Few
weeks ago we spoke about names and their meanings. It made me remember that
every year in Latvia there is an article about funny names registered.
For
example, there are names like:
Adverts
(from the word „advertising”);
Atoms (word „atom”);
Staļina (from the surname of Joseph Stalin who was the dictator of the Soviet Union);
Galaktions (from the word Galaxy);
Iluminate (from the word „illuminati”);
Fortunate (from the word „fortune”);
Žikivators [zhikivator] (I don’t know where the hell they found a name like this)
etc.
Staļina (from the surname of Joseph Stalin who was the dictator of the Soviet Union);
Galaktions (from the word Galaxy);
Iluminate (from the word „illuminati”);
Fortunate (from the word „fortune”);
Žikivators [zhikivator] (I don’t know where the hell they found a name like this)
etc.
However,
what I want to empathize with this blog, is that in my opinion the name of the
person is more than important and it should not be just silly caprice of
parents.
+ most of these words are anglicisms, directly taken from English with added common endings of Latvian words.
+ most of these words are anglicisms, directly taken from English with added common endings of Latvian words.
So it makes me wonder - does the person with this kind of name will really feel himself/herself Latvian?
Even
more – it was so lovely to get to know the roots of my name in the lesson. I
don’t think that I would feel thrilled to get to know that I have named in
honor of dictator of Soviet Union or something even worse.
Is
this trend common in Your countries as well?
:D Fortunatelly not! :D That's crazy :D I heard that some Hollywood celebrities do it - name their daughter "Apple" etc., but I never thought that common citizen would do it :D The world is definitelly going crazy, I'm just waiting, when this fashion comes to Czech Republic, OMG! :-O :D
ReplyDeleteJitka, I am not sure if you should wait for that, because it is really illogical fashion :D Every time when I see articles about funny names in Latvia, I have this "WTF" feeling, I cannot understand why parents want to disgrace their kids. Of course, in the first moment it is funny, but if we think about it serious, then it is pretty sad, all life for their children will be full of comments and questions. If my parent would gave me a name like this, I would change it for 10000%, but Iam soo happy that they were smart enough and gave me a normal woman name :)) But yeah, Latvians are strange, it is for sure :D
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