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People with real l337 speak names?
An anonymous reader writes "I'm considering naming my first-born child either Br4d or J4n37, depending on gender. My wife isn't too keen on the idea but there's plenty of time left to persuade her. Anyway, it had me wondering whether there are any people out there with real l337 speak given names (or even just a digit in their name). Do you know of any? Other than people saying your dad is a l4m3r, What are the possible pitfalls of having a digit in your name? Is it legal to have a digit in a name? Am I guaranteeing my child becomes a misfit? Am I the misfit?" Ask Jennifer 8. Lee.
Yeah, I'm going to name my first born son fr1st p50t!!11
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Imagine having a commonly used pr0n word in your name.
John.
One problem would be taking standardized tests such as the SATs. There are no numbers in the section where you bubble in your name. Your child could lose the 400 points given for putting your name on the test...
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I had my name legally changed to Ry4an 10 years ago. It's worked out fine though most formal records just exclude it.
I'm considering naming my first-born child either Br4d or J4n37, depending on gender. My wife isn't too keen on the idea but there's plenty of time left to persuade her... considering you haven't even met her yet. Now move out of your parent's basement and stop posting April Fool's jokes.
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all us boys got unusual names. Makes you tough.
Sue.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
But,
On the off chance it is not then the best thing to do is to change your own name and see how it goes.
Reserve the stupid name for your second child if you find it so great.
My parents named me sc0. They thought they were so cool with their UnixWare server. I'm in therapy now.
...stupid isn't illegal yet.
LilMikey.com... I'll stop doing it when you sto
but you are the weakest link. Goodbye!
OK, April Foole or not, your child deserves a real name, not a gag name or a spoof or your attempt to make a point or to be cute. You've no clue what will become of your child later in life, what path they will take, who they will work and live with. A name is one of few things you have control over in their life, and a bad/goofy name can really impact a child's psyche and who they become. My own father never outgrew the name Jan (old world version of John) and forever held it against his parents. If you need further reference, look at the flack that the musician Prince put up with when he changed his name to an unprononucable symbol. Do you really want people laughing at your kid behind his/her back the rest of their life?
Name them Robert, Sarah, Bruce, Steve, Karen, Jessica, whatever. Just don't get cute or play games with your kids name. It's too important for you to mess with.
> Br4d
> J4n37
Dr. Scott!
Rocky!
Wait a minute. Didn't I say that on the other side of the record? I'd better check
My first CS TA in college's first name was 'H' he said that it had caused him a lot of problems. In fact I just searched for him on Google and http://www.cs.pitt.edu/%7Ehcl/me/name.html this page explains it.
Anyone retarded enough to name their kid in l3375p34k lacks the genes that would make higher learning a possibility anyhow.
Trolling is a art,
Back in 1999 there was a guy at Apple who's name (as posted outside his cube) was Bo3b. I believe the '3' was silent.
...who went to high school with these two people, brother and sister. The guy's name was Chip, the girl's name was Cookie.
The dog's name was Chocolate.
I shit thee not.
"People" using "unnecessary" quotes should be "shot".
It's later, not earlier, but in Asimov's Prelude to Foundation the Mycogenian names contained numbers (i.e. Sunmaster Fourteen).
In real life it was quite common in ancient Rome to give children numeric names (Quintus, Sextus, etc.).
Translation: I hate my child, and wish to see them get beaten regularly in school.
You don't have another child named Squee, do you?
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This is the ultimate in inconsiderate selfishness. The name you give a child is the name that child is going to be stuck with, at least until they're old enough to change it to something sensible. Children are not 'possessions' or baubles that hang around as a display of your status or in this case you 'geekiness'. Consequently the name you give a child is something very serious and deserving of every bit of consideration you can give it and more. With more idiots like this naming their children in the same way they would name a pet or even a car, I would not be surprised to see more lawsuits in the future by offspring pissed off at their parents for the lifetime of humiliation heaped upon them by these inconsiderate jerkwads who don't deserve the title of 'parent'. You don't think it'll happen? There's already cases of young men suing their parents over being circumcised - a very common practice until recently. A child's name is NOT a joke. Grow the hell up!
To put it into perspective. "Prince Michael" might not be old enough to care right now, but once he's a young adult, do you think he's really going to appreciate the amount of consideration is self-obsessed ass-wipe of a father gave his name?
(because they don't know what the word gender means)
You mean definition (3a) here?
IMHO, the best part of
Anyway, I've been trying to guess the "theme" for this year's topic and I think perhaps tomorrow that it will be revealed that all these "unfunny" stories are all actually real news/submissions that the mods have been queuing up for a while just for today. But I dunno. I'll just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Thanks again for you contribution. Cheers!
That's true for other languages, but you might have consulted a dictionary before attempting (incorrectly and pedantically) to correct the poster regarding English usage. As seen from definitions 2-3, gender is an acceptable term in English to refer to a male/female distinction for humans.
