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Call all kids who are born in January "Jan". That way they are more likely to get gifts, cards, phone calls etc as people can't forget their birthdays.
February is a bit of a bugger, so I'd go for Fred and whatever the feminine of that is, March is ok, April needs a masculine or maybe a feminine,
May could be interesting, June a doddle, July could be Julie or Julius
and so on..
Native American naming tradition
http://www.psycholo...an-naming-tradition
[xandram, Jan 27 2014]
Medieval Saints’ Calendar
http://medievalist....calendar/months.htm
[pocmloc, Jan 27 2014]
[link]
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Well, the name of the months already came from
names of Norse Gods and others, so this is kind of
redundant. |
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Yes my nephew was christened Thor Augustus, it does raise eyebrows at school, there is another boy in his class with the same name but their birthdays are a week apart! |
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Just go with numbers for names, and use a 365 day
calendar. I'd probably name kids born on leap days
366 just to avoid confusion. |
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Naming convention can definitely be improved upon. I'd
prefer if names actually signified something about the
person given. Birthdate is one, but in a more meaningful
world names would signify something. |
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//I'd prefer if names actually signified something about the person given. |
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That could prove to be self-fulfilling, as a kid called Jerk.... |
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//months already came from names of Norse Gods |
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Erm, isn't that the days of the week? |
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Yeah, days of the week are Norse, well Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are. Sunday and
Monday are astronomical bodies, and Saturday is a
Roman god. |
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Months are mostly Roman/ Greek, but only a few are
gods (January, March, possibly April but it's a fairly
roundabout etymology if true, May, and possibly
June with a more direct etymology). |
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Cover all of October with ten codes. 10=4 good little buddy. |
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WE Used 10-100 for "Bear Attack". "Meet my Daughter "Bear Attack" She was born late in October right about New Years." |
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I'm obviously missing something, unless you did actually call your daughter "bear attack". |
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If I must clarify that I wrote //Norse and others// as
I wasn't looking it up at the time.
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I like the Native American view on names. [see link] |
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Anyway, facebook does the birthday reminders. |
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Actually I think this was well baked up to 1000 or more years ago with the widespread tradition of naming a child after that day’s saint <link> |
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//I like the Native American view on names.// |
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I distrust any source that treats Native Americans as
a monolithic entity. |
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That source isn't the only source for Native American
philosophy of naming. Distrust if you must. |
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//Native Americans as a monolithic entity |
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//If I must clarify that I wrote //Norse and others// as I wasn't looking it up at the time |
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That's ok, I make stuff up all the time too. |
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<hawks and spits on floor><falling intonation>Facebook?</falling> intonation> |
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