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setitetart
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posted August 03, 2007 07:39 AM |
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Last names can also be pain sometime.
In school we had proper English names in our classes and once i opened my big mouth and said to my class: "My last name would actually be Firehill or Burnhill if translated correctly" Everyone started laughing and after that i was always called Burnhill on English classes 
Could be worse but if your name is Jack Burnhill or Firehill what ever you are pound to get in to troubles 
I had never even thought about that, not as far as translations went.
Come to think of it, I don't even know what any of my last names mean.
But you are right it could be worse. LOL
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setitetart
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posted August 03, 2007 07:53 AM |
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Nice thread 
Thank you.
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I was named after my mother's grandfather. That wasn't unusual at the time, even though Ivo is still an uncommon name. I like my name, it identifies me, and I wouldn't want to trade it for any other name.
I have never heard that name. Different but I could like it.
I hear you there how you wouldn't trade it. I wouldn't trade mine either.
Where are you from?
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I've thought about names before, and not just what they mean and which words they are derived from. Though I have no solid logical explanation for it, it seems to me that people who share the same name share similar traits most of the time. I'm very much NOT into superstitious/unrational things, but there seems to be a pattern that is hard to classify as coincidence. I generally get along well with Frank's, but don't like to work with them. Melissa's are generally bright and intelligent, but rather distant and tough to get to know. Tom's are quite cheerful but can a bit timid or weird when they don't know you very well. Veronique's on the other hand are much more open, but can be pretty blunt at times.
I agree with you there as well.
I know a few Melissa's and would concur.
All the Tom's I have met are certifiably psycho. LOL
The ONE Veronica I know is a complete...{insert nasty name here}
Hauty and snotty and really not very pleasant to be around at all.
Tracy's are smart and level-headed
Liz's are usually good friends, loyal.
Elizabeth's are snots.
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The idea is weird, I know, and I'm not entirely convinced that there is more to it than mere coincidence. Perhaps I just notice the similarities in cases where it is obvious, and don't pay enough attention to people with the same name who behave entirely different. Then again, I started thinking about this for a reason, and the idea alone is worth exploring in my opinion.
Nah. I don't think the idea is weird at all. I have been watching that coincidence for awhile now.
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If this idea holds some truth, maybe it has something to do with the sound of a name, and the ways it can be used. With the latter I mean that some names ask for softer, some for harder abbreviations. Veronique could become Vero, which is tougher than the original name, while Frank might become Franky, which is softer. Perhaps the length, the brightness of the vowels, and the amount of consonants in a name play a role as well. We hear our name thousands of times while growing up. If you believe the form/shape and the sound of a name bears a charge, it's bound to have an influence on the development of our personality. Ivo for instance is an uncommon name, short and powerful, with very clear vowels. For a child, this means when anyone calls that name, there's no reason to look around to see if there are any other Ivo's around. It's a name that is softened easily, but since it's so short and powerful, the vowels can be stressed to express anger, miscontent, ... as well.
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I wrote some short stories in the past, am writing a book, and did some RP'ing every now and then. When I have a character in mind, I always try to find a name that fits the personality. Can't really explain how my choice is determined, but it has to feel right, and in character. A necromancer called Bart is just rediculous, and a prince charming named Kharad'um is completely wrong as well.
I write also. Character names I tend to stick with the basics. Old favorites rather than modern newbie names. I don't like the idea that any character I write out might be associated in any way shape or form to say, the likes of: Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan, or Paris Hilton. Male names I am equally careful about.
What genre/style do you write?
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Nidhgrin
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posted August 07, 2007 10:14 PM |
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I have never heard that name. Different but I could like it.
I hear you there how you wouldn't trade it. I wouldn't trade mine either.
Where are you from?
I'm from Belgium, Western Europe. Ivo's an old German name, but some more common variants are Ivan or Yves.
