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Its not nice to laugh..., (funny names) |
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Pisces |
Jul 12 2006, 12:47 PM
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Knower
Joined: 20-November 05
From: New Zealand
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...but its so fun, I just got sent the lab streams out to me with everyone in my biology class's name. So many funny names, lots of Asian names which most of you would find funny if your not used to them, but I have plenty of Asian friends so Asian names are just normal to me now. BUT: Amadeus Rainbow, Ae (I want to call my kid that) Ryou, Izat Awg Kasum, Bazz Doak, Iwan Isherwood, Micheal Tubby (hope he's not fat); normally I wouldn't mention it, but the list keeps on going and going like that, 250 people and only about 30 of them have normal names.
My name has recieved a few laughs, my last name being Willyams, fairly normal name except it has a y instead of the normal Williams, now I won player of the year for Hockey once, I get a trophy ingraved to me, my last name spelt wrong, no big deal, I'm used to have it spelt wrong on all sorts of things, except they didn't spell it the usual Williams, they spelt it Wylliams, so somewhere along the line when they got my subs form where I wrote out my name and they messed it up when passing it along to another person.
Yes, this thread has no point, I just had to vent laughter, I think I will be more friendly with people in my biology class from now on and ask their names.
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jack cloudy |
Jul 12 2006, 06:21 PM
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Master
Joined: 11-February 06
From: In a cold place.
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My family name is common here in the Netherlands, but it is surprisingly accurate. It's de Vries, which can be freely translated into the Freeze. ( vriezen equals to freeze, so yeah.) My hands are always surprisingly cold and freeze easily. Oh, I forgot about my last math teacher. He's called Meesters, which can be translated as Teachers if you translate it's primary(?) school meaning. A funny coincidence, considering his profession. We always called him meester Meesters ( teacher Teachers) for fun. This post has been edited by jack cloudy: Jul 12 2006, 06:24 PM
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Lord DoomsDay |
Jul 12 2006, 11:24 PM
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Joined: 18-May 06
From: Pta. South Africa. Ya we have Computers
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We also have alot of netherland surnames here, de Vries, de Beer ( the bear), de Kok ( the cook), de Bruin (the Brown) Mine is van Rooyen, think it means from red, not sure tho. A buddy of mine has a surname that sounds cool in english, van der Walt. The native africans ( if I may put it that way and not call some one black and offend them) some times use english words as names for their children, so names like, Sunshine, Gift, Presstios (sp?) of course you will also get Suprise and Enough.
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Channler |
Jul 13 2006, 04:11 AM
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Joined: 20-March 05
From: Nashville, North Carolina
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QUOTE(Lord DoomsDay @ Jul 12 2006, 06:24 PM) We also have alot of netherland surnames here, de Vries, de Beer ( the bear), de Kok ( the cook), de Bruin (the Brown) Mine is van Rooyen, think it means from red, not sure tho. A buddy of mine has a surname that sounds cool in english, van der Walt. The native africans ( if I may put it that way and not call some one black and offend them) some times use english words as names for their children, so names like, Sunshine, Gift, Presstios (sp?) of course you will also get Suprise and Enough. If thats so.. I'm gonna be offended if you call me white then Anyways I do find the names here in my quaint little town to be odd.. And it nominally comes from the black community.. Like an odd mix of islamic flavoured names with a hint of.. something.. I'm as basic as it comes, Nicholas Hattaway.. I guess Hattaway is english.. idjk
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Pisces |
Jul 13 2006, 11:32 AM
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Knower
Joined: 20-November 05
From: New Zealand
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If I were a Romanian in highschool, then I would be a bully, picking on kids with funny names, especially Rusu, everyday I would ask him where in Russia he is from. QUOTE(Ibis @ Jul 13 2006, 10:56 AM) I have a Chinese friend named Hazel Sun. I've always thought that is such a cool name. No one ever forgets it. Gotta picture a greenish/yellow sun up in the sky. When she leaves you a note she just signs it 'Hazel...& a little drawing of a sun' .. so cute. Everyone calls her Sunshine as a nickname.
A girl at my high school was called Insun Moon, spelling is probably wrong, but when teachers were reading out the role for the first time all the names were last name first so they would called out Moon insun, don't know why I found a solar eclipse funny, but everytime I heard it I was laughing inside, only inside of course, she was a nice girl. PS: I can't believe this thread got replies, when posting I was expecting it to sink into neglectful rejection. This post has been edited by Pisces: Jul 13 2006, 11:36 AM
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Ibis |
Jul 13 2006, 11:18 PM
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Mouth
Joined: 30-March 06
From: Florida Moon-filled Sleepless Nights
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QUOTE(Pisces @ Jul 13 2006, 06:32 AM) PS: I can't believe this thread got replies, when posting I was expecting it to sink into neglectful rejection.
Well you always were one to stir up trouble, knowing human nature so well and how to "needle" people. I don't personally think you are tall enough to be a bully, oh wait ... 6'3"... I guess that is tall enough. Okay, then - you smile too much when you are teasing people. Probably all the wine drinking. I forgot to mention my Bible teacher at my church. His name is Forrest Sky - really. Some of the other Seventh Day Adventists seemed to have 'picturish' type names, but his is the only one I can think of right now. Nice people though.
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Aki |
Jul 15 2006, 12:15 PM
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Mouth
Joined: 10-March 05
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Heh. I once had a sub teacher named "Mrs. Boner". It was pronouced "BON (like BONfire) ER" instead of BO-NER, but it was still funny. My name isn't all that funny. And when translating the various parts, its' actually kinda cool. Both parts seem warrior/battle related... QUOTE I actually find it really cool that European names or surnames have meanings. Both my surname and my name are of Scottish decent but I have no idea if they're supposed to translate into something, I'm pretty sure they're not Celtic or anything... You can always look them up at 20,000 names.comI managed to find the meaning of my name off there.... Its kind of amusing, learning the meanings of some names. Like how some are...incredibly literal. Williamson or Harrison, for example, literally mean "Son of William" or "Son of Harry".
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