What would be the absolute worst name you could give your child?

[LoveMyPeppermill]

And yes, their names look like they get paid by the consonant.

And yet their words are short, as any look at a Thai menu will show.

(Thai is a tonal language, isn't it?)

 

[NotHardUp1]

I think Thai is inflected, but not like Chinese with five inflections.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Chinese with five inflections.

Different dialects -- which are really different languages, as you probably know -- have different numbers of tones.

Putonghua/Mandarin has four. I'm told that Cantonese has either six or eight, and people argue about it. (But then the Cantonese argue about everything.)

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Oh, and because I'm a pedant, in the context of languages, inflected doesn't mean that a language has tones. It means it has grammatical endings for words (conjugation for verbs, declension for nouns and adjectives). Chinese isn't inflected (in this sense) at all, Indonesian isn't inflected, English is only slightly inflected, German is slightly more inflected, classical Latin and the Slavic languages are highly inflected.

 

[rareboy]

Elon Musk.

 

[smokeshadow]

Eobard Thawne

 

[ChristianGianni]

Johnson Junior

John Thomas

Fanny Packer

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Could there actually be a kid somewhere named, Propecia?

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Could there actually be a kid somewhere named, Propecia?

With a sister named Antipecia, and they hate each other?

 

[ShadowCat]

LeShaun
LeStephanie
Patrice
Peaches
Tawonda
Diamondonna
Marqueesha
Digvijay
Princess
King
(These are people I have encountered in various customer services)^
Dweezil
Apple

 

[Vannie]

Ham

 

[rareboy]

Also Adolph if your last name is Hitler or Hilter.

or Rasputin.

 

[MoaningMike]

In high school I had a swimming coach named Dick Ryder. He even had a name tag that said “Dick Ryder” that he had no problem wearing. I asked him one day if anyone ever called him “Richard”, and he said very seriously “No, never”.
Frank Zappa named one of his sons Dweezil. I worked with a woman from Egypt
named Isis. Granted, she was born in 1964 so it’s not like her parents had any idea what that name would come to mean, but she did say took lots of shit for it.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

I worked with a woman from Egypt named Isis. Granted, she was born in 1964 so it’s not like her parents had any idea what that name would come to mean, but she did say took lots of shit for it.

I've always liked that the common name for that group of radical terrorists who profess to be honoring Islam is actually the name of a pagan goddess.

 

[rareboy]

Mike if your last name is Hunt.

 

[ShadowCat]

I went to school with a kid names Dick Rapier that was a fun 4 years!

 

[USEDCAR]

I been working in urgent care and hospital er's in registration and some of the names that come in though the door is just downright sad.

 

[PalacePaul]

Johnson Junior

John Thomas

Fanny Packer

You mean like the porn actor?