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I write also. Character names I tend to stick with the basics. Old favorites rather than modern newbie names. I don't like the idea that any character I write out might be associated in any way shape or form to say, the likes of: Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan, or Paris Hilton. Male names I am equally careful about.
What genre/style do you write?
I mainly write fantasy or horror, though I prefer fantasy by far. There's a link here if you like.
As far as character names are concerned, they just pop up in my head. I suppose they're composed out of parts of existing names of people and places, but I never really know where they come from.
Native Americans believed that names held some sort of power, as well some other cultures - even some more modern ones. I believe in groups of scouts and maybe other youth organisations, members are given a certain animal name as well...
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Setitetart
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posted August 08, 2007 08:08 PM |
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I'm from Belgium, Western Europe. Ivo's an old German name, but some more common variants are Ivan or Yves.
Ahhh, now the counterparts I have heard of.
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I mainly write fantasy or horror, though I prefer fantasy by far. There's a link here if you like.
As far as character names are concerned, they just pop up in my head. I suppose they're composed out of parts of existing names of people and places, but I never really know where they come from.
Native Americans believed that names held some sort of power, as well some other cultures - even some more modern ones. I believe in groups of scouts and maybe other youth organisations, members are given a certain animal name as well...
Awesome, thank you for the link. I will definitely have a look.
I don't know where my names come from either really...I suppose I just go with things that I think fit the character.
A lot of cultures believe in the power of a name and some as corribus stated even have 2 names, one for the gods to know...
Kind of neat really.
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Elvin
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posted August 08, 2007 08:22 PM |
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That was me And I doubt they do that anymore it was an ancient Egyptian tradition. In D&D if someone knows your true name he can bind you to his will but I don't know where they got that, my knowledge on this is superficial.
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Setitetart
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posted August 08, 2007 08:25 PM |
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Just for the BBBN girlies...
If you are stalking this post, and I am fairly certain you are, I am going to refer you to a different place so I can properly field your statements and ridiculous claims.
Ready to be put in your place?
You see...some things I simply can't answer here, because unlike your site, this place has rules...and I wouldn't take your baiting here anyway because I refuse to take any points or flack here due to you girlies and your vapid comments from afar.
Which by the way, I find incredibly amusing that you girls have the strongest, most ugly words when the threat is banned and, therefore not able to defend or even counter your crappy statements, and you can speak "freely".
Really nice way to operate. *snarks*
Doesn't bother me any...I will get the last word.
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baklava
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posted August 08, 2007 08:46 PM |
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Edited by baklava at 20:46, 08 Aug 2007.
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In D&D if someone knows your true name he can bind you to his will
I thought that only addresses to, like, demons and stuff 
I mean, imagine your younger sister binding you to her will all the time.
"Give me the PC"
"Lol"
"Come on, I have to install the new Sims expansion!"
"You installed a Sims expansion two weeks ago."
"This is the new one! The Gay Parade Edition!"
"You are SO not gonna play that on my PC..."
"This is MY PC too! Mom said so!"
"Is mom here?"
"No, she's at work"
"And dad?"
"He's at work too..."
"Then what's the problem? Nature teaches us that when mom and dad are at work, the strongest takes the PC. And in this case, it is quite clear that I am the strongest."
"You're an a$$hole!"
"Guilty as charged."
" *takes breath* THOU SHALT GIVE ME THY PC STEFAN!"
"...yes master..."
Horrible, isn't it?
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Elvin
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posted August 08, 2007 09:07 PM |
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Edited by Elvin at 21:08, 08 Aug 2007.
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Peanut awarded  No I treat my sis pretty well just in case!
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Setitetart
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posted August 08, 2007 09:22 PM |
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In D&D if someone knows your true name he can bind you to his will
I thought that only addresses to, like, demons and stuff
I mean, imagine your younger sister binding you to her will all the time.
"Give me the PC"
"Lol"
"Come on, I have to install the new Sims expansion!"
