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Ugly In The Morning posted:It’s a type of rock... and if you’re thinking “oh, I bet it’s a type of rock that gets used in all sorts of crystal healing bullshit”, you would be 100 percent correct! wouldn't it make more sense for volcanic rocks to be used in JO crystals though
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:It's not any different in Europe, it seems. Last year, I had ten students in my class. Six were boys. Two were Guillem and one was Guillermo. That is true. Some names here in Flanders are perennial, like Jan or Marie, but others a very much a generational thing. Over here, if your name is something like Luc, André or Rita, there's a 95% chance you were born in the '50s or '60s. I have a name like that as well, which is an incredibly obvious '80s name. In the maternity ward, there were two other newborns with my first name! The upside of this is that it's a little harder to find information about me if you don't really know me because my last name is also fairly common in Belgium and the Netherlands. One of my namesakes is a CEO and another one is a lowkey prime athlete, so that muddles the search results quite a bit. HelloIAmYourHeart posted:My first year in college (2005), I lived on an all girls' floor. Out of ten girls, three were named Amanda. Heh. I have one American ex-girlfriend, and that was her name, too.
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May 10, 2020 22:36
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TheKennedys posted:If someone has a singsongy name I can't help but append a singsongy middle name to it to complete the rhythm, I feel like that's how a lot of those names happen. It feels very Southern, yes. It's gotta be the right combo of first name with the stress in the right place and short middle name to work, which is basically why my daughter's names are in the order they are. It's the rhythm of the name for me at least, and probably the era when there were less first names and everyone was called Mary or Sarah that led to dual names like that. I dunno why this thread and names overall are so interesting to me but I love this poo poo something like Beauregard Cletus Jackson, or?
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May 12, 2020 17:33
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DemonDarkhorse posted:dijonnaise that... that simply can't be true?
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May 13, 2020 21:30
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I don't know where it's a common name, but whenever I hear the name 'Moreno', I'm always reminded of the word "moron". It's a deeply stupid name.
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May 17, 2020 18:59
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TheKennedys posted:Pope Hilarius reminds me that I have a friend called Larry who I knew for nine months IRL before bothering to add him on Facebook, where I realized his real name was Hilario Of course. My user name isn't just Pope Hilarius II for funsies, there actually was a Pope Hilarius in the 5th century. I hope he was as funny as his name suggests.
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May 18, 2020 16:50
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maybe he just enjoyed silly dad jokes, so they called his successor Pope Eyerollius
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May 18, 2020 20:21
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I had a housemate named Chiffon for a while. Most of these sound like they came straight from the fat-addled mind of George Lucas
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Jul 26, 2020 14:52
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Lady Disdain posted:I know tradition is tradition, and your name is your name. But there are plenty of other names that have had their spelling changed to match their pronunciation. So why wouldn't you do that with a name that has an embarrassing spelling ? Just stubborn determination ? Yes. They once interviewed someone on Flemish television with the surname Kut ("oval office"), it was an old lady and she defiantly said: "well I am a proud oval office".
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Jul 28, 2020 15:56
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Phlegmish posted:The interview team is on its way, Consisting of Phlegmish and myself, you'll recognise us by our Mediaeval clothes and our pious facial expressions
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Jul 28, 2020 21:18
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HiroProtagonist posted:I don't think you're allowed to say that word anymore Only if you're from the region between Mons and Liège, otherwise you're just a sparkling French speaker
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Jul 29, 2020 11:16
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Fader Movitz posted:Two names I ran across at work Reminds me: I once had to call up a woman named Mrs. Tits. I also had a colleague whose name was Frank Guns, which is a pretty normal Belgian name but funny to English speakers because it made him seem like a Chicago-era crimelord. He was a very gentle, soft-spoken man though.
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Today I learnt there is a councilman and MP in Belgium called Franky Demon https://www.frankydemon.be/ You don't pronounce it as "demon" in English but it's funny nonetheless, especially in combination with his first name, like he's just a friendly demon named Franky.
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Aug 19, 2020 22:01
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You might have heard of the Renaissance physician Paracelsus, right? Well, apparently his full name was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. I mean, each of his subsequent names sounds more like that Inception BRRRRAAAAAAAHHHH sound than the previous one.
