
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I spent a year in middle school with a classmate named Wei Long Wang
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One of my freshman year roommates was a very sweet Korean girl named Ye In. She went by her nickname, Yanni. She'd lived in America for several years at that point, and was really, really sick of telling people she wasn't a fan of New Age music.
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Dalrain posted:The owner/operator of the local aviation business here is Dick Seaman. He's quite successful, as it turns out. I posted:E: I knew of a girl in my hometown named Indigo Seaman. Her grandfather's name? Richard. Weird. Edit: A GODDAMN TYPO posted:I have a coworker named Princess but that's not so unusual. No they weren't. Hummingbirds has a new favorite as of 00:46 on Mar 14, 2013 |
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I went to high school with a fellow by the name of Gaylord Butts. Ran for class office, too. Somehow, he didn't win.
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razorrozar posted:Actually, I was thinking of Bart's prank calls to Moe, with names along the lines of Hugh Jass (who was an actual person in the bar at the time Bart called) and Mike Rotch. I looked up a bunch of prank call names and apparently, there really is someone named Sharon Cox. http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/01/31/2456787/sgt-sharon-cox-resigns-from-gig.html
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Mar 15, 2013 02:22
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I went to school with a guy named Mike Hunt. He didn't even choose to go by Micheal.
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Twongtip Punlertpathanakon.
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I went to school with a girl named Yumna Chowdhury. While I know those are both relatively common names in other cultures, I couldn't help but think of a steaming bowl of yummy chowder whenever she was referenced. e: vvvvv  vvvvv No they haven't. No it isn't.
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A close member of my immediate family has tutored more than one child named la-a. It's a real name. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Ogmius815 posted:A close member of my immediate family has tutored more than one child named la-a. It's a real name. For gently caress's sake.
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Mar 15, 2013 23:17
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Ogmius815 posted:A close member of my immediate family has tutored more than one child named la-a. It's a real name. That's a disgusting way to refer to your penis.
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Ogmius815 posted:A close member of my immediate family has tutored more than one child named la-a. It's a real name. Here's the thing; noone is saying the name Ladasha/LeDasha doesn't exist. The legend is that real life people named Ladasha spell it La-a "cause the dash don't be silent". I tried to find a single real instance of it and I found this at best: http://community.babycenter.com/post/a24080189/find_me_a_real_true_life_la-a
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Ogmius815 posted:A close member of my immediate family has tutored more than one child named la-a. It's a real name. No one said it isn't real. Just that posting about it is probateable. EDIT: Actually, Blackyard Blacksmith said it isn't real. Also, again, that it is probateable. Speshul snowflake children in the store totoday: Chase (normal enough) and his sister, Strider. Nothing like naming your kid after a sub-par Beverly Cleary novel. EDIT (again) redmercer posted:That's a disgusting way to refer to your penis. 
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bringmyfishback posted:No one said it isn't real. Just that posting about it is probateable. Oh, I would have thought Strider was a Lord of the Rings thing. I have a friend with kids named Fayt and Haven. Fayt is a boy, which somehow makes it worse for me. Another friend has named her children Seraphim and Phoenix.
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Leelee posted:Another friend has named her children Seraphim and Phoenix. Please tell me her last name is Wright. Remember those parents whose kid was born 11/11/11 who named their kid something like Matthew Dovahkiin Lastname in exchange for getting all Bethesda games free forever?
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For a while I lived with a kid named Awesome. It was on his birth certificate and everything. I don't know why he was named that, but it wasn't really appropriate.
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I dream of giving one of my kids the middle name of Danger because I think that's the coolest thing since the invention of the fridge.
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Leelee posted:I have a friend with kids named Fayt and Haven. Fayt is a boy, which somehow makes it worse for me. razorrozar posted:Please tell me her last name is Wright.
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