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Proper Verbs
If you're going to name children after verbs... | |
I have noticed a convention seemingly peculiar to
Americans: naming their kids after verbs.
e.g. Flip, Chuck, Rip, Bob, Skip etc.
I think we need more of them and more complex
words. In fact, make it fun by throwing in polysyllabic
transitive verbs as well.
Cycle, Stroll, Troll, Regurgitate,
Bundle,
Perambulating, Annotate...
The world could be so much more interesting.
The_20Pangs_20Of_20Aphasia
[calum, Feb 14 2013]
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People here call their children abstract nouns such as Destiny, and then there's that whole stupid Mushroom debacle. I thought you meant the use of "proper" as in proper noun, i.e. verbs which refer to a single specific action. However, yes, it's good. If i had another child, i could call her Anna and [grayure] could change her surname to Tate. |
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How do you feel about names which are also transitive verbs? |
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I wonder if [Dr "Bob"] wil comment on this idea. |
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Technically, 'perambulating' is a gerund... |
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Flip, Chuck, Rip, Bob, Skip etc. are most always nicknames
for more formal Anglo-European names like Philip, Robert,
and Charles. Then again, I don't expect high understanding
of North American naming conventions from a land where
everyone's called 'Bruce' (and whose closest neighbors can't
recite their full names without genuflecting, waving a
machete, and sometimes consulting the family tree). |
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At one point I considered 'Chase' as a name for little
man. |
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Maybe some medical verbs... |
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"This is my son Amputate. We call him Tate for short.
His sister Irrigate is around somewhere."
Two minutes later: "Irri! Tate! Come over here and
stop hitting eachother before I get vexed. And
where is Vacci anyways?" |
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[21] Blue Ivy means Lucifer's Daughter in Latin.(written backwards) Google it, or name a kid Google.
Backwards=Eulb Yvi’ |
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Why aren't there more people called Patience, Chastity, Honour, or Uncongunted? |
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Well, UB, you and I both have names that are verbs, so why are you thinking this is not Well Baked?! |
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//a convention seemingly peculiar to Americans:
naming their kids after verbs// The English do it too
(Rodger). |
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Can't be long before someone names their brat
Google. |
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Actually, "Wikipedia" is quite a nice girl's name. |
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Actually Wikipedia, I like it. |
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I looked at it and figured it was one of your neologisms,
[Max]. |
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I never neologize when there's an F in the month. |
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And in any case, it would be 'incongunted'.
'Uncongunted' would be ingrammatical. |
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There's already a child called Google. |
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i met someone called Christian. Luckily he actually was of that faith, or you can just imagine explaining everytime. |
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Most apt name I've ever heard is Kurt Persson, as he was described as being so. |
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I read somewhere that the Germans have a list from which one must choose baby names. Probably nonGermans are exempted. I do agree that spelling a word backwards generally results in the cleverest name ever invented. |
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//i met someone called Christian// That's a very popular name. Surprisingly, Jew isn't. |
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//That's a very popular name// I have never met a person named “That”. |
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