Re: Moi, le Kou (was: verbs = nouns?)

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:08:47 -0800 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> In all of the Spanish classes i've had we *never* did this at all. I
> kinda
> felt like I missed out. But, my name doesnt get mangled much.
> BUT, i just asked a friend who speaks spanish what she thinks would
> be a
> good name for me, and she likes eithe Cesar, or Javier. So, i
> declared my
> pseudonym will be: Cesar Javier Jaime García.
> -
> Cesar Javier Jaime Garcia :)
-

I am proud to say that i had already been named Estéban at least 2 years
before ever taking Spanish. :-)  My Spanish-crazed older cousin
"Miguelita" (Michelle) started calling me and my brother "Estéban" and
"Alejandro" (Alan) and her little brother the same age as us Jeffrey
"Javier" early on.
Of course, whenever i call my brother "Álej" for short he tries to kill
me.
Also, anyone who has learnt the spanish rules of where you put accents
will notice that the smitchik in "Estéban" is *not necessary*.  But
that's the way my first Spanish teacher wrote it on the board the first
day of class, so that's how i write it.  It makes it look cooler. :-) .
My cousin went through many Spanish names during his 4 years of taking
Spanish with me (we were in the same class in highschool).  So sometimes
we called him by all of them together:  Jorge Javier Juan-Carlos!
And then there was the girl in Spanish III, who when she first started
taking Spanish never settled on a name, so the teacher just referred to
her as "Blanca" ("blank") until the name stuck.
I remember once i went to www.zhongwen.com and tried to come up with a
Chinese name for myself, but i never really figured it out, and kept on
referring to myself as long/huo\/ (i can never remember the correct tone
numbers... long1huo3?), "Dragonfire" (my old BBS handle and the source
for my hebraicized email address).  i used to draw the characters for
"wo(3?) shi(4?) longhuo" in my notebook when i was bored in highschool.
And then i used to try and make up sentences with all the different "ma"
words from my friend's Berlitz book.

-Stephen (Steg)
 "i swear, your mother's a hemp horse?!"