Other languages can do what they like, but simply because English is different from other languages doesn't make it wrong. Many languages use one word for two usages that are split in other languages See below. Sex and gender in this usage are accepted synonyms.
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gender ( P ) Pronunciation Key (jndr) n.
1. Grammar.
2. Sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture.
3. a) The condition of being female or male; sex.
b) Females or males considered as a group: expressions used by one gender.
"Hi! I'm 212.90.0.89! Want to come to 127.0.0.1 and h4 | R-0uND?" -or- "Honey, look at that! our kids are so alike! They have the same class C ip address! How sweet!
I'm getting married soon and I looked up the laws about changing your name in a couple different states, Washington, Oregon, and Ohio, and every single one of the says that it's alright to have a number spelled out, but having a numeral isn't allowed. Granted, things may be different outside of the US.
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She uses the number "8" in her byline, a clever device she came up with to differentiate herself from the hordes of other Asian girls named "Jennifer Lee". In fact, I believe there was actually another Jennifer Lee at her high school (Stuyvesant, in NYC, if I remember correctly) that wrote for the paper and she wanted to differentiate herself.
Lots of people have made up stories about the origins of "that wacky NY Times writer's middle initial", that her parents gave her the middle intial "8" because it's a lucky number in China or some such thing. These stories were either made up by silly people or things she once told at a party after a few beers just to see if people would actually believe them, and they have propagated over the Internet (because when you are a Circuits writer, you get geek-fans). The 8 is a creation of her own. Why 8 rather than 9 or 10? I believe because she thought it sounded cool, though the number may have some other personal significance.
So these days she may actually tell people her name is Jennifer 8. Lee because that's her byline and it's become associated with her. But it certainly wasn't her given name by her parents, and to the best of my knowledge she has never gone and changed her legal name or anything of that sort.
Oh, and it doesn't matter because the US doesn't allow numbers in names
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Who knows, but I can't get a Hotmail account using my real name, but I did manage to register one in the name Ivana Watch-Teens-Give-Head (story).
John.
Apple's own Bo3b Johnson. He's been a member of Apple Developer Support since time immemorial, and has managed to get Bo3b on credit cards and (it's rumored) drivers licences since way before many slashdotters were born.
The 3 is silent by the way. And apparently Bo3b is short for Ro3bert.
Gender is the personal expression of sexual identity. Definition 2 hits this directly, though I could see why an etymologyst would list the grammatical definition of gender first. The 3rd definition is more common usage, but it is split in half with 3b supporting the classification schema definition. Note, none of these definitions refer specifically to biology, just identity perception. And as the baby is too young to have a well formed sexual identity perception, it can be said to be biologically male or female, but it cannot be said to be psychologically masculine or feminine.
Sex is verifiable. Gender is a perception.
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Back in college my housing director's name was, no lie, "Sus3an". I figured at first that the "3" was just her trying to make a German "s" on a US keyboard but, no, it was in fact a 3.
Don't do it, dude. Your kids will have enough reasons to hate you without giving them stupid names.
All's true that is mistrusted
april fool jokes aside...
if you want to give your child an unusual name, at least give him or her something s/he can abbreviate to something less unusual if s/he turns out to be more conservative than you, otherwise, s/he could have some problems, among other things, with finding a job, people assuming the name has typo or is a joke name (but I have a vewy good fwiend in Wome named Biggus Dickus!).
even some foreigners are starting to modify their names due to embarrassing phonetic correlation in English... like this Vietnamese person I know: real name "Phuoc". (side note: a friend of mine who is a native French speaker took her child to the Toronto zoo once, and she was teaching her to say the animal names in French. The people around her were evidently scandalized to see this mother teach her daughter to point at a seal and to say: "un phoque!")
That being said, I also know a guy named Richard Hertz, who everyone calls Dick. No joke.
I wouldnt be surprised if one day someone starts an agency to research names that have absolutely no bad connotations in any language.
In his novel "The Demolished Man", some of the characters (mostly the telepaths) had names that would now be considered internet slang names...Samuel @kins and someone else who last name was Wyg&, just to name a couple. But he was always ahead of his time. Maybe it was it just me, but I saw some of his influence in Stephenson's "Snow Crash". Hiro Protagonist has got to be the best name for a main character ever...!
it's true. I have an uncommon enough name that when I do a google on my name in quotes, over half the results are actually about me. This has good and bad sides. For one thing, anyone who knows my name can find out a fair bit about me pretty fast. Fortunately nothing bad about me is really on the net, but who knows if it will stay that way.
On the other hand, I have a friend named John Smith who was arrested on pretty serious drug charges but managed to get off without a jail sentence. There are half a dozen articles on the internet that mention his name in this regard, but type John Smith into google and they're nowhere in the first thousand results.
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Looks like Sally Atkins had this idea as well...
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Oh boy.
Another stupid April Fool's news item.
April 2nd cannot come soon enough.
Can't we just add a day to February and get rid of April 1?
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