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Why not just call them “Kickme”?

August 22, 2007 By: jessicazafra Category: Current Events, Language and twisted by jessica zafra 36 Comments →

According to this article in the Australian Herald Sun, more people are naming their kids after characters in science-fiction movies. Hence Jean-Luc (as in Picard), Neo, Trinity, and so on.

This is not news to those of us who live in a weird names capital of the world, with our senator Joker, actor Dingdong, and numerous old ladies named Baby Girl. We all went to school with someone named Jonathan Livingston Sy or Edgar Allan Pe. My friend Din used to volunteer as a student registrar at UP so he could encounter names like “Crassus, Jr” (named for a Roman emperor; still better than “Commodus”, which might as well be “Crapper”) and surnames like “Bagong-gahasa” (newly-raped). Zed goes to a fish restaurant run by the Misses Kaliskisan (Scales).

There’s a special logic to the naming of kids in Pinoy families. “Why are you named Jade? Isn’t that a girl’s name?”

“Because my mom’s name is Ruby.”

I would caution people against naming their children “Venus”, “Aphrodite”, “Apollo” or “Lovely”. That’s just tempting fate.

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Little House on the Prairie

July 31, 2007 By: jessicazafra Category: Language 6 Comments →

From the Department of Linguistics, Bahay Kubo in gayspeak.

Valer kuberch, kahit jutay
Ang julamantrax donchi ay anek-anek.
Nyongkamas at nutring, nyogarilyas at kipay
Nyitaw, nyotaw, jutani.
Kundol, jutola, jupot jolabastrax
At mega join-join pa, jobanox nyustasa.
Nyubuyax, nyomatis, nyowang at luyax
And around the keme ay fulnes ng linga.

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