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Kaito

#1 ·

Greetings!
Last night or the one before it, I had this idea for a thread.
So what do you think about your real name? Do you like it or not? And why? Also what other name you would wish to have instead of your own if you dislike your current name?
About me, I love my name so much because of it's meaning, and also it's not so common where I live.
It's originally Arabic and I like to write it as Sharaf Aldeen to make English tts read it close to the correct way. But the spelling in French is quite different. By the way it is one name composed of 2 parts.
And now, tell me about you. I'd like to hear your opinions about your own names.
And lastly, I know there are people not wishing to talk about their real name or share it on the internet and I understand that. So if you're one of them ignore this post..
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ferre

#2 ·

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I like my name because it is quite uncommon outside of belgium, I know some other people from belgium named ferre, and one from the netherlands. It's pretty hard to pronounce for some english speakers, since the way you pronounce it is by rolling your r, and not everyone can do that.
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Kaito

#3 ·

it's an interesting name. I don't think I can pronounce it the right way.
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ArcticMoon

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Well, maybe most of you know that I'm from Hungary and in this country my name is pretty common. It's very popular among people in this country. Well, many of you know that I'm called Nicolette and I pronounced this name incorrectly on purpose now because many of you say Nicolette, but in Hungary we say Nicolette with the stress falling on the first syllable, like Nicolette. And well, I like my name. There are more horrible names out there in my country, but maybe you know about the fact that there are a lot of countries in which there's a list of names you can give to a child when they are born. And Hungary is one of those countries when you have to choose from a list. There's a very huge list of names you can give to a child when they are born. There's a huge list and you can't give anything you want, but only names from that list. So, we usually check what names are available because new names are accepted each year, as far as I know, each year. But if there are some Hungarians out there, correct me, please, if I'm not right. But as far as I know, there... We get accepted every year and there are very strange names which get accepted for some reason. But yeah, I like my name. I wouldn't say that it's the best name ever given to a child, but, you know, well, I'm fine with it. And I like the fact that it has a very good rhythm because my first name is Til. And we say the first, like my last name is Til and my first name is Nicolette. And I made this mistake because in Hungary it's reversed. So your last name, your family name is the first one, you say, and your given name, your like first name, which would be your first name in English, that's your last name. And anyway, a fun fact that in Hungarian you say Keresnev, which is like cross. Cross name, cross is referring to religion. And it's a fun fact of some kind. And that's why I made this mistake. Because yeah, we say it reversed. As far as I know, just like they do in Japan, and in some other countries. And if I say Til Nicolette, it has a very good rhythm. I like the rhythm. I like the rhythm of this name and how it sounds. It's very cool. Yeah, so with some fun facts about Hungarian naming and with some strange things. Yeah, this is me in a nutshell. I like my own name. Yeah.


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ArcticMoon

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And for Ferre, I'm not sure if I can pronounce your name, but I will try nevertheless. If I have to roll my R, it would sound like something like Ferre, Ferre or something, or Ferre, I don't know, but I tried. I heard it being pronounced in one of the topics, I don't know, maybe in one for Dutch learners, I'm not sure. And there they said something like Ferre, but if I have to roll my R, then it should be like R, if I have to roll it, then it's like R, so it should be like Ferre. Or maybe that one is the right version, which maybe Starchild said in the Dutch learning topic, like Ferre, I don't know, but I tried.


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MayowaArogundade

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about my name so my name sorry my what is very common in Nigeria actually but some at least one from but I'm not or was originally from my own is comic the all the way section of it is also common but in other names and certain TTS is certain TTS is will either say male or all you are me or because it sounds it is not that common it and it means much joy if your room like the West African region and my homie means must join the Lord and but yeah mine I just like to be called it shortened because it's easier and pregnant easier pronounce and I said and there isn't it's sounds like it sounds like it sounds like it sounds like it sounds like it sounds like it sounds like it sounds like it sounds like it sounds like it sounds like it sounds like it sounds like it sounds like mail is is because it's mail is is because it's mail is is because it's spelled m-a-y-o-w-a my name is actually spelled m-a-y-o-w-a my name is actually spelled m-a-y-o-w-a my name is actually pronounced like Iowa but with an M in pronounced like Iowa but with an M in pronounced like Iowa but with an M in front of it so yeah that's basically why front of it so yeah that's basically why front of it so yeah that's basically why although since I have a long name and although since I have a long name and although since I have a long name and it's probably gonna be hard so it's probably gonna be hard so it's probably gonna be hard so

