Re: OT naming customs
| From: | nicole dobrowolski <fuzzybluemonkeys@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 9:02 |
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--- Tristan Alexander McLeay froge sionk:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Dan Jones wrote:
>
> > Also, what's the story behind people's names on the list? Are you
> named
> > after family members, or otherwise??
>
> My first name, Tristan, is just a name my parents both liked. My
> mother's
> first choice for my name was `Felix', but my father hated that.
> (Some
> believe that the fact that there was a chance of me being named
> `Felix' is
> enough to account for my oddities ;)* ).
<shnip>
>
> * _Felix the Cat_ is an umm.... very odd cat...
>
well the story of my name is nowhere near as interesting as almost
felix here (though i am a big fan of the name tristan because of its
association with arthurian legend :)...)... my parents named me
nicole mainly because they like the name... but my dad also has this
thing where he thinks people named nicole should have dark hair and
eyes... i'm not quite sure where he got that from though because most
of the other nicoles i've met have fair hair or are outright
blue-eyed blondes...my middle name is also one they picked because
they happened to like it as well as my sister's first name (though
they chose to spell it 'michele' with only 1 'l' which causes her
extra troubles... not only do people misspell her last name but they
misspell her first name too... of course my mom's friend 'aunt'
eileen seems to think i spell my name with an 'h'(nichole) for
unknown reasons... the only real trend in my family come from the
dobrowolski side... they seem to have a thing for the name edward...
my grandfather was 'big ed' my dad is 'little eddie' and then there's
'father eddie' (a priest) and 'cousin ed' and a couple others who
don't have convienient nicknames...
obconlang: in narethanaal your name is whatever you call yourself...
spelled the same way and pronounced the same way... even though
technically my own name wouldn't exist in the language because
orthonographically (sp?) there's no 'c' and phonologically there's no
/I/...
...nicole
"fiction reveals truths that reality obscures." --Jessamyn West
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