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"Fahrfurnugen". I'm series. |
Posted on 03/30/2006 12:41:35 PM PST by twippo
Great thread- well written article- bumping for later reading.
Well, Jimmy was bigger than his older brother. West Texas, both blonds.
Here's a whole web site devoted to bad baby names.
http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/
Gee, Ho and Bitch seem to be popular black words. Why not use them as names and save all the trouble!
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"Fahrfurnugen". I'm series. |
Gives a whole new meaning to "Its a small world", huh?
No, you didn't.
Well last names don't count. Back during the European immigration wave, people's surnames were cut short, and/or changed for convenience by government officials. Others did it themselves, because their last name was Capone or Kennedy ;-)
The author of this piece is pointing out the living horrors kids names have become. And that isn't limited to blacks. I've rolled my eyes at what my fellow white folks name their offspring. They think they're being crafty and original, but it comes off being illiterate. I named my kids after family and saints....which in my family is one and the same, lol!
Please don't take most of the posts as racist, Cyborg. Names such as the ones mentioned, are ridiculous, and pigeonhole the bearer. Would you name your baby Shaquandika, or Brytnee? Of course not! ((hugs))
You ever click on "view replies?"
You might want to try it for post #6.
Sounds like a name for a new analgesic.
Just one? You must not be from the Deep South. ;-)
It seems that as soon as a name becomes popular for girls, people quit giving it to boys. Besides Shirley, Lynn, Evelyn, Marion, and Gale used to be boys' names. We're not likely to see anyone giving their sons those names now.
My James & Jimmy were in south Georgia, & have black hair & brown eyes.
Or Utah.
I worked with a black woman (I'm retired now) that was always talking "my love" this and "my love" that. I thought she was just an extremely friendly person who attached "my love' in any given sentence. Then I found out that "my love" (spelled MyLuv) was the name of her kid! Boy, that threw my for a loop. LOL. Put a whole new light on my conversations with her.
It's possible that "Nikaule" is a variant from "Nicholas," which is of Greek origin. Lots of linguistic transmission in those days, and there were many Christian communities in Africa and Arabia.
my = me
Those names wouldn't occur to me but names like Leslie are popular for boys in England and the Caribbean. I want to name one of my girls Giovanna but Petronski disagrees. I am half Italian and love Italian girl names but people STILL think mafia. Doesn't matter to me. My father used to resent the famous Italians who would change their names just because of anti-Italian prejudice. Back to the thread topic at hand though. I've lived in a predominantly black neighborhood where there ARE people actually named Laquita. I'm used to it and so I don't get the whole 'black names indicate social disease' mentality considering many of the names are from the bible.
I have to say, I think they're mostly just trying to keep up with the surnames what some of us crackers are saddled with:
In my case a unpronouncable Germanic monstrosity that doesn't fit in any of the fill-in boxes for paperwork and spoken correctly sounds like it was produced by a consumptive bulldog with a speech impediment.
At least my parents refrained from naming me Helga in some kind of ancestor-worshipping sadism.
(I can't WAIT to get married...)
Interesting, so the Queen was from Greece, Arabia, or Ethiopia. I guess we just don't know.
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