Re: Re: two comments on names....

[Guest guest]

Trust me, I know you're not going to tell.

The interesting thing is that my name, " Kaiden, " is all the rage in the

local under-four set. I changed my name in 1999, and have been working

customer service ever since then, answering call after call with " Hello, my

name is Kaiden... how may I help you? "

Makes you think, doesn't it?

> And no, don't bother asking what my name used to be.

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[Guest guest]

This message from Kaiden Fox arched across the cosmos:

> " Hello, my

>name is Kaiden... how may I help you? "

I've been wondering for a while now -- how do you pronounce

it? Kay-den? Kye-den?

DeGraf ~*~ http://www.sonic.net/mustang/moggy

[Guest guest]

K (as in the letter) - Den (as in the room).

Stress on the first syllable.

People ask me the nationality of it all the time. I tend to lie constantly

about it. The true facts: " Kaiden " is a term for a person who has completed

a complete school of martial arts, and would be qualified to teach it. In

Sumerian, KA-ID-EN means Spirit-Flowing-Lord. I've found, " Sumerian " is my

favorite answer to the nationality question, because... well... " Oh, are you

Sumerian? " is such a funny question to be asked. When I was a history

major, I would perservate about Sumeria, and I would (warning, bad pun

ahead), babble-on (ack, there it was!) about the ancient Mesopotamian

cultures.

Re: Re: two comments on names....

> This message from Kaiden Fox arched across the cosmos:

> > " Hello, my

> >name is Kaiden... how may I help you? "

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> I've been wondering for a while now -- how do you pronounce

> it? Kay-den? Kye-den?

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> DeGraf ~*~ http://www.sonic.net/mustang/moggy

[Guest guest]

You know, this is very confusing to me. Does Portia favor the idea that

people should normalize, or does she favor the idea that everyone has the

right to be different?

Well, at least she didn't name him Shithead (pronounced " Sheh-THEED " - and,

yes, that is a REAL Arabian name).

Re: two comments on names....

> Clay wrote:

> >It was Camille who told us how to spell it, Jane who

> >told us how to pronounce it, and I'm saying it doesn't

> >make any difference how you spell or pronounce it, it

> >still sucks as a name for a boy in this country. (Not

> >bad for a girl, though). And I'm not sure that having

> >the name Duck was the only reason that boy killed

> >himself. Parents who would name a child that had to be

> >abusive in many other ways as well.

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> I don't think Dov and Duck are comparable. If

> the name Dov is given as part of the family's culture,

> it can be a source of strength. One of the professors

> where I work has a son named Amram. That is not a

> " normal " (Anglo-European) name, but it is part of the

> family's culture and the family is very actively

> living their cultural values. I suspect the meaning

> a family givea a name, and the support the family gives

> to that meaning on a daily basis, makes the difference.

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