"You installed a Sims expansion two weeks ago."
"This is the new one! The Gay Parade Edition!"
"You are SO not gonna play that on my PC..."
"This is MY PC too! Mom said so!"
"Is mom here?"
"No, she's at work"
"And dad?"
"He's at work too..."
"Then what's the problem? Nature teaches us that when mom and dad are at work, the strongest takes the PC. And in this case, it is quite clear that I am the strongest."
"You're an a$$hole!"
"Guilty as charged."
" *takes breath* THOU SHALT GIVE ME THY PC STEFAN!"
"...yes master..."
Horrible, isn't it?
I was giggling at this, reminds me of my sister and I growing up fighting over the VCR when the parents were away.
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Setitetart
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posted August 08, 2007 09:24 PM |
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Peanut awarded No I treat my sis pretty well just in case!
I was just a mean sister. LOL
Of course, it wasn't like she didn't ask for some of it.
I suppose my sister should have been happy she didn't have a brother instead.
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posted August 09, 2007 04:35 PM |
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some people should not be allowed to breed
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand couple is looking to call their newborn son Superman - but only because their chosen name of 4Real has been rejected by the government registry.
Pat and Sheena Wheaton say they will get around the decision by the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages by officially naming their son Superman but referring to him as 4Real, the New Zealand Herald newspaper has reported.
The Wheatons decided on the name after seeing the baby for the first time in an ultrasound scan and realizing their baby was "for real."
They decided 4Real was the best way to write it, but the name was rejected because the registrar said a name had to be a sequence of characters.
Pat Wheaton said he was considering appealing against the decision through the courts, but whatever happens he won't be budged on his choice.
"No matter what, it's going to stay 4Real," Wheaton told the Herald, "I'm certainly not a quitter."
A spokesman for the Department of Internal Affairs, which operates the registry, told the Herald discussions with the Wheatons about their son¢s name were continuing.
The baby is now 2 months old. The Wheatons first applied to register his name in late June.
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Corribus
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posted August 09, 2007 06:02 PM |
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He may not be a quitter, but he's certianly a moron.
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Elvin
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posted August 09, 2007 08:04 PM |
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I had heard of that and still cannot understand. Why would you want your kid named like that..? Normally I'd think that everyone has the right to name his childer as he likes but 4real is totally out of place - even lame and superman is ridiculous as well.
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Homer171
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posted August 09, 2007 10:39 PM |
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Nice What happens when 4Real ask from his father to have his first car? "Get Real Superman!"
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Rakacha
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posted August 09, 2007 11:05 PM |
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strange, i thought that self made first names where elligal...for some unknown reason....anyway, i have a surname that also are made of 2 names. Hang on!
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It all started whit some poor pheasent's from poland, and a polish minority in ukrania, around the 1'st world war.
they mooved to neutral denmark, to avoid the war, and become wealthy
they worked hard, and had many children, including my grandfather (on my fathers side). Later on, the second world war began, and soon denmark was under the regime of Dictator Adolf Hitler and the nazi empire. Then a problem arised to my fathers side of the family (he wasn't born yet though) because we had a eastern european name, zenowskaja or something in that style.
so my gandfather, and his mom and dad, and all his siblings, decided that the family name should be replaced whit a new one. So we took the first and last part of 2 diffrent town names, and combined them to the familiy name i carry this day today, VOKSTRUP! 
funnily, we later found out that there where a farm whit the same name, but we refused to let the familiy that lived there, to have the same name as us
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i hope that i didn't kill somebody whit this
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Setitetart
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posted August 10, 2007 02:59 AM |
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Funny enough I heard about this one from that bad baby site a few weeks ago, but the "superman" part is new.
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He may not be a quitter, but he's certianly a moron.
Yep. thank that gods for a legal name changing process. LOL 4Real and Superman. Nice. If they were that much of Superman freaks why not just name the kid Clark Kent? Cheesy yes, but not nearly as dumb as putting a number in the kids name or naming him after a super hero.
