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Children is bugs (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (11 children)

I mean depending on their ethnic background naming the kid Moana would have been an issue for reasons besides being teased for being named after a disney princess.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If you can only name kids after your own ethnic background there's a lot of Richards/ Riciardos/Jeans/Jans/Johns/Stephen/Joris/Mubaraks/Etiennes out there that are mislabelings.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

All of those examples are linguistic drift though.

Naming a white girl moana isn't the same as some guy named Peter and his russian buddy Pyotr realizing that their names derive from the same origin in Greek (or Aramaic depending on how much you wanna argue Kefa should count as the origin since Petros was a direct translation of it as a name)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All comes from PIE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Happy ~~PIE~~ cake day!

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