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Wikipedia has several other articles about interesting naming systems, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_

by bradrn 3y ago

Wikipedia has several other articles about interesting naming systems, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_names (traditionally exactly one syllable long) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_name (in East Asian tradition, each generation gets the next syllable of a poem) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_naming_conventions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_naming_conventions (comprised of three parts, not two) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_names (surname is written first, unlike most European names)

ChainOfFools 3y ago
Traditional Japanese naming for boys, not followed as widely these days as in the past literally just gives each kid a number ordering them by cardinality. Ichiro = first son, Nichiro = second son, Saburo = third son and so on. I remember watching a TV show or maybe a movie from the black and white rerun era, where a stereotyped Asian father addressed his boys not by name but by number, as first son and second son and so on. I thought at the time this was some kind of ignorant caricature of the traditional primacy given to the first male child of a family, though not at all exclusive to Asia rather overtly expressed there. I was quite surprised to find out later on that this was a pretty straightforward calque of a genuine custom.
- ithkuil 3y ago
  Not that uncommon in some parts of Italy to meet old people named "Primo", "Secondo", ... A friend of mine had a grandmother called "Finimmola" (let's stop it), the youngest of 8. The seventh was "Ultimo" (last)
- wodenokoto 3y ago
  Isn’t that also a plot point in “your name”? > where a stereotyped Asian father addressed his boys not by name but by number That really shouldn’t make its way into the translation
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rolisz 3y ago
sigh why are Hungarians so special? It created confusion in my mind as to which one is the first mind (I'm half Hungarian)

by bradrn 3y ago

ChainOfFools 3y ago

Traditional Japanese naming for boys, not followed as widely these days as in the past literally just gives each kid a number ordering them by cardinality. Ichiro = first son, Nichiro = second son, Saburo = third son and so on. I remember watching a TV show or maybe a movie from the black and white rerun era, where a stereotyped Asian father addressed his boys not by name but by number, as first son and second son and so on. I thought at the time this was some kind of ignorant caricature of the traditional primacy given to the first male child of a family, though not at all exclusive to Asia rather overtly expressed there. I was quite surprised to find out later on that this was a pretty straightforward calque of a genuine custom.

ithkuil 3y ago
Not that uncommon in some parts of Italy to meet old people named "Primo", "Secondo", ... A friend of mine had a grandmother called "Finimmola" (let's stop it), the youngest of 8. The seventh was "Ultimo" (last)
wodenokoto 3y ago
Isn’t that also a plot point in “your name”? > where a stereotyped Asian father addressed his boys not by name but by number That really shouldn’t make its way into the translation

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rolisz 3y ago

sigh why are Hungarians so special? It created confusion in my mind as to which one is the first mind (I'm half Hungarian)