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thedominator

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my name is uh dominic as most of you probably already know i i think my name is pretty cool and unique because i mean as far as i know i don't like some other people i know have this name including the second kid named dominic in my school um who is shorter than me um so there are only two people in my school named dominic me and another one and like i i guess mine originated from latin origin um but it's i think it's also a common name in poland too because like my parents are polish and yeah oh so i think my name is i like how it is like not long not short but like just right and i like how it's like a little bit unique

marchoffmann

#8 ·

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I just gotta say, you have a super deep voice for a 13 yearold, dang.
Well, people know my name, but what most don't know is that I have a second one. It's not half bad in terms of that it's not really german, but I just, don't like it. It totaly doesn't fit to me and I don't see any sense in it. Might reveal it if people really want to, not now though.
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Jonathan

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I like my 1st name, nice in german, nice in english... Same for my 2nd, which people know or they don't, no point in revealing it. My last name is way to german though and there is not really a good pronounciation for it in english, so meh, could be worse I guess.

Sir-Charlie

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Jaidon was a really common name here in Trinidad back in the 2000s to early 2010s. There are a lot of people here between, le's say 17-25 named Jaidon. Most spell it like Jadon or Jaden, but yeah. The way mine is spelt is kind of unique.
I like it. I feel warm when most people say it in particular certain people, but it feels really weird when most of my foreign friends say it, it's somehow worse in text. This is why I don't call myself Jaidon anywhere. Also fun fact, I say my name in several different ways depending on the context. It's 2AM so I won't show you now and I also just came from a party so my voice is hoarse.
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Kaito

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@4 Wow. So parents there get to choose from a list of names to give to their child? This is the first time I hear of such thing.
It could be good here because seriously recently I hear some names that I can't discribe how bad they are. They don't even sound like names, it feels as if they put some letters together and then oh okay we got a new name.
As for the first name last name thing, it confuses me sometimes in Algeria. Because we use 2 languages and each of them has a different order. In Arabic the firstname comes before the last name whereas in French, family name comes first. And people in some regions have family names which appear like first names or it's the oposit.
I personally like to put my name first but it's impossible in some cases.
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thespyde

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There were times I wished I'd been named something other than Charles. I very much despise my middle name, and I went through a phase where I disliked both names as both uncles I was named for were assholes. Now, though, I'm comfortable enough with my first name.
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Nikolatheserb

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I was named after my great-grandfather. My name, Nikola, is a variant of the Greek Nicholaos (or Nicholas in English), so I guess me and Arctic Moon can be considered namesakes. I love my name, but I sometimes wished I was given a more Slavic first name, like Milorad, Dragoslav, or something of the sort. I hate the modern trend of international, short, disgustingly short names, which used to be given only to dogs, and now are given to the people.
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silentsentinel

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My real name is Gage, as you would likely be able to see if you took a look at my visitor card. Personally, I don't like it all that much. It's struck me as ever-so-slightly unusual, but not so unusual as to be interesting. It's also screwed up frequently, which is annoying. George, Gavin, Gabe, Kage... Though the person who called me that last one also called my girlfriend Octavia (Which is very wrong), so he's just utterly terrible with names. I try to avoid using it if at all possible. There are very few who I actually like saying it.
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Jonathan

#15 ·

Oh yeah that's the only thing, especially boomer germans love to say Johannes or Jonas instead of Jonathan, meh, apparently they have like 1b RAM or something, no idea how you can screw these up.

rudolf

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LOL Agreed @8, it went through a lot of changes it seems.
Anyway, as for my first name, I personally have no issue with it and it seems to suit me well. Though still I don't share it online as much, or at least not in people's faces. If people really want to they can find it easily, but I don't prefer it being called with my real name online so I just don't make a big deal about it.
I don't think many users have my last name though, I used to have it in my visiting card a couple of years ago but removed it long since. I'm fine with using it in Germany since it sounds quite German, but in English it sounds absolutely horrible.
Honestly, if I could travel into the past, I probably would keep it to myself and close friends, both as a sign of appreciation and because staying anonymously nowadays has it's worth. Besides, it's always more interesting to have one's secrets...

