- Hey Dinner! Breakfast's ready!
You can't do it right with names.
Well, phonetically, it means tschaina, dinner (evening meal) in romansh:
I know your real name? why on earth were you teased for it? it's a very normal name?
surely you should do the opposite, after all, with the laws of probability, if you've used up your quota of good Oliver's you're only going to have bad ones left...
Sometimes, it's not necessarily the name, that triggers the bulllying.
When you have to introduce someone - as I once had to - whose name is
Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax - then you really have a problem.
He was incidentally the younger son of the 17th Baron of Dunsany.
Name-dropper!................me? Surely not.
That's exactly right.
As for the "God" name & French speakers, they have Dieudonné . What nickname would on use? Dieu or Donné ?
We had a contractor at work named Jesus but he would say "Just call me Zeus". No point in being the son of God when you can be God.
Chicken and egg situation. I just remember finding the stuff they were saying about my name incredibly childish and lacking originality - and told them so. Bad move. I guess the mistake is that, as a kid, I hung out more with grown ups than other kids and didn't really understand kiddy rules.
You DO NOT know the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax's! Get out!
"Volvo....set the table please."
Nja.....doesn't work very well.
"Blitzkrieg Bop", "Wart Hog" or "Pinhead" ? (no offense !)
Zsa Zsa ?
John Turturro works at your place? Awesome!
Nope, still no cigar!
Tom
No, she named her China, but told the nurse she was going to call her god to p.o. the obnoxious nurse.
Tom
Why, what's "special" about Amber?
Tom
Oh! but I do, and the Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes's to boot although, luckily Ranulph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes wasn't at the same party as Earl Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax...........that might have been a tad too much.
Well, how are you going to label children's behavior anything other than childish?
I was bullied too as a kid..and that's just how it is..there are bullies and there are victims. A name can be a trigger, but if person (or child in this case) doesn't fit the alpha male/female's perception of cool (doesn't suck up to the weaker aggressor) then it doesn't matter whether your name is Waldemar or Steve.
(In addition, the victims usually turn out far better than the bullies. )
It's "special" when the parent giving the child the name have absolutely no connection to the Anglophone world beyond having heard the name in the film and pronounces the name in a way that sounds as if they were trying to lift a heavy object.
I'm not sure about Timmy and I might be wrong but Walter was the drip in the Beano.
Joey Deacon, an author with cerebal palsy, was featured on Blue Peter a few times to show was severely disabled people could achieve.
So only foreigners can have those foreign names? Swiss should only have good Swiss names?
If said person's family name is Gris and lives in Wales.
For ambergris is the excrement of whales.
Pick a name where you have some link to the culture. Hello magazine doesn't count. You're not naming a pet after all.