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Sep 18, 2020 22:16
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Apparently Patricia Routledge, the actress who portrayed her, was a lovely woman though. But yeah, some things can hit too close to home. I knew a guy once whose antics and behaviour were incredibly similar to Ace Ventura, hence I didn't think the Ace Ventura character was funny in the slightest.
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Sep 24, 2020 22:21
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A year or two ago there was a food scare around chicken eggs in the Low Countries, and the Dutch PR person of the poultry association was called Hennie De Haan ("Hen the Rooster"). I also had a teacher for Greek, Latin and French whose name was Frans Van Parys ("Francis of Paris", but 'Frans' also means "French" in Dutch).
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Oct 22, 2020 17:28
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I say turd all the time.
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Nov 2, 2020 17:59
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Lady Disdain posted:Brother of Andy Pandy. Reminds me of notorious Belgian serial murderer Andras Pandy. Together with his daughter, with whom he also had an incestuous relationship, they murdered at least 6 people (mostly family members) and dissolved them in acid.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:New names endorsed in 2020: Do they realise that this is literally Dutch for "weak man" Also it was my understanding that Finnish didn't have a Z?
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Speaking of names, does anyone know why some months are acceptable as names and why some aren't? I mean, barring August, which originally is a name anyway.
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cptn_dr posted:How dare you?! My frind Ehnna will hear of this! "The rivolution has begun!"
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Antivehicular posted:I've always wondered about that re: guys named Dick UnfortunateSurname. Most of them must be legally named Richard, right? Why go by Dick when you could be Richard, or Rich, or Rick? Was Dick just so ubiquitous a nickname that they would have been seen as weirder not to use it? In some cases it's total unawareness. I had a colleague whose last name was De Cock and his brother was named Dick. It wasn't a terribly uncommon name in the Dutch-speaking world back when he was born (~1960s) and most Dutch speakers didn't know about the connotation either 'Dick' or 'Cock' held. Unfortunately this man became a sales rep in England. Sometimes things just come together in unbelievable ways. A friend of mine worked in the city of Antwerp and she had a Dutch-Moroccan colleague whose name was Bennawel Azuzat, which, especially with an Antwerp accent, sounds exactly like "oh man I'm so drunk". In another city this wouldn't have led to so much giggling. Teketeketeketeke posted:Eh, OED says "dick = penis" has been around at least since the late 1800s I think that connotation was widely popularised much later. Oddly in Flanders we have the same thing going on with the name 'Piet' (short for Pieter or Peter), which is slang for dick. I don't know of any Piets who were born after, say, 1980.
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Marcade posted:My first name comes from a neighbor's dog and my middle comes from another neighbor's cat, so... I think Dick Jones really was called Richard, Clarence says "Take a look at my face, DICK," after RoboCop beat the crap out of him at the warehouse, then later calms down and says "We could be friends after all... Richard." Anyway I have an OCP coffee mug, it rules.
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Feb 25, 2021 23:15
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Mescal posted:Most of those aren't names. Quintus, Sextus, and Septimus were praenomia. Ocavianus was a praenomen later, modeled after the nomen Octavius. They didn't refer to birth order, rather the month one was born in. Presumably one who could have been named the nonexistent Tertius was instead called Marcus. But this connection wasn't known by everybody in the Republican period--by then they had become just names, not necessarily named after month born any more. Apparently some women were named Prima, Secunda, etc, but I would guess these were less "names" and more an expansion of calling her Minor or Maior, with recordkeeping omitting a redundant-seeming first name ("everybody knows she'd be Julia, you don't need to write it down.") They were both praenomina and ordinal numbers. Don't you think that someone named Quintus wouldn't pause to think that the expression for, say, "the fifth soldier" ("miles quintus") would sound an awful lot like his name? Or what do you think Latin used for ordinal numbers? Like Russians, Romans had three names (usually), so that's why their praenomina didn't matter all that much in the long run of things. Postumus does mean "posthumous" by the way, it indicates the kid was born after his dad already died. So, yes, final, kinda, but not really.
