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Post by Ajeno on May 24, 2009 18:05:56 GMT -5
Yeah i would.... I use to date a girl named Chastity. Its not exactly an "ugly" name but i use to give her alot of crap over it lol. I take it you didn't get very far with her... lol....It was so long ago i dont remember much...She wasnt anything like her name suggested though..
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Post by ahliang on May 24, 2009 18:23:10 GMT -5
^ I love you, Gretchen, that made me laugh! but....is this thread serious? i just read the first and last pages but how could you discriminate on a name? if anything, i would think that if someone you love has a peculiar name it would make it all the more special and rather than find the name awkward you d like it even more because only that person you love would have it and it would remind you of that person alone! my name doesn t suit my physical appearance and i remember a bunch of guys in high school giggling at the sound of my name and truthfully, i was disgusted...how can you think of not dating someone because of their name? i have a hard time grasping what the OP s getting at.... I mean, what more explaining do you need? I thought the question was plain and simple: would you date someone with an ugly name? I was just wondering if a funny sounding name would turn you off. There are people who do care about those things. i don t... my question was rethorical. an unusual/weird/funny name would make the person all the more "special" i would think...my friend has this horrid extremely old fashioned name...i won t say her name because if you google it she s the only person to come up...yes...THAT unusual...but it s like: mandy-gertrude...people always poked fun at the second part of her name (gertrude) and because it s become like her trademark now she only uses the gertrude part anymore...because she was poked fun at i think, she used to go by her initials but she replaced the MG for gertrude alone. i think she s realised that although it can sound horrid to most, it s made her all the more endearing to those who know her as we all know who we re talking about when we mention that part of her name. i do understand that neither gertrude nor gretchen are smexily appealing names but i don t exactly understand how a potential turn off (which i would think would in turn change to become an endearing trait) can actually make one NOT date the person at all. that s where i was getting at.
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Post by helles on May 24, 2009 21:11:56 GMT -5
Gertrude. that name got me in trouble with one of my best friends back in HS. We were walking home from school one day and somehow talking about names we find ugly, and i said Gertrude as its such an oldy name. she got so mad at me cos her granny was called Gertrude, and by saying it was an ugly name, i was insulting her granny and her. she didnt speak to me for 2 days. ahhh High School.
i dont think names matter, by having an unusual/ugly name, it means you don't forget that person when you first meet and is a conversation starter. plus you tend to give each other little pet names anyway, so wouldn't need to use the 'ugly' name when addressing them.
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Post by rob on May 24, 2009 21:34:12 GMT -5
I think Hong Kong girl's names take the cake though..... so many weird ones that are very common e.g.,
- Queenie - Vancy
(they are the equivalent of Cheryl or Sharon in Singapore)
... and then there are the really odd ones e.g.,
- Apple - Diamond - Chewbacca
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Post by helles on May 24, 2009 21:41:18 GMT -5
heh. actually i feel sorry for the girl who dates Condom Lee. how do you introduce that to your friends?
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Post by TeeHee on May 24, 2009 22:49:18 GMT -5
I think Hong Kong girl's names take the cake though..... so many weird ones that are very common e.g., - Queenie - Vancy (they are the equivalent of Cheryl or Sharon in Singapore) heh, I've met a few Chinese girls name Queenie. I've had conversations with a few folks on what we'll call "western Asian names". They're not common names but they're of western origin, yet they're fairly common amongst Asian people. So far the only plausible theory I could think of is maybe their pronunciation is not too far of a stretch from a given Asian name. For example, the name Yvonne is not really common, yet I've met my fair share of Vietnamese girls with that name. It sounds similar to the Viet name "Y Van". Vivian is another one, in which their Viet name was "Vy". As for Gertrude, I knew of a girl with that name who'd go by "Gertie" instead, which does sound more modern.
