Post subject: Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 10:41 am
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I used to work in a library and one poor unfortunate junior member was called Piers Mycock!
Did his parents not think before christening him or did they have a sick sense of humour
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Post subject: Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:35 am
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Post subject: Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:22 pm
The Video Ref
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carl_spackler wrote:Speaking of Hull Uni and names, I used to know somebody who worked there in admissions who told me that a lot of the students with traditional chinese names tend to adopt an English name rather than have people mangling the pronunciation of their real name. Apparently they had a tendency of using what they thought would be common, traditional names from classic English literature (Dickens being a popular choice), resulting in a few old names that aren't particularly in common usage any more after all, such as Henry/Henrietta, Walter, Frederick, Cecil and the like. Quite a few Roses as well, although that does seem to have had a revival anyway since the return of Dr Who.
When I was studying elsewhere with some chinese students they went by similar names too, so it seems like she was right. I'll always remember William being mad as a box of frogs.
This is not uncommon. Asians do the same. For simplicity and also for business reasons.
Post subject: Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:25 pm
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carl_spackler wrote:When I was studying elsewhere with some chinese students they went by similar names too, so it seems like she was right. I'll always remember William being mad as a box of frogs.
A lot of Chinese adopt western names that sound something like their Chinese names.
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Post subject: Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:43 pm
Rooster Booster
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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:I don't mind there being "rules". We have "rules". I just prefer our reactive system to ludicrously proactive systems where you actually have to have every name pre-approved. Which means basically you can ludicrously only use names someone else used first. This is ludicrous, because I can use "Gudrun", or whatever, through the happy chance that the "naming committee" only came into existence after someone came up with it; but had it been the other way round, then I couldn't, as you can't "invent" a new name. That is just silly.
The only issue should be a sane assessment of the welfare of the child, and nothing else.
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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:I don't mind there being "rules". We have "rules". I just prefer our reactive system to ludicrously proactive systems where you actually have to have every name pre-approved. Which means basically you can ludicrously only use names someone else used first. This is ludicrous, because I can use "Gudrun", or whatever, through the happy chance that the "naming committee" only came into existence after someone came up with it; but had it been the other way round, then I couldn't, as you can't "invent" a new name. That is just silly.
The only issue should be a sane assessment of the welfare of the child, and nothing else.
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