GeorgeWu

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My name is George, and I like my name. It reminds me of Curious George and George Washington. And sometimes people, like my family and some friends, sometimes like to mess around my name in a good way sometimes. Like one person called me Curious George. And sometimes one person called me Georgie. And one person made a rhyme of Georgie, Porgy, putting them pie. And kind of made me laugh when some people bring up that rhyme. Yeah, I like it.

thedominator

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well mark thanks for the compliment I guess and yeah I get that a lot

Kaito

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hello everyone so I've been wanting to start this thread with an audio post but I didn't do it because of some reasons anyways first of all I just wanted to comment on something which is quite unrelated and when we talk about a voice change about for example Dominic yeah his voice is quite changed quite a lot and I remember hearing his voice like maybe yeah maybe less than a year ago here on Elton on some forums and before that I don't remember where we met and I don't remember was it on TT or in the game SPYW I seriously forgot but anyways his voice was was high pitched yeah a lot more high pitched than it is now and yeah it also happened before that somebody on TT I remember maybe two weeks three weeks before I heard his voice it sounds like a high pitch then high pitched then all of the sudden it significantly changed and became a lot deeper and deeper and my voice for example didn't didn't change until I got maybe 17 18 something when I was 13 and 14 it was a lot higher pitched more i mean it was a lot higher pitched than it is right now thankfully i wasn't using any kind of software which can show my audio online back then anyways sorry i just wanted to explain some things about my name since it's an arabic name and yeah my last name is very much it contains an arabic letter at first which is quite hard to pronounce for for non-arabic speakers so it could be hard to say except they could they could use a but the rest of this is the same i wanted to talk more about about my first name so my first name is in arabic we say sharifuddin and the first part is sharif and the second is addin so most people here call me just sharif in my family or outside outside some people call me sharifuddin by the full like the composition of my name and in english it's the my tts when i write it with sh sh sorry uh it says it like olive and i personally don't like this kind of pronunciation much even though some people use it even here not with the English R of course but with the Arabic R and then if you spell it with CH as it's like it is spelled in French it's in English it says it like Cherif which is yeah not right it's completely not right and in French it says it like Cherif because CH is the same has almost the same pronunciation CH in French is like SH in English so is that sound and then when we talk about how people call me in some cases some people call me like Ashraf which is close to my name but it is not the same and some people call me Cherif but it's also close but many a lot of people here call me by different names I don't know why maybe because my name they find it hard to say or yeah some people just do it randomly I used to hate this thing a lot before but now I'm just not so I don't care that much so yeah people can call me whatever they want to especially the name Cherif I used to hate it because it's a name for like very old people and I feel like an uncle or a grandpa when people call me by it but now I just laugh and pass so yeah I think that's all I wanted to say and yeah okay the last thing I just remembered as the Sir Charlie's post in my TTS reads your name when you spell it like the the correct way you spell it it reads it like Jaden and sometimes it reads it like when you change the spelling or when people change its spelling it reads it like Jadon or Jaden or something like that these are the pronunciation which pronunciations which I have in my head right now I think that's all as for the Dutch name I really don't want to try just so that I don't mess it up and become like yeah and so yeah I really don't like to try names which I'm not sure how to pronounce because if I pronounce it wrong it might make the that person offended or yeah that's all I think it was quite of a long post which is not usually what I do but yeah the all of these I wanted to talk about before and now I got the time to to make an audio post and I did it so take care all and stay safe and thank you for listening

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Kaito

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I appologize for the quality of my microphone I think it was quite bad.
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