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I used to work at a bank, some shockers: Abcde pronounced Absidee. A-a pronounced Adasha. Camerondiaz s a first name. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 11, 2013 12:57
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What's wrong with that? Seth is a pretty common Biblical name. TheMightyHandful posted:I used to work at a bank, some shockers: You didn't see those. Because no-one has. Although everyone claims to have.
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Jan 11, 2013 13:19
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Antivehicular posted:This is way late, but I once worked for a woman named Melody who named her daughter Harmony. It's a little daft as a sibling-name thing, but as a generational thing, it verges on the cruel. It doesn't really matter what you make a Junior because that's what they'll be called no matter what their first name is.
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Jan 11, 2013 14:23
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Antivehicular posted:This is way late, but I once worked for a woman named Melody who named her daughter Harmony. It's a little daft as a sibling-name thing, but as a generational thing, it verges on the cruel. My city's local Fox affiliate has a Pete Peterson doing the weather.
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Jan 11, 2013 17:36
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jojoinnit posted:It doesn't really matter what you make a Junior because that's what they'll be called no matter what their first name is. It matters a little, since if you don't name them what you're named, they're not a Junior anymore. To contribute, I met a dude in college named Magnus Johnson. He was pretty proud of it.
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Jan 11, 2013 18:20
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TheMightyHandful posted:I used to work at a bank, some shockers: I decided to google Adasha, and it told me that in that form it is an actual name, an old near east combo that means "beauty" or "noble". The other has to be bullshit though and I wouldn't accept it without proof.
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Jan 11, 2013 19:45
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treiz01 posted:I decided to google Adasha, and it told me that in that form it is an actual name, an old near east combo that means "beauty" or "noble". I can believe people met Adasha. I can't believe anyone met A-a.
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Jan 11, 2013 19:51
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Silly Newbie posted:It matters a little, since if you don't name them what you're named, they're not a Junior anymore. Magnus is a latin name that means great, several Kings in Scandinavia started to use it in the middle ages since they thought it sounded badass.
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Jan 11, 2013 20:01
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Lord Tywin posted:Magnus is a latin name that means great, several Kings in Scandinavia started to use it in the middle ages since they thought it sounded badass. There's a former World's Strongest Man named Magnús Ver Magnússon. So, Magnus, son of Magnus. Granted, it's probably more fitting as he's an Icelandic strong man, but I think it works.
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Jan 11, 2013 20:48
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TheMightyHandful posted:I used to work at a bank, some shockers: I also recycled some ancient racist chain letters so I could make a cool internet post
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Jan 11, 2013 20:51
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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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Lord Tywin posted:Magnus is a latin name that means great, several Kings in Scandinavia started to use it in the middle ages since they thought it sounded badass. There was a quiz show presenter in the UK named Magnus Magnusson. Now THAT is awesome.
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Jan 11, 2013 21:01
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Names of tenants in the apartment company that I work for: FranCine. That's how she capitalizes it. Harry Anuszewski Duong Meister
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Jan 11, 2013 21:05
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bringmyfishback posted:Please stop with this bullshit. Please? I'm not asking again. 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.
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Jan 11, 2013 22:16
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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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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. I've said it before, but I bet spelling your name with punctuation is going to become trendy soon. Runcible Cat has a new favorite as of 22:55 on Jan 11, 2013 |
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Jan 11, 2013 22:53
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Runcible Cat posted:I've said it before, but I bet spelling your name with punctuation is going to become trendy soon. That's the orcish way!
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Jan 11, 2013 23:48
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My parents named me Starlyn. loving Starlyn. I'd ask them why they picked such an awful name but I don't want to make them feel bad about it.
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Jan 12, 2013 00:10
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My mom has told me a few that she's seen in her job over the years, but these are all I can remember off the top of my head. Chanda Leer (like chandelier) Justin Case Charity Case (brother and sister) Also, my boyfriend's niece is named Trystana. Like... Triss-Tan-uh *facedesk*
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Jan 12, 2013 00:43
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Andaley posted:Also, my boyfriend's niece is named Trystana. Like... Triss-Tan-uh *facedesk* Am I missing something? That sounds weird, but not absolutely horrible.
