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Dana - 2009-03-06 20:17:53
We do not begin to compete with Venezuela: http://poorbuthappy.com/yourthing/post/strange-stupid-names-for-kids-in-venezuela/
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Paula - 2009-03-06 20:21:48
Fascinating...and yet their government is trying to put a stop to it!
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2fs - 2009-03-06 20:43:31
With few exceptions (such as if they're going to catch crap for being the kid of someone famous & famously weird anyway, a/k/a The Zappa Exemption), I think giving kids joke names is pretty close to child abuse. Ha-ha, Mom and Dad...but who has to live with it?
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Mr Lojban - 2009-03-07 17:40:14
The British will do it if they're celebrities; see "Brooklyn Beckham". Denmark has baby naming laws, less strict than they used to be. I'd forgotten about Venezuela. Odd & oddly spelled names are not uncommon in Latin America. I knew a Cuban girl named Odaisy. And scan the baseball rosters & you'll see Joakim (instead of the standard Spanish Joaquín) and both Geovany and Yovani.
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MacGregor - 2009-03-07 22:48:44
I wish parents would go back to normal, traditional names like MacGregor.
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Paula - 2009-03-09 15:18:13
Mr L: interesting! That answers my question. I wonder how baby naming laws would go over here...
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Mr Lojban - 2009-03-12 20:30:00
Ooh, that should have been "Joaquin", with an accent on the 'i'. Let's try again.

Joaqu�n

There is a family in New Jersey who named their kids JoyceLynn Aryan Nation, Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie, and Adolf Hitler. The kids were taken away by children's services. Because of the names? I don't know.

If you haven't figured it out, I have an acute case of onomatomania.
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