Names was:Re: Reminder - Weekly Chat

[alice_loves_cats]

Alice:

I wasn't even sure Naama (or Anamar) was your real name(s), I seem to
be hopelessly out-of-date concerning names. I still think people are
called Katherine and Julia and, well, Alice. I sort of got myself to
believe that in America people are called whatever comes into their
parents heads, since we had a discussion on names here not so long
ago, and everyone said things like "I liked the name xyz, but I
already knew someone called that, so I put a w at the end and then
varied the spelling, so I now have a child named xyezw." I found that
amazing.

I think I might have written this here already, but I have a book on
"Fantastic Facts", and one of them is "In France up to the 1950s (or
something) parents had to choose a name for their child from a list
approved by the state." I could hardly stop laughing, because actually
in Hungary it still works that way. People tend to think "normal" is
what they grew up in, so I think the list-thing is normal. Apart from
anything else, it saves a lot of people from spending a lifetime
spelling out their name. I should know how tiresome that is, living
with a Scottish surname in Hungary, to top it all one that has a
capital letter in the middle of it (it's a "Mc" one). I have
absolutely and completely given up trying to get my name spelt
properly by anyone else except my boyfriends. Boyfriends should know
how to spell their girlfriend's name. But other people... it's a
fruitless and futile battle...

Alice (glad she has no second names to bother with)



--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:
>  
> > > Amanar replies:
> [...]
> > > I tried to sign "Naama" a long time ago, but most people confused 
> > me 
> > > with you (I didn't know there was one already on the list)
> > > 
> > > Cheers!
> > > 
> > > -- Amanar,
> > > who really likes her nickname, but has to admit she loves her own 
> > > name better (Naama is just too common *groan*)
> > 
> Naama:
> > I like it too... It's you then. I remembered seeing another Naama 
> > here - or rather at the main list, but thought she had unsubbed. So 
> > you metamorphed to Amanar (why the "r", by the way?). 
> > 
> > Naama isn't that common a name, actually. I find it somewhat strange 
> > that there are two of us here. Strange, but nice.
> > 
> 
> Just curious: is your name any relation to the name "Naomi"?  I never
> knew anyone called Naama before HPfGU, but I did know two Naomis when
> I was a child; one was Israeli but I'd see her whenever she visited
> the States in the summer during the '60s.
> 
> Annemehr
> who signed herself "Anne" very briefly early on, but quickly had to
> change that to avoid confusion <waves to other Annes>