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Post by meep on May 25, 2009 4:32:50 GMT -5
I think Hong Kong girl's names take the cake though..... so many weird ones that are very common e.g., - Queenie - Vancy (they are the equivalent of Cheryl or Sharon in Singapore) heh, I've met a few Chinese girls name Queenie. I've had conversations with a few folks on what we'll call "western Asian names". They're not common names but they're of western origin, yet they're fairly common amongst Asian people. So far the only plausible theory I could think of is maybe their pronunciation is not too far of a stretch from a given Asian name. For example, the name Yvonne is not really common, yet I've met my fair share of Vietnamese girls with that name. It sounds similar to the Viet name "Y Van". Vivian is another one, in which their Viet name was "Vy". As for Gertrude, I knew of a girl with that name who'd go by "Gertie" instead, which does sound more modern. I know a Vietnamese girl by the name of Vy too! There are a few Singaporean Cherly's in my Chinese class as well as some odd Asian takes on Western names such as 'Vinvian'. Hong Kong does seem to have weird takes on Western names too... many boys I've noticed are called 'Earnest' and 'Vincent'... one girl from Hong Kong was named 'Chanel' (Which could go either way... personally I find it rather tacky). Mainland Chinese tend to stick with less interesting, more common Western names such as 'Lily', 'Linda', 'Jessica', 'Lisa', 'Nancy', 'Jason', 'David', 'Michael'... I could go on... Oh, one thing annoys me when I tell Chinese people my name. They say: "Robyn? But that's a boy's name!"
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Post by waywardwolf on May 25, 2009 12:45:02 GMT -5
^ Robyn? But that's a superhero's name!
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Post by ahliang on May 25, 2009 14:21:04 GMT -5
haha...i know so many Cheryls...fewer Sharons but i ve come acrossa LOT of them...for some reason they all had a tendency to be slutty... i know oh so many Aloyscious from/in singapore but never met one outside of singapore/malaysia...i quite like the name in fact...
or ...all the Rita, Rachel, Chauncey i know are from China/HK/Taiwan...not to mention I-Lynn/Aileen, Venus and Chantel too...
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Post by Paddy on May 28, 2009 17:18:10 GMT -5
Slightly off topic, but I've often wondered why Dutch football (soccer) players have such odd western names - and presumably they're not the only ones to have odd names in Holland. Maybe its just the juxtaposition of the Dutch surname with Victorian sounding English given names?
Edwin van der Sar Robin van Persie Edgar Davids Winston Bogarde Dennis Bergkamp Clarence Seedorf Dick Advocaat Orlando Engelaar
The list goes on... My apologies to any of you called any of these names. (Robyn is a lovely name for a girl!!) Double apologies if your grandparents have these names.
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Post by Paddy on May 28, 2009 17:34:23 GMT -5
My ex-girlfriend's name is Starry. She's a mainland girl who picked her English name out of the dictionary. One of my buddy's in the UK used to take the p*ss out of her name. I have since broken up with Starry (not because of her name!), but my buddy is now together with a Canadian girl called Sunshine.
I wouldn't be put off going out with a girl if she had an 'ugly' name. It's hypothetical, isn't it. It's hard to say how you would really act under certain hypothetical situations.
My sister changed her name because she didn't like the name my parents gave her. She joined an Indian sect and adopted the name belonging to the Goddess of Learning (Vidyadevi). My Chinese aunts call her Video - hilarious. At least it makes them laugh. She was originally called Melissa, but apparently never felt attachment to the name. Understandable as it later came to light that Melissa had been the name of one of my dad's previous girlfriends. Bad boy.
He, himself, has a slightly androgenous name - Adrien. A mix between the boys' and girls' name. Perhaps more hermaphroditic than androgenous? He was lucky though. His brother was called Hillary. His parents might as well have called him Susan. He goes by Phil these days.
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Post by Uncle Hank on Jun 22, 2009 15:05:40 GMT -5
I agree about Hong Kong. People out here come up with the dumbest names.
I worked with a dude whose first name was Jackal. Someone at my gf's workplace is named Milky Mao. My gf also met some retard at work who's name was spelled Clive, but made sure people "correctly" pronounced it as Cleave. Makes me think of The Sopranos and Christopher's film, Cleaver.
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Post by jenbrook on Jun 22, 2009 15:34:48 GMT -5
^I know someone called tomato wu.
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Post by Paddy on Jun 22, 2009 16:59:07 GMT -5
My gf also met some retard at work who's name was spelled Clive, but made sure people "correctly" pronounced it as Cleave. Makes me think of The Sopranos and Christopher's film, Cleaver. Haha...reminds me of a student I used to have in China. Said his name was James...but spelled with a 'G'. Brilliant. Oh yeah, and I have an Aunty Chinky. yeah that's right. Well...actually it's Ching Kee, but sounds the same! She's lovely, but we still tease her.
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Post by helles on Jun 23, 2009 2:59:56 GMT -5
^ haha. i just came across a classic. made me LOL. Kinki Wong.
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