Weird Names.
By boisson
@boisson (256)
Hong Kong
September 3, 2009 7:25am CST
I created a discussion on the origins of mylot usernames, and well, I ran into this charming person who said that her boyfriend's name was NINE(9). Which of course sparked off a lot of thought about weird names where I live and how parents name their kids (:
where I live, English isn't the mothertongue of many, so when people name their children, they generally mispell them. Stanley becomes Stanlee, Jonathan becomes Johnethan, etc.
Course, some parents just stray off the common english names altogether, and now I see names like 'Million', 'Playground' and 'SwimmingPool' around Hong Kong.
It's very interesting (:
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@MissAmie (717)
• United States
3 Sep 09
All I can say is that if Playground or SwimmingPool ever migrate to the U.S. they will need to immediately change their names. Million isn't so odd here. That could be considered a reasonable name, but not the other two. Those kids would be mocked forever.
And speaking of Nine, I went to school with a boy named Seven. I always liked it.
@boisson (256)
• Hong Kong
4 Sep 09
Seven! (:
Well, that's a little better than Nine :3 At least Seven is a lucky number, and I'd much rather be called Seven than Lucky (:
And well, the actual funny thing is, that Million is a real estate agent (: And that his Chinese name translates to "Five Hundred Thousand" (:
Heheheh.
