Sunday, April 15, 2018

Amusing Moniker

Baby names that have funny meanings in different languages


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  1. That's a lot of unwanted names...
    But did you get a good name?

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  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindu_Dara_Singh
    http://vlasisku.lojban.org/vindu

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  3. This reminds me of an article about "silly" translations of car makes: initially, they wanted to name a certain new Rolls Royce design "Silver Mist"...until an astute employee pointed out that "Mist" means "Dung" in German...

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  4. Safe idea, unless they are Melburnians... It wouldn't go down well with the Kullin people John Batman massacred here when he colonised Melbourne

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    1. "kullin" translates as "dick(as penis, not name) has" in finnish:)

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    2. Does it? Then I guess Kullin is also off the table as a baby name!

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  5. Dunno if anybody is interested, but I wouldn't say that Vaughn sounds like 'stench' in Russian. Russian for 'stench' is вонь /vonj/, which does sound similar but has a palatilised final consonant. There is, though, a word sounding /von/, which is вон and means 'out' (but more like a direction; I guess it's an interjection? Not a frequently used word).

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  6. Batman? Like the city in Turkey? You might offend the Kurds by naming your child after the Turkish name for their city instead of their own name for their city.

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    1. Now he might choose Superman... Or Hulk...

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