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I had heard of that and still cannot understand. Why would you want your kid named like that..? Normally I'd think that everyone has the right to name his childer as he likes but 4real is totally out of place - even lame and superman is ridiculous as well.
I am with you there. That is probably the only thing I agree on with the women on bad baby names. They have lists of equally horrific names like "Genocide", "Aryan Joy", and "Chism". There were others, but those are the really bad ones I remember off the top of my head.
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Nice What happens when 4Real ask from his father to have his first car? "Get Real Superman!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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so my gandfather, and his mom and dad, and all his siblings, decided that the family name should be replaced whit a new one. So we took the first and last part of 2 diffrent town names, and combined them to the familiy name i carry this day today, VOKSTRUP!
That is a great story. I suppose that changing the name was something of a survival decision then right?
It isn't illegal, at least not here in the States, to name your kiddo something off the wall or just downright...well...wrong. Complete with misspelling, extra letters and god knows what they will come up with next. LOL Like Corribus' example of Lemongello and Orangello. LOL
Kooky people out there.
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Rakacha
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posted August 10, 2007 01:35 PM |
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so my gandfather, and his mom and dad, and all his siblings, decided that the family name should be replaced whit a new one. So we took the first and last part of 2 diffrent town names, and combined them to the familiy name i carry this day today, VOKSTRUP!
That is a great story. I suppose that changing the name was something of a survival decision then right?
Yes it was, because that the nazi goverment otherwise would had sent them to the "workcamps" in east europe. So yes, it was a suvival decision, and now the world has to deal whit me, my sister and my uncle ( my father unfortunatley perished years ago...)
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setitetart
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posted August 16, 2007 12:05 AM |
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Now THIS is stupid.
Some "goth" girl wanna-be is going to name her kid P.A.R.A.D.O.X.A.L.
Well, the official first name is Pandora.
Which all and all isa fine neame on its own...
BUT.
It is followed by 8 more:
Astraea Radagast Annextiomarus Dalía Ondine Xeziriq Amethyst L.
The L. is my last name and I'd rather not spell it out on a public board. All together that makes her initials PARADOXAL The total number of letters in her name will be 69.
We both put a lot of thought into her name. My favourite number(s) are multiples of 3 especially the number 9 and 27 but 27 names would take 3 times as long to figure out! I've always liked the name Pandora so that one was easy since Rayne likes it too. Astraea (which means star-maiden) is a greek goddess (who was the daughter of Zeus and Themis or of Eos and Astraeus) and was the personification of justice and went into the sky as the constellation Virgo. She'll be a Virgo when she's born so that works really well. We needed an 'R' name for the initials and Radagast was a wizard in The Lord of the Rings who had a special relationship to nature and I love those books so that worked nicely. Annextiomarus is the "Ann" name that is traditional of my family and also a Celtic form of Apollo and Rayne is part Irish and also loves Celtic things. Dalía is for Salvador Dalí, my favourite artist with an 'a' added on because it helped with the numerology and also Rayne liked it better than just plain Dalí. Ondine is the title of a They Might Be Giants song which is my favourite band. Xeziriq was a handle I made up and used in some places but never really felt was me (since I'm Raven!) but I love the name still so I want her to have it. Finally, Amethyst is both mine and Rayne's birthstone since we were both born in February.
Can we say whacked out of her freaking skull?
That kid is going to HATE her mother.
Want to see this one for yourself?
Her live journal
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posted August 16, 2007 12:16 AM |
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That kid will have a hard time remembering its name even without alcohol consumption
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setitetart
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posted August 16, 2007 12:20 AM |
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That kid will have a hard time remembering its name even without alcohol consumption
No lie there. LOL
My son just got his STEP tests back, and it made me think good god that PARADOXAL kid wont even have enough letter bubbles to fill out for school papers and tests. LMAO
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