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what about giving oscar a middle name?
Topic Started: Jun 6 2008, 08:15 PM (3,392 Views)
Bionika
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OJFan
Jul 25 2010, 07:55 PM
A Christmas tree? How is that translating? Does it mean something else in French?

Hello OJFan

Norman (perhaps with 2 "n" at end) is a quite new variety of fir whitch is sold as Christmas tree because it loses less and less quickly its prickes than spruce.

Parents could give midname "Norman" just because they like the meaning of the word : "man from the North". Thinking to this meaning , I finally don't find it so nerdy.

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I do like Norman as a middle name for Richard, I think it is class ! and he could be a norman if he is not a saxon ! 432q18 A Norman tree is a brand of tree for Christmas, a tree that does not lose his little pins, I don't know the words for "aiguilles" Bionika and I am in a cybercafé because my PC is out of order.

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Bionika
Jul 26 2010, 01:43 AM
Parents could give midname "Norman" just because they like the meaning of the word : "man from the North". Thinking to this meaning , I finally don't find it so nerdy.

Bionika

Meaning is one thing - I like the meaning too - but that doesn't change the fact that in English the name is less than fashionable. (I won't use the word 'nerdy' because I might get myself in trouble!)

Apparently the name Norman was used in England before the Norman conquest, and could either have meant a person from the north or even a Norwegian.

What's a really nerdy name in French? I bet you anything it wouldn't sound nerdy to my Anglo ears at all!
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Elzorro
Jul 26 2010, 03:40 AM
I don't know the words for "aiguilles"

I found in dictionnary the word "PRICKLES" for "aiguilles" but I wrote my last message very quickly before going on vacations and I let the "L" in the keyboard!!! :D

I'm glad to have read that you have a new computer now.

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messyhead
Jul 26 2010, 07:30 AM
[that doesn't change the fact that in English the name is less than fashionable. (I won't use the word 'nerdy' because I might get myself in trouble!)



Hello Messyhead

Yes , I prefer the terms "less than fashionable" to "nerdy". Norman was probably in fashion in years 20's....but not in 2010!

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messyhead
Jul 26 2010, 07:30 AM
What's a really nerdy name in French? I bet you anything it wouldn't sound nerdy to my Anglo ears at all!

I'm not sure to understand exactly what you mean...I'll try to answer. I think it's some exemples of French old fashion names given to young people.

15 years ago I knew a young woman of 20 years called ADELAÏDE. She disliked it a lot and prefers to be called by the short name "HEIDI". Her brother of 15 years old was called RODOLPHE.
And a colleague of mine has called her little daughter (she is now 3 years old ) : SIDONIE.

My mother second name (like middle name) is ALFONSINE. Even if it was fashionable in 1929, she dislike it a lot. It just comes from the name of her grandfather which was "ALFONSE".

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Well there you go - Adelaide sounds like a very nice name to me, and so does Sidonie, but I speak English, so what do I know about how French names sound to French ears? Alphonsine and Rudolph DO sound old-fashioned to me, partly because they sound like old-fashioned names in English. Sometimes though you can't tell how a name sounds in a different language and culture. Norman is an old fashioned name in English.
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I always imagined his name was James Oscar Goldman but that he'd dropped the James.

I also think Oscar's middle name could be Bartholomew. He used "Oscar Bartholomew" as an alias in "Winning is Everything". I almost used this as Oscar's name during his and Jaime's wedding vows in my FF.
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Bionika
Aug 16 2010, 03:48 PM
Elzorro
Jul 26 2010, 03:40 AM
I don't know the words for "aiguilles"

I found in dictionnary the word "PRICKLES" for "aiguilles" but I wrote my last message very quickly before going on vacations and I let the "L" in the keyboard!!! :D

I'm glad to have read that you have a new computer now.

Bionika

Thank you Bionika, I have a new powerful PC with Windows 7 now, I get used to it, it is very good for viewing DVDs, and I have a new printer that makes scanner and printer too and the quality of the pictures are great, I am happy with my bargain !
How were your holidays ?

Elise :D

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Aug 17 2010, 01:11 AM
I always imagined his name was James Oscar Goldman but that he'd dropped the James.

I also think Oscar's middle name could be Bartholomew. He used "Oscar Bartholomew" as an alias in "Winning is Everything". I almost used this as Oscar's name during his and Jaime's wedding vows in my FF.

Now Bartholomew - THERE's a terrible middle name! I thought he picked Bartholomew in "Winning" because it sounds so distinctly un-Jewish. I suppose he could have it as a middle name, but it would suggest his parents really didn't want him to have an easy life. :lol:
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Jul 26 2010, 07:30 AM
Bionika
Jul 26 2010, 01:43 AM
Parents could give midname "Norman" just because they like the meaning of the word : "man from the North". Thinking to this meaning , I finally don't find it so nerdy.

Bionika

Meaning is one thing - I like the meaning too - but that doesn't change the fact that in English the name is less than fashionable. (I won't use the word 'nerdy' because I might get myself in trouble!)

Apparently the name Norman was used in England before the Norman conquest, and could either have meant a person from the north or even a Norwegian.

What's a really nerdy name in French? I bet you anything it wouldn't sound nerdy to my Anglo ears at all!

I think a nerdy name in french is Barnabé, besides I think no more men use this name ! I think it is Barnaby in english ! :D

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Yup - nerdy in both languages! :lol:

(I kind of like it though...sometimes those really old fashioned names get a new life after about 75 years. My grandmother Josephine disliked her name because it was too old fashioned, and now there are a lot of small children named Josephine. I think it's really pretty.
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Joséphine is the first name of Napoléon's wife, I think it is a pretty first name :)

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I think Josephine is a pretty name too. Names seem to come and go too. Now, there are so many young children getting names like Genevieve, yet a decade ago they weren't. It's all what becomes fashionable - often through Hollywood it seems.
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Elzorro
Aug 17 2010, 02:07 AM
How were your holidays ?


Very good thanks. It has been restfull.
I had only four rainy days even I I wasn't in South of France but in Normandy, so I could go swimming nearly every day.

Bionika

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