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Huntersoninski posted:Where I work we see a lot of names, and over the years have compiled a great list of odd ones. Naturally I can't think of them all now, but this one always stuck with me: Pushpindra. Why.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:It's an actual Indian name, thankfully, not a case of someone naming their kid after push-pins. So it's more "Pushp-Indra?" That doesn't seem so bad at all. Indra being a leader of the devas and Pushp being a common place name, it makes a lot of sense.
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That makes me feel a lot better for the kid. We get most of the names from online apps so I rarely get to meet them in person. More names from the list: Elfrida Velveeta Meta Jo Decalm Ma Lizza Claireriza Flozetta Guyla Bobella
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Nov 5, 2013 18:21
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Huntersoninski posted:Bobella Why are there feminized masculine names (Henrietta, Georgette) but not masculinized feminine ones? Meeting one "Elizabob" would make me feel a lot better about all the Paulettes.
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flakeloaf posted:Why are there feminized masculine names (Henrietta, Georgette) but not masculinized feminine ones? Meeting one "Elizabob" would make me feel a lot better about all the Paulettes. Male or Unisex names becoming female is pretty common (like Shannon or Ashley) but rarely go the other way. I think it's for basically the same reason that many places frown much harder on male homosexuals than lesbians: femininity is viewed as inherently weaker than or inferior to masculinity, and a man taking a female name or the "female place" in a relationship is considered that much more taboo.
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bringmyfishback posted:If I was a porn star, I'd be Epiktetas Von Swallowmany. quote:I know somebody named Elizer whose parents believed was going to be a girl until he came out, so they just replaced the -a with an -er instead of just naming him Elijah. Avshalom has a new favorite as of 21:38 on Nov 5, 2013 |
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Nov 5, 2013 21:36
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Lotish posted:So it's more "Pushp-Indra?" That doesn't seem so bad at all. Indra being a leader of the devas and Pushp being a common place name, it makes a lot of sense. Google says it means "king of flowers." Apparently pushpa is Sanskrit for flowers, so I'm guessing the -ndra is the king part (or my Google search was lazy, one or the other!). flakeloaf posted:Why are there feminized masculine names (Henrietta, Georgette) but not masculinized feminine ones? Meeting one "Elizabob" would make me feel a lot better about all the Paulettes. There's Mario (derived from Maria, not the other way around).
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Nov 5, 2013 23:14
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I've recently started a new job, where I work with a Twinkle and a Cinderella.
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LizzieBorden posted:I've recently started a new job, where I work with a Twinkle and a Cinderella. Please tell me you will dump any and all manual, boring, or dirty work onto Cinderella edit: Re: Elizer Is it pronounced Eeh-lie-zur, like a Kennedy would say Eliza?
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:My roommate has gone by Vito for the past... 8? 9? years. Been a long time, me and another one of our good friends are the only ones that call him by his real name. Does this mean we can talk about people that insist upon dumb nicknames? I knew a couple of brothers during my grade and high school years, the older of whom was named Mike. Not too long ago I became friends with a woman who it turns out went to college with both of them, and the older brother started going around insisting everyone call him Magnus. He got zero respect for this.
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In the vein of silly nicknames, there used to be a guy at my school who called himself Butters, after Butters from South Park. We went with it because he was one of seven Justins (including a girl named Justin) in that circle of people. In the same group is a guy who calls himself Skittles, and a Danny that half the people call Gideon.
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One of my friends had a roommate named Dib, after Invader Zim. Grown man named for a cartoon character whose defining characteristics are a huge head and impotent paranoia.
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Lotish posted:One of my friends had a roommate named Dib, after Invader Zim. Grown man named for a cartoon character whose defining characteristics are a huge head and impotent paranoia. Your friend had a 12-year-old roommate? Or are we still on self-appointed nicknames?
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Lotish posted:One of my friends had a roommate named Dib, after Invader Zim. Grown man named for a cartoon character whose defining characteristics are a huge head and impotent paranoia.
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I work in a bakery and had to write "Happy Birthday Tyranny" on a cake for someone. At least I assumed it was a name.
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Some names that are just slightly off... --Kathlee --Jennica --Kelby
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Kazy posted:Your friend had a 12-year-old roommate? Or are we still on self-appointed nicknames? The latter.
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A lady who used to be a coworker named her kids Embra and Britanna.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Some names that are just slightly off...
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Crusty Nutsack posted:La-a. 
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Some names that are just slightly off... I knew a Jennica in school. The "i" made an "ee" sound for the record.
