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| orion Senior Member United States Joined 7021 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 33 of 140 29 December 2006 at 1:57am | IP Logged |
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There was a Chinese guy in the building where I used to work whose name was Longlong Wang.It used to cause some raised eyebrows amongst visitors who saw it on the building directory in the lobby!
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| cameroncrc Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6517 days ago 195 posts - 185 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Ukrainian | Message 34 of 140 29 March 2007 at 1:20pm | IP Logged |
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We did a play in 6th grade that was about Germany. We gave the people silly names like "Longshnoz" and "Olga Fettshweinefleish"
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| bela_lugosi Hexaglot Senior Member Finland Joined 6454 days ago 272 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English, Finnish*, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish Studies: Russian, Estonian, Sámi, Latin | Message 35 of 140 29 March 2007 at 2:34pm | IP Logged |
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In Italy there's some poor guy named Massimo Piacere (translates as Maximus Pleasure..) :D I wonder what women think of him... ;)
There are also: James Bondi Felice Mastronzo (felice ma stronzo = happy but an a**hole..) Felice Finocchio ('happy faggot') Adolf Reich Massimo della Pena ('Maximus Punishment', and the guy is a lawyer! :p) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 36 of 140 12 April 2007 at 9:55am | IP Logged |
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.. or what about the German politician who has to live with the name "Teufel" (Devil)?
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| echoes Triglot Newbie Puerto Rico Joined 6698 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Spanish, German, English* | Message 37 of 140 27 April 2007 at 8:12am | IP Logged |
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The news channel CNN en español has an Israel correspondent named José Levy. The name isn't anything weird or anything, but you take a very very common Spanish first name and a very very common Jewish surname and for some reason the combination cracks me up.
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| Vinchy Triglot Newbie Norway Joined 6371 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Studies: Spanish, Hindi | Message 38 of 140 24 June 2007 at 2:23pm | IP Logged |
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In Norway we have the male first name Odd which is quite common, and female names such as Gunn and Randi.
Some names look quite funny on paper, but are pronounced differently, f.ex. the male name Roar, pronounced Rou-ar. My fathers name is Per, which is pronounced just about the same way as the French word for father (pére). I found this amusing when I was living i France because I could say that my fathers name was 'father' ("mon pére s'appelle pére") 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| agimcomas Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 6459 days ago 69 posts - 77 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, Portuguese, German Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 39 of 140 24 June 2007 at 4:41pm | IP Logged |
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In Spain, where people have double sirnames formed by the father's sirname and the mother's, sometimes people are called RodrĂguez-RodrĂguez, or González-González. It is quite funny.
The italian sirname "Saputo" sounds very funny in Spanish. I also knew a real-state agency called "Peduto" (which is a sirname). My mother was born in a town called LanĂşs, which in french would be read the sames as "l'anus" (the anus). I had a maths teacher in primary school who would give funny names to the characters he invented while dictating a problem for us to resolve. He would say things like "Pedro Gado" (drogado= drugged/high) or ""Matias Queroso" (asqueroso=disgusting) has 3 apples and 2 oranges.... In the class was also a boy whose sirname is Tyrakis ("little cheese" in greek). Edited by agimcomas on 24 June 2007 at 4:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| HTale Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6378 days ago 164 posts - 167 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written)* Studies: French | Message 40 of 140 25 June 2007 at 10:06am | IP Logged |
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Our mathematics supervisor at university went by the name of "My Long Tham" (actual spelling, I kid you not). You can guess the jokes that followed...
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