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mynxcat
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response 46 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:39 UTC 2002 |
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giffofwh
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response 47 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:41 UTC 2002 |
I am a newuser in the syetem. Harry Potter is a good film for children or
Adults of fatastiy dream.
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remmers
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response 48 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:45 UTC 2002 |
Re #46: Nobody seemed to think that Ginger Rogers' name was weird.
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gelinas
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response 49 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:52 UTC 2002 |
The English have long named their daughters for flowers and herbs.
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orinoco
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response 50 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:57 UTC 2002 |
Malorie, I'm told, means "misfortune" in French (malheurie). People name
their kids all sorts of seemingly-odd things.
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jmsaul
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response 51 of 289:
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Oct 22 03:26 UTC 2002 |
Names like that were traditionally to keep evil influences away from the
kid by convincing them that the kid is already accursed, or something like
that.
Re #48: Names go in and out of style. Nobody thought it was weird to
name a child Prudence once upon a time either. Or Mildred.
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mdw
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response 52 of 289:
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Oct 22 03:27 UTC 2002 |
The major problem with Ginger would be getting confused with a certain
bunch of castaways in TV-land. "Dream" on the other hand, would be a
definitely unusual name that does not have completely positive
attributes in English. "He's a dream" may be considered complimentary
when uttered by 50's girls, but "he's a dreamer not a doer" is
distinctly less complimentary. I'm sorry to say that Sapna, itself,
would have other unfortunate near-ringers in sound or spelling, such as
saponify, to convert into soap (often a smelly and somewhat grisly
process), or "sappy" - which itself is unreasonably close to "dreamy" in
meaning.
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mynxcat
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response 53 of 289:
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Oct 22 04:08 UTC 2002 |
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gelinas
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response 54 of 289:
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Oct 22 04:15 UTC 2002 |
She was named Virginia Katherine McMath at birth. After her parents divorced,
she lived for a while with her grandparents, where one of her cousins had
trouble pronouncing "Virginia" and took to calling her "Jinja". Later, her
mother married Logan Rogers, and Ginger took her step-father's surname. See
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Ginger/ginger-bio.htm for more
information.
So no, it wasn't the name given her by her parents, but neither was it a
'stage name.'
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mynxcat
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response 55 of 289:
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Oct 22 04:21 UTC 2002 |
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mdw
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response 56 of 289:
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Oct 22 04:50 UTC 2002 |
"Supna" is even worse to English ears.
Here's a web page by someone whose given name *is* Ginger, who gets
quite upset when people refuse to use it:
http://pub141.ezboard.com/feverquestpeoplefrm7.showMessage?topicID=400.top
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I can understand her frustration. I meet a significant number of people
who somehow short-circuit "Marcus" into "Mark", and insist on calling me
that. "Mark" is a perfectly fine name, it's just not mine. As if that
weren't bad enough, I know one person, of Indian extraction, who somehow
manages to further map this into "Mike". That's far enough away from me
that it doesn't even begin to wake the "somebody said my name" nerve
when I hear it.
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cmcgee
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response 57 of 289:
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Oct 22 05:27 UTC 2002 |
*grin* and my son Mark, was forever being called Marcus, in some strange
racial stereotyping.
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jmsaul
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response 58 of 289:
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Oct 22 13:14 UTC 2002 |
Re #56: Not to mine. But then I regularly talk to people who aren't
white Anglo-Saxons, and I've traveled to foreign countries and
actually -- I know this is amazing -- speak some foreign languages.
So I guess I'm weird.
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slynne
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response 59 of 289:
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Oct 22 13:55 UTC 2002 |
I dont know why people get bent out of shape about names anyway.
Personally, I think Ginger is a perfectly fine name for a cat or a
person. I probably wouldnt name a child of mine, "Ginger" but that is
because I have a cat named Ginger and I wouldnt want my kid to think I
named her after a former pet. I wont be naming any of my children:
Killer, Shadow, Fonzie, Fred, Brooke, Crissy or Heironymous for the
same reasons although I think Fred, Brooke and Crissy are perfectly
nice human names.
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edina
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response 60 of 289:
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Oct 22 14:00 UTC 2002 |
Thanks!
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mynxcat
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response 61 of 289:
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Oct 22 14:47 UTC 2002 |
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anderyn
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response 62 of 289:
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Oct 22 15:20 UTC 2002 |
What's it about Ginger that bugs you so much, mynxcat? Seems like a lot of
furor over a name that's non-standard, certainly, but not outre.
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mynxcat
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response 63 of 289:
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Oct 22 15:23 UTC 2002 |
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jazz
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response 64 of 289:
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Oct 22 15:26 UTC 2002 |
Plant names aren't uncommon at all for women. Ginger, Ivy, Heather,
Rose, etc.
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mynxcat
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response 65 of 289:
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Oct 22 15:30 UTC 2002 |
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lelande
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response 66 of 289:
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Oct 22 19:00 UTC 2002 |
X-men ended too early.
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gelinas
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response 67 of 289:
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Oct 22 19:06 UTC 2002 |
(Lots of us are *very* literate. Right off hand, I cannot think of any use
of "a" that sounds like /u/ in English. Folks who see your name written
before they hear it pronounced are at a definite disadvantage. The only ones
likely to get it right consistently are those who learned it by hearing, and
used it often, long before they saw it in writing.)
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slynne
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response 68 of 289:
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Oct 22 19:10 UTC 2002 |
That is really funny. I mean it isnt ingrained into my head as a cat's
name and my cat's name *is* Ginger. heh.
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gull
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response 69 of 289:
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Oct 22 19:16 UTC 2002 |
Ginger isn't that bad. I mean, considering people have named their kids
things like Scout and Moon Unit and Crickett.
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anderyn
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response 70 of 289:
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Oct 22 19:28 UTC 2002 |
Nope, I never got that Ginger was strictly a cat's name, either. (Mittens,
on the other hand, or Socks. THOSE are strictly cat names. Well, maybe dog
names, too.) It's not a common female name, but who am I to talk? I'm *Twila*,
and I named my daughter *Rhiannon*... So I am used to a certain amount of
non-mainstream in my female names. What really bugs me is the whole raft of
non-standardly spelled and/or formerly male names that are very common
nowadays for girls. Ginger would seem old-fashioned in contrast. And quite
refreshing.
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