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As for males named female things, here's Christine Michael. Pronounced Kristen. By coincidence, today's crime report in the local paper features a guy named Amy. Amy Jr., to be precise.
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Saw a birth announcement for an Axton on Facebook, who is apparently also a character from Borderlands 2. I don't know if that's where they got the name from but to me it sounds clunky as gently caress for a first name. I also saw an Aydien on some kid's show, but it was still pronounced Aidan. What the hell, stop loving with perfectly good names!
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RC and Moon Pie posted:As for males named female things, here's Christine Michael. Pronounced Kristen. I know an Ami Jr. He's got about half a dozen ridiculous nicknames. My favorites are Bonerpunch and Butterfree.
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My sister was staying at a hostel in Europe and saw someone in her room's luggage tag: Fergyl McDermott. Actually it's kinda awesome, you can't get much more Irish/Hobbit-like than that.
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So there's a school here in  being sued by Harvard for trademark infringement.However it happens to be run by a very special type of crazy named the Reverend Dr. Tina Beloveth Powerful.
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Yolshi posted:So there's a school here in I wouldn't sue, that sounds like some Hogwarts poo poo goin' on.
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Slow day at work, caught up on the thread. My dad wanted to name me Kid (or Kidd, I never asked how he wanted to spell it), fortunately my mom talked him out of it. I love you, Mom. My sister worked for an international company, there was a woman in the China office with the surname Miao who had adopted the English surname Kitty. You don't get more Bond girl name-y than Kitty Miao. Choco1980 posted:For a while I worked at a chain of Korean dry cleaners where 90% of the employees were Korean Americans, and often they would adopt "American" names as their nicknames that they just had all the non-Korean customers call them to simplify things. Probably intentional, but the Korean dude my family takes their cars to for repairs goes by Bruce Lee. I've got one of his business cards in a desk drawer somewhere back home. Lotish posted:Got a new student today from Thailand. Not a terrible name, per se--just one that causes an English speaker to pause. "Wipaporn." Pronounced like you think: like a command to beat a pornagrapher or pornstar with a whip. Not really... the vowel sound in พร ("porn") is อ, which is an /aw/ sound (as in lawn). There's really not a good way to transliterate Thai into the English alphabet, and the "official" one is probably the worst of the lot for non-speakers trying to get close to the Thai pronunciation. Another example: the main airport in Bangkok is Suvarnabhumi Airport. Pronounced like "Su-wan-na-poom", written that way in English because of Sanskrit.
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Former high school classmate named her twin girls Remington and Brynnly. Why would you do that
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Not really... the vowel sound in พร ("porn") is อ, which is an /aw/ sound (as in lawn). There's really not a good way to transliterate Thai into the English alphabet, and the "official" one is probably the worst of the lot for non-speakers trying to get close to the Thai pronunciation. Another example: the main airport in Bangkok is Suvarnabhumi Airport. Pronounced like "Su-wan-na-poom", written that way in English because of Sanskrit. I'm just saying it how she said to say it. 
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In high school, I knew a girl named Leaha (the second "a" is silent) and a guy named Eliza. The "z" is pronounced like the "s" in "treasure." I guess his parents couldn't decide between Elijah and Elisha so they smashed them together in defiance of English phonetics.Pompous Rhombus posted:My dad wanted to name me Kid (or Kidd, I never asked how he wanted to spell it), fortunately my mom talked him out of it. I love you, Mom. My dad had to talk my mom out of naming my sister Briar.
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Woman named her kid Excedrin White because he gave her a headache coming out. I learned this because I had to get his file while I was working at the welfare board and was told what was what.
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There's this kid at my Sylvan called Ryann. I don't get it, what's the point of adding the extra n. It just looks dumb.
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Celery Face posted:I don't get it Celery Face posted:what's the point Celery Face posted:It just looks dumb.
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Inspector Zenigata posted:I know somebody named Elizer whose parents believed was going to be a girl until he came out, so they just replaced the -a with an -er instead of just naming him Elijah. My sister actually named her sons Eleazar and Elijah - her husband is Hispanic and apparently Eleazar isn't at all an unusual name in his neck of the woods, on top of the Hebrew connotation mentioned. 
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Celery Face posted:There this kid at my Sylvan called Ryann. I don't get it, what's the point of adding the extra n. It just looks dumb. I know a very nice woman named "Ryanne" pronounced "Ryan". When you talk about her, folks who don't know her assume you are talking about a man. People also tend to mispronounce her name "Rye-Anne".
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