This reminds me of an article about "silly" translations of car makes: initially, they wanted to name a certain new Rolls Royce design "Silver Mist"...until an astute employee pointed out that "Mist" means "Dung" in German...
Dunno if anybody is interested, but I wouldn't say that Vaughn sounds like 'stench' in Russian. Russian for 'stench' is вонь /vonj/, which does sound similar but has a palatilised final consonant. There is, though, a word sounding /von/, which is вон and means 'out' (but more like a direction; I guess it's an interjection? Not a frequently used word).
Batman? Like the city in Turkey? You might offend the Kurds by naming your child after the Turkish name for their city instead of their own name for their city.
That's a lot of unwanted names...
ReplyDeleteBut did you get a good name?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindu_Dara_Singh
ReplyDeletehttp://vlasisku.lojban.org/vindu
This reminds me of an article about "silly" translations of car makes: initially, they wanted to name a certain new Rolls Royce design "Silver Mist"...until an astute employee pointed out that "Mist" means "Dung" in German...
ReplyDeleteSafe idea, unless they are Melburnians... It wouldn't go down well with the Kullin people John Batman massacred here when he colonised Melbourne
ReplyDelete"kullin" translates as "dick(as penis, not name) has" in finnish:)
DeleteDoes it? Then I guess Kullin is also off the table as a baby name!
DeleteDunno if anybody is interested, but I wouldn't say that Vaughn sounds like 'stench' in Russian. Russian for 'stench' is вонь /vonj/, which does sound similar but has a palatilised final consonant. There is, though, a word sounding /von/, which is вон and means 'out' (but more like a direction; I guess it's an interjection? Not a frequently used word).
ReplyDeleteBatman? Like the city in Turkey? You might offend the Kurds by naming your child after the Turkish name for their city instead of their own name for their city.
ReplyDeleteNow he might choose Superman... Or Hulk...
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ReplyDeleteHow about John..
ReplyDeleteWhy not Kawairashi-sa?
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