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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 12 10 November 2010 at 11:23am | IP Logged |
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My Norwegian name - Solfrid - means "beautiful as the sun". Which is good for laughs, but otherwise not very practical. :-)
When I lived in Spain as a child, they would just call me Sol (Sun), but before I went there to study as a young adult, I legally obtained a second first name, Cristina, which everyone can pronounce. I then respond to any variant of that, Chris, Christy, Tina or Cristina, and that takes care of my problem in all nations I have visited. I have no idea what I would have done in China. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| yall Diglot Newbie Italy Joined 5962 days ago 22 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Latin, French | Message 10 of 12 11 November 2010 at 8:26am | IP Logged |
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A translation of someone's name really isn't their name. As for me, I generally keep my name, Justin, unless there is some situation in which I'm on the phone making dinner reservations or something and there is risk of not being understood. In the past, in both Spanish and Italian, I have given people the option of calling me by their language's equivalent (Justino, Giustino), but no one has ever elected to do that, maybe because those names aren't very common. Now, I agree that it is kind of silly. No, they don't pronounce it 100% correctly, but it's no biggie. Edited by yall on 11 November 2010 at 8:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Monte_Cristo Newbie United States Joined 5198 days ago 27 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 12 11 November 2010 at 8:15pm | IP Logged |
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Only 1 out of 100 people have ever pronounced my name correctly in my home country, so I don't really worry about it...in college I always knew when my name was up on the roll because the teacher would just stop and stare at the paper.
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| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6121 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 12 of 12 12 November 2010 at 3:30am | IP Logged |
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I have the most prolific name ever, that translates into various languages with a wide variety of short forms.
Guillaume Guillermo Guilherme William Wilhelm Willem Liam Bill(y) Will(y) Memo Gui etc... If given the chance, I'd change to any of these variants in a foreign language setting. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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