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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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 Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:20 pm
Dave My mother's maiden name is Impastato, which is a great little Italian name. I could have been Dave Impastato! How cool is that? I'm kinda mad at my dad for marrying her and messing it up. xp Oh man! How awesome! You're Italian? blaugh I hope I can marry a Hispanic guy so I can get myself a sexy name. razz Weird, yes. I know... rofl
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:08 am
Yup. My mom's full-blooded Italian. biggrin
Her grandmother came to America (New York, where my mom is from, actually) from Sicily, so I'm half-Italian.
My dad's side is basically everything else. stressed
It's mostly Norwegian and English, though, which is cool.
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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:56 am
That's really sweet! biggrin
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:22 pm
Nice! Have they taught you some Italian? That surname is funny and symbolic the same way, it means "mixed" surprised
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:49 pm
Oh, cool, I didn't know what it meant! biggrin
Unfortunately, my grandmother on my mom's side passed on before I was born, so I don't know any Italian besides the small amount I've taught myself. neutral
But I do recall my mom telling me one time about how she remembers her grandma used to encourage her to eat more when she was a kid, and she would say "mangia, mangia"! xd
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:43 am
Dave Oh, cool, I didn't know what it meant! biggrin Unfortunately, my grandmother on my mom's side passed on before I was born, so I don't know any Italian besides the small amount I've taught myself. neutral But I do recall my mom telling me one time about how she remembers her grandma used to encourage her to eat more when she was a kid, and she would say "mangia, mangia"! xd
Ah! rofl that's typical of that generation and of the following; my grannys always said that when I was a kid; that's because during the 2nd world war they were teens and there wasn't almost anything to eat...same thing for the 1st world war...
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:29 am
Ahh, yeah, that makes sense.
I definitely intend to learn Italian someday, to get in touch with my cultural heritage and whatnot.
Maybe when I have more time on my hands to devote to it. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:42 pm
My Spanish name would probably be Catalina (my name is Katherine).
If I put my name in Esperanto, I'd probably make it Katida. It's similar to Katie, and it means kittenish. biggrin
One of my favorite names is Lucia. I'm not sure why. It's just another version of Lucy, but I think it's really nice.
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:54 pm
cooch If I put my name in Esperanto, I'd probably make it Katida. It's similar to Katie, and it means kittenish. biggrin Neat! My Esperanto name is Dejv. Pronounced exactly the same. cool
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:37 pm
In French, I've gone by Suzanne, my middle name, for simplicity. That and I was having an identity crisis when I started, and didn't want a new name.
For German, we got to pick names, and I picked Marlene, but my teacher usually forgets that and just uses the German pronunciations for our birth names, which is fine with me.
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:33 pm
All the names I've had in language classes:
German - Liesl
French - Lise
Spanish - Lilia
Latin - ermmm I don't remember confused
Japanese - ロルル
Russian - Lara
Arabic - we didn't pick names
Finnish - Aada
I never took a Chinese class, but in undergrad I had a lot of Chinese friends and they gave me a Chinese name. I'm going to attempt typing in Chinese for the first time... 莉 I can't seem to find the other character. sad
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:23 pm
adabyron I never took a Chinese class, but in undergrad I had a lot of Chinese friends and they gave me a Chinese name. I'm going to attempt typing in Chinese for the first time... 莉 I can't seem to find the other character. sad That character is pronounced "li4," and means "jasmine". Do you remember the pronunciation of the other character? I might be able to guess what it is.
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:35 am
spanishnerd99 Da_Nuke Sluvotsky And not to throw the topic off too much but, what's the WEIRDEST name you've ever heard? Surname, firstname, whatever. For me it's Snedlditetikasi (Czech, "He ate the squash to the child"). My actual name is Acoyani Garrido Sandoval. To think I thought it was the weirdest name in all the world... confused That's your name?! razz It' not weird, it's hott! blaugh I fully agree-your name is seriously hot!
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:37 am
My name seems to be in a few languages. In Australian Aboriginal, my name means 'comes from the beautiful place.' In African it means 'the changing of the seasons,' and I discovered that my name is a shortened form of the Hawaiian name which means 'Moon Goddess.'
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:43 am
Kokoroki my first name is Joshua I know it's hebrew but I don't know what it means Joshua - Yehoshua (יהושוע) - means "god is salvation".
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