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Jan 12, 2013 02:33
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I went to middle school with a girl named Wan Ting Man. My girlfriend knows a Milton Melvin Croissant III. Apparently he's an artist who went by the name of 'Buddy' until he realized that if you're an artist with the name 'Milton Melvin Croissant III' you might be OK going by your real name.
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Jan 12, 2013 03:52
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GrrrlSweatshirt posted:My parents named me Starlyn. loving Starlyn. I'd ask them why they picked such an awful name but I don't want to make them feel bad about it. If my parents named me Starlyn, I would sure as gently caress make them feel bad about it.
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Jan 12, 2013 04:26
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Runcible Cat posted:Dear God. Will the twat parents call the next one Wxyz? (Pronounced Wuksi-zed, I guess.) A friend of mine is named Jeshawn but I thought it was spelled J'Shawn for the longest time 
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Jan 12, 2013 06:03
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am I alone in thinking that Orlando Bloom is a really, really odd name?
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Jan 12, 2013 06:31
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well why not posted:am I alone in thinking that Orlando Bloom is a really, really odd name? No, the first time I heard it, i was living in Wellington before the first LOTR came out and my idiot friend called me to gush about some actor named Orlando who was in a movie and had asked her out. I thought she'd made the whole thing up because who the gently caress is named Orlando.
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Jan 12, 2013 06:43
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Runcible Cat posted:Dear God. Will the twat parents call the next one Wxyz? (Pronounced Wuksi-zed, I guess.)  poo poo, at my high school graduation (all part-Hawaiian students), you'd get some long fuckin' names. And you had to stand the entire time, this one girl's middle name told a goddamn paragraph-long story that took two minutes to read. They brought in a specialist, though, and the most amazing part was that whoever that was just belted that poo poo out like it wasn't poo poo. She had a lot of trouble with the Japanese middle names though, haha.
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Jan 12, 2013 07:03
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Shithouse Dave posted:I thought she'd made the whole thing up because who the gently caress is named Orlando.
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Jan 12, 2013 08:09
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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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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:Italian people and people whose parents like early modern Italian epic poetry. Well I learned a thing! It sure wasn't common in New Zealand in 2000 though.
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Jan 12, 2013 09:02
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bringmyfishback posted: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 09:13
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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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bringmyfishback posted: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. 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.
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Jan 12, 2013 09:25
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Working at a police department I've run into a few odd names. Cocoa Fudge Candy Barr Moctezuma Zeb Zipper and a whole slew of "alternate" spellings like Myshel (Michelle) and the like.
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Jan 12, 2013 11:33
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What the hell kind of name is Porschla?
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Jan 12, 2013 21:08
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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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I'll never forget the time I met Shadow Ravenscraft at that party. He even showed us his ID to verify.
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Jan 13, 2013 03:37
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EnabledAssman posted:I'll never forget the time I met Shadow Ravenscraft at that party. He even showed us his ID to verify. One letter off and he could be related to the guy who did the voice of Tony the Tiger.
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Jan 13, 2013 04:45
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A friend of mine recently gave birth to a baby boy. She named him MATTEO, which she claimed is a common Italian name. All I know is that it's going to make the other kids immediately assume that he's an insufferable douchebag. 
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Jan 13, 2013 04:52
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No.44 posted:A friend of mine recently gave birth to a baby boy. She named him MATTEO, which she claimed is a common Italian name. All I know is that it's going to make the other kids immediately assume that he's an insufferable douchebag. I hope it's capitalized like that.
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Jan 13, 2013 05:47
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No.44 posted:A friend of mine recently gave birth to a baby boy. She named him MATTEO, which she claimed is a common Italian name. All I know is that it's going to make the other kids immediately assume that he's an insufferable douchebag. Edit: If your friend and her son live in a Hispanic area, his classmates will probably include at least one other Matteo, or however it's spelled in Spanish. Because it's a normal name. HEY GUNS has a new favorite as of 06:04 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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