Mise
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Well all "traditional" names are just real words in some older language. I like the idea of inventing new names... (still not decided on my middle name though)
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Traitorfish
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True, but even then most of them were adjectives, usually describing some sort of physical or personal characteristic, or at least poetic references to such characteristics. They weren't just words for other, unrelated things that were repurposed as personal names because of their aesthetic qualities.
Cheezy the Wiz
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In a nation of 300 million, names like Joe Armstrong quickly become boring and blase. On the other hand, London Fletcher is an awesome-sounding name that people will remember, but not in the same way they would remember Apple as a first name.
madviking
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it's a wasp thing.
i know a guy whose name is his grandmother's maiden name. "the name can't die out!"
To be fair, it's not that common
Though I will agree that it happens way more than any rational case can be made for it.
Gamemaster77
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Laws against naming children? That seems rather silly.
There's a marked trend among my demographic towards unique names.
My cousin and her husband (both 5th and 6th generation Americans of British Isles descent) fancy themselves to be Irish, or as my wife and I affectionately mock, "Irish"-American. Get it?
They said they wanted to name their kids irishly, so we started naming all the irish folks we knew in our strongly irish immigrant area: john, James, James, big James, young Paul, tall Paul, declan, dermot, Mary, Maria, soccer James, Catherine, Carrie, old john, Danny, little James, Kevin, Louise, liz, Jerry.
Their children are lydon, keira, Edward (kennedy), naimh, and declan.
As for my wife and i, well, our names don't hyphenate yet we reject the convention of defining heredity through only one chromosome. I wanted it to be Grimshank, I was overruled. Our daughter has a last name which, from what we can tell, is unique in the world: Grimshane
For some reason I can't articulate, we like knowing that.
People born in Iceland are given patronymics by law, apparently.
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I know the French have an official list of approved boy and girl names that you have to use. Didn't realize other countries did that as well.
Don't know if we have such a list on our own, but it's somehow done like it too. I think they also utilize name lists from other countries.
e.g. it was allowed to name a baby San Diego, because San is a Japanese first name (Diego itself is obviously a first name too).
e.g. it was allowed to name a baby San Diego, because San is a Japanese first name (Diego itself is obviously a first name too).
madviking
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for curiousity's sake, who or what determines the list o' names?
There is usually a department for it in the government. They add new names once every year. The whole idea of the government controlling what parants may or may not name their offspring might seem odd, but its to protect the children from parents getting bright ideas like naming children "" or "Vagina" or "KoRn" etc etc..
And you can always apply to get a surden name approved.
An Icelandic friend told me that the patronymic "tradition" extends to every child born in the country who doesn't have an existing legal surname (i.e. you need to have a surname established in law, not just one you've brought from outside Iceland). Your offspring, if born in Iceland, would be Davíðsson or Davíðsdóttir, depending on their gender (assuming of course that your first name is David and that's how the declension is spelt).
madviking
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It's the same in Russia. My Russian birth certificate has me as First Эдуардович Last. Eduardovich in this case means 'son of Eduard', my father's name. If I had a sister, she'd be First Эдуардовна Last (Eduardovna, 'daughter of Eduard').
More confusing in Russian is gendered last names. This doesn't apply to non-Russian surnames (such as my own), but, for example, Vladimir Putin's (Путин
ex-wife was named Lyudmila Putina (Путина.
This causes a bunch of confusion when Russians emigrate to the US as some choose to keep the surnames distinct. For instance, one of my families that are friends with my parents have two Kiselyovs (Киселёв (father and son) and two Kiselyovas (Киселёва (mother and daughter), which causes problems with marriage licenses and airport security.
More confusing in Russian is gendered last names. This doesn't apply to non-Russian surnames (such as my own), but, for example, Vladimir Putin's (Путин
ex-wife was named Lyudmila Putina (Путина. This causes a bunch of confusion when Russians emigrate to the US as some choose to keep the surnames distinct. For instance, one of my families that are friends with my parents have two Kiselyovs (Киселёв
(father and son) and two Kiselyovas (Киселёва (mother and daughter), which causes problems with marriage licenses and airport security.
Lohrenswald
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There's a thing in Czechia that when a woman marries, she adopts the husbands last name and add "-ova" to the end.
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Iirc sons take the fathers name and daughters the mothers.
PlutonianEmpire
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For a two week vacation, if one travels somewhere and does something fun that invlolves actually leaving the hotel (or wherever one is staying at) on most of those days, do they actually feel well rested after coming back and returning to the daily grind?
Either way, what's the best thing one can do during that 2 week vacation so they actually do feel well rested or less stressed or w/e it is that supposedly boosts productivity or happiness or w/e after coming back?
Either way, what's the best thing one can do during that 2 week vacation so they actually do feel well rested or less stressed or w/e it is that supposedly boosts productivity or happiness or w/e after coming back?
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