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Well, if you live in a european non english speaking country and you hear people giving their children names like: Tarzan, Sandokan, Dell Boy, Superman and Rona
by markokocic 14y ago
Well, if you live in a european non english speaking country and you hear people giving their children names like: Tarzan, Sandokan, Dell Boy, Superman and Ronaldo it's easy to wish that giving names is somehow regulated.
As someone said, children are cruel, and will mock the hell out of Ronaldo, and even a lot of adults will lough behind the back at someone with the name Tarzan.
On the other hand, there are so much beautiful names that one shouldn't be forbidden to choose from because they are not on the list.
- rdouble 14y agoWhat's wrong with Ronaldo?
- markokocic 14y agoNothing wrong if you leave in Brazil, Spain, Portugal or some of the countries where it is common / normal name, or if your origin is from some of those places. But imagine that someone in Brazil give his child a name like: Vukašin, Milutin, Slobodan, Dejan, Jirži, Mbutu. I bet verry few people would be able to evn pronounce it.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoThat's the selling point of romance languages: very easy pronounciable by anyone. Anyone can pronounce Ronaldo.
- mahmud 14y agoJapanese would have a hard time with the "R", Arabs would have a hard time with the "o". Not "everyone" can pronounce Ronaldo.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoI argue that Ronaldo -> Ronardo is still much closer/more intelligible than, say, Vukašin -> Vukasin [especially if you pronounce it with american u and a and get [vakeisin].
- mahmud 14y agoOnly because of the two soccer players named Ronaldo whose name has been heard by every football fan on earth. There is nothing intrinsically "easy" about the name itself.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoMarco, Paolo or Carlo are even easier.
- rwhitman 14y agoRonald is not that easy to pronounce in Japanese or Korean...
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- guard-of-terra 14y agoKoreans should not have any problems: 런알도? "Ronald" is harder which is my point exactly.
- rdouble 14y agoI see your point. Many names are culturally/ethnically loaded. It would seem odd if an Chinese-American guy was named José or a Mexican-American guy was named Cheng.
- youngerdryas 14y ago>it's easy to wish that giving names is somehow regulated. Only in Europe could this seem reasonable. How much money is spent on such nonsense?
- gmac 14y agoApproximately none, I imagine. If you register births — and I imagine most states do — then it doesn't take a lot to impose a whitelist of names you'll allow. What people call their kids in the privacy of their homes isn't regulated, only what's on their birth certificate, after all. (Not sure where I stand on this. I'm in the UK, where names are not regulated and one man famously changed his to 'Yorkshire Bank Are Fascist Bastards' following a dispute[1]). [1] http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/yorkshire-bank-loses-its-good-name/2022458.article http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/yorkshire-bank-loses-its-good...
- youngerdryas 14y agoFrom the article: >There is a list of 1,853 female names, and 1,712 male ones, and parents must pick from these lists or seek permission from a special committee. Maybe it is a volunteer committee but they almost certainly could find something better to do with their time.