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Lieutenant Lemony Lime
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rodbeard posted:I just remembered that guy named MegaZone who registered an account here to defend legally changing his name to MegaZone and immediately got banned for the stated reason of being named MegaZone. To date he's also behind the only redtext I've ever gotten, I think, and I didn't even burn him that badly on his obviously ludicrous name
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OwlFancier posted:old norse haugr (which I think also gives us "high") they're cognates but I don't think 'high' directly derives from 'haug' (consider Dutch 'hoog' and German 'hoch')
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Zudgemud posted:In swedish the word "hög" is used for pile/heap, small hill and high. So it might as well be the same word in some old vikingese dialects. Isn't "høy" in Norwegian (IIRC the pronunciation would be the same as you would write it "haug", at least in bokmål) also "tall"?
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Apologies for the double post, but I was putting my university's graduation announcements together and I am both sad and happy to say that one of the students has the first name of Semen. Let's hope he graduates cum laude
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Lady Disdain posted:I was going to suggest that it was probably the Russian name Semyen, but... There are two names that commonly get transformed into the English word Semen ? What a time to be alive There's also 'Siemen' in Dutch (pronounced, yes, as 'semen'), a variant of 'Simon'. And let's not forget former England goalie, David Seamen
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DemonDarkhorse posted:deareces What's this supposed to be? Dear Eces? Diaresis? Diarrhoea?
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:PYF Interesting, Cool, and Weird Names? Sure, I'm in favour
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Leocadia posted:Attila IIRC this is actually a fairly common name in Hungary, though
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Arivia posted:these two sound like henchmen in a D&D adventure 'Slagboom' is Dutch for a barrier of the type you see in e.g. secure parking lots and literally means 'beat-down tree' (cf. think of Afrikaans 'boomslang' which literally means 'tree snake'). I believe Russian imported 'slagboom' as a loanword even. But it's a weird last name regardless.
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deoju posted:I'm not sure if it is true or not, but I heard an origin story for weird as Dutch sur names. Before 1811 they used patronymics, like Jensen (John's son). Bonaparte invade the Netherlands and wanted people to have surnames for taxes and poo poo. The Dutch didn't take it seriously and made up weird poo poo to gently caress with the French, but they stuck. Phlegmish posted:It's a popular story in Flanders, where some people like to brag about how we (or specifically the County of Flanders/Duchy of Brabant) were already advanced, urbanized societies while 99% of the Dutch were still living in peat huts in the swamp. No, it's a myth: http://www.naamkunde.net/?page_id=162 (source is in Dutch though) Apparently many of the more comical Dutch last names were the result of forced 'dutchification' of foreign (most French, German or English) names.
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hyperhazard posted:Actual question: How do you keep track of your relatives when you follow this naming scheme? I don't mean following family trees back generations, I mean like "I need to give this letter to my second cousin Bjorn who lives in the next town. I don't know his father's name or where he lives, so just ask around for a Bjorn who has a sister with the last name Helgadochter." Or "I owe Hans Heroldsen twenty guilders. No, not Hans Heroldsen son of Herold Jansen, Hans Herolden son of Herold Larsen. No, not that Herold Larsen, the one whose father was Lars..." Mobility wasn't fantastic back in the Middle Ages, if you were born in an area chances were you would remain in it or at least have your home there for the rest of your life, so in an average small village, everyone knew each other and could go back a couple of generations in living memory. It's not a coincidence this system began to fade out first in populous cities. In your hypothesis, likely all three Hans guys would have a nickname of sorts, like Big Hans, Hans the Leper or Bald Hans (incidentally, some now fixed last names grew out of nicknames like that). Some Indo-European cultures (and presumably others, but my knowledge of them is very faint) kept the patronymic system but introduced a third name to denote sublineages or individuality.
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Male Tears posted:Tregory, maybe? Ser Tregor Gregrane
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These old-young cycles are also true for Dutch names. Like, no one in Flanders who is named Luc, Rita, André or Liliane is going to be younger than 50, while people with names like Jef or Jules are either over 80 or under 10. I myself have such a 'generational' name that clearly marks me as an elder Millennial - after 1988, almost no boys with my name were born here. It was my impression English did have a larger variety of "evergreen" names like John, William, Mary, etc.
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Phlegmish posted:I have fairly close relatives with this exact surname. It's basically the Dutch/Flemish equivalent of Cook. I must say that I have occasionally wondered if it ever gets awkward for them when they visit Anglo countries or interact with Anglo people. I had a colleague with this surname, and he had a brother named Dick (not an uncommon name in the Netherlands and to a lesser extent Flanders, for men born in the '50s and '60s). So yeah. Dick De Cock.
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