What's in a name?
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?? How was that a political remark? I actually think those names are kind of cool.
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WG, I can go along with ACE, Deuce and Trip. But the rest, nope. Don't care for quad either. I have known men with the name of Ace and Deuce. Sounds kinda male. Trip does too. NOT that a female cnnot be called Ace or Deuce or even Trip. Just never have run across any with those monikers.
Trig sounds all right. Better than 3/8ths Smith. Real name by the way.
Trig sounds all right. Better than 3/8ths Smith. Real name by the way.
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Alelou wrote:?? How was that a political remark? I actually think those names are kind of cool.
I think Rigil was referring to the insult to a well-known conservative implied by your statement. Your comment didn't sound like you "thought the names were cool". It sounded more like you thought that her penchant for naming her children unusual names indicated some intellectual deficit on her part. If that wasn't your intent, I apologize for the misunderstanding, but that's the way I saw it.
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Note to self: do not mention political figure here even in neutral way.
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Some celebrity saddled their kid with "Pilot Inspektor" spelled exactly like that. In comparison Tripp and Trigg are lovely names so I give kudos to the people who thought of them.
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This is probably a gross generalization, but it seems to me people out west are more likely to come up with creative names, or to use existing names creatively (i.e. start calling girls by names previously reserved for boys, like Addison). However, rather than fumbling for my personal stereotype of Westerners there, I used Sarah Palin as the easiest recognizable example I could think of.
I am hardly in a position to get snotty about it. My grandmother Thelma and her sister Mavis have names that were apparently original to popular novels of the late 1800s. One was called The Sorrows of Satan. Neither novel lasted, but the names are still around (if not very fashionable now). I can't help thinking this was probably the Victorian forerunner of the grand tradition today of kids being named after popular soap opera characters.
Jaime and I were going to name a girl Hannah if we ever had one, and I run into lots of Hannahs in my classes now. So we would have been just one of the crowds of people jumping on that name. It's not even a Spanish name; it just sounds really nice with his last name and we both liked it.
In Puerto Rico, people have been known to gratefully name their kids Usmail after the US Mail truck.
Anyway, I'm all for more Trips.
I am hardly in a position to get snotty about it. My grandmother Thelma and her sister Mavis have names that were apparently original to popular novels of the late 1800s. One was called The Sorrows of Satan. Neither novel lasted, but the names are still around (if not very fashionable now). I can't help thinking this was probably the Victorian forerunner of the grand tradition today of kids being named after popular soap opera characters.
Jaime and I were going to name a girl Hannah if we ever had one, and I run into lots of Hannahs in my classes now. So we would have been just one of the crowds of people jumping on that name. It's not even a Spanish name; it just sounds really nice with his last name and we both liked it.
In Puerto Rico, people have been known to gratefully name their kids Usmail after the US Mail truck.
Anyway, I'm all for more Trips.
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Alelou, in answer to your question. Tanja is supposedly a Russian name. In the U.S. it is spelled Tanya. Since my wife is German born she preferred the European spelling. Daughters name is Tanja Nicole (last name omitted) I preferred Nicole so had to settle for the middle name. I guess Tanja is ethnic. Probably slavic.
I like the name Clay, Dane or Stephen for a mans name. wish I had the brains to have my name legally changed to one of those when I was a lot younger.
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I like the name Clay, Dane or Stephen for a mans name. wish I had the brains to have my name legally changed to one of those when I was a lot younger.
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That name or close versions of it sure is widespread. There are lots of Tanias in Puerto Rico.
My favorite man's name is Ross. It's probably from over-indulging in Poldark novels in adolescence.
My favorite man's name is Ross. It's probably from over-indulging in Poldark novels in adolescence.
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At least you have an unmistakably male name. It's hard to have a name that can belong to either gender. I've spent most of my life explaining to people that my name isn't "short" for either Christopher or Christine. It is what it is. I was even paired with a boy for a French exchange program as a teen, even though the policy was same-gender pairing, because the person doing the pairing assumed I was a boy.
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Well Trip's "official" not to be confused with canon middle name is Anthony and I'm sorry but I'm devestated. I grew up in a large Sicilian/American family and every Anthony in my family is a nightmare. I'll just stick with David.
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I'm still wondering if it's canon beyond the novels. (Is it?) I wouldn't have figured that one for him, either.
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Re: What's in a name?
No it's not canon outside the novels thank God. I find it funny how people can turn you off to a name.
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One of the more popular girls name when I was a boy w as Beverly. Oddly it started out as a mans name. My Grandaghters name is Aiden. Lots of males name that. In Gaelic it means "Little Fire"
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I e-mail a lot at my work and it's sometimes very hard to find out if some one is a female or a male. Especially when they have a Frysian name (Frysian is only spoken in one province, but officially it's the second language). A first name was "Jenne", let's say Jenne de Vries and I wrote a e-mail starting with "Dear mrs. De Vries". I got a e-mail back that he prefered to be call mr. De Vries. To make it more confusing: I have an aunt, who is called Jenne (and female of course). So I mixed up genders a couple of times in my e-mails.Distracted wrote:At least you have an unmistakably male name. It's hard to have a name that can belong to either gender. I've spent most of my life explaining to people that my name isn't "short" for either Christopher or Christine.
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Just a FYI; Tanya (Tania) is diminutive form of the Russian Tatyana (Tatiana)
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