What should the dog be called ?

[NickyJ]

I don't give a darn what they call him. I think that there are greater matters in society other than what a dog's name is going to be in a remake of a movie. I mean, really? Boy, must have been a slow news day.

 

[Boundless]

Ah they should totally just call the dog Boundless.

 

[Babbler]

They should call the dog Afro-American (with caps!!!)

 

[Lillefix]

I feel people think too small here. What if something similar happened to a Shakespeare play, what if someone felt forced to change the words in the play because the meaning of the words change. Should they?(someone probably already have though)

I remember there were a lot of bruhaha and baluba in Norway when they retranslated Pippi Longstocking. Her father used to be a "negro king" but they changed it into "southern sea king"(and even now five years later, many people on Norwegian forums sarcastically refer to black people as southern sea kings ).

 

[GinandTonic]

They should call the dog Afro-American (with caps!!!)

Where does American come into this

 

[emzie]

Because that was the dog's real name. I had a cat named Blackie. It was black. This dog was black, and had the Latin name for black. Hooray PC!

Isn't it niger in Latin? And even then, was the dog's master a Theology major or otherwise fluent in Latin?

 

[warpus]

Maybe the dog spoke Latin?

Either way, what's going to happen here is the free market is going to step in and pick a name that's going to make the most money. And that name is not going to start with an N and end with an R.

 

[Skwink]

Cry about it. I wouldn't be offended of they named the dog Cracker or something.

 

[otago]

Isn't it niger in Latin? And even then, was the dog's master a Theology major or otherwise fluent in Latin?

Guy Gibson was public school( private boarding school) educated so the chances he took Latin as a subject was high in the thirties.

 

[_random_]

Isn't it niger in Latin?

That's the spelling, but g's are always hard in Latin.

 

[otago]

What they should do is name the dog trigger for the film in the US market and it's real name for the Commonwealth countries.

 

[Traitorfish]

What they should do is name the dog trigger for the film in the US market and it's real name for the Commonwealth countries.

Setting aside the impracticality of that solution, are you not aware that we have people of African descent in these countries also?

 

[Skwink]

Setting aside the impracticality of that solution, are you not aware that we have people of African descent in these countries also?

They don't count.

 

[bhsup]

Guy Gibson was public school( private boarding school) educated so the chances he took Latin as a subject was high in the thirties.

Yeah, my grandma took Latin in high school in Kansas City in the 30s as well. Folks were just better educated back then.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I wouldn't be offended of they named the dog Cracker or something.

Why would you? Crackers are a nice thing.

Yeah, my grandma took Latin in high school in Kansas City in the 30s as well. Folks were just better educated back then.

But not at spelling?

 

[Traitorfish]

Yeah, my grandma took Latin in high school in Kansas City in the 30s as well. Folks were just better educated back then.

Does Latin really mean that they were better educated? My parents did Latin too, but that was just because they went to a mick school that clung onto these things a bit longer, for obvious reasons.

Edit: Hey, there's an answer- call it "Mick"! You keep the ethnic slur element, but it's not quite as blatant.

 

[Tristan_C]

The Dog Formerly Known As N*****

 

[GinandTonic]

@ ss - Riveta are not a nice thing. Now Carr's...

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I'm sorry, but I'm not too familiar with British crackers. Those were Graham crackers, which make for a nice sweet snack.

 

[GoodGame]

They should name the dog....."Honkey".

Then whenever the bust a dam they can pull out a Marx brothers horn and "honk it".

GET IT???




EDIT: Anyway, why not name the dog "Hun"? Would Churchill approve?