Whats your baby name?

Hmm, makes me wonder what my name would have been if I had been born to Irish parents or in Ireland. Of course I realise that's a super foolish question and I could never guess that. Also, it would be silly for me to adopt an Irish name at the age of going-on-50, even once I get citizenship, unless I wanted to make a political statement. Or at least that's what my husband says. What do you think?

pickarooney wrote: »

Translate your name into Irish (this is a thing, translating nanes, they do it in primary school, even with the foreigners, it's quite bizarre) and use it on Facebook and be cool and trendy and hip but also edgy and mysterious.

I found it bizarre that they managed to "translate" my foreign first and surname into Irish for secondary school.
However I did use it on Facebook as a "fake" name to stop a stalker following me about online so its not all bad

pickarooney wrote: »

Translate your name into Irish (this is a thing, translating nanes, they do it in primary school, even with the foreigners, it's quite bizarre) and use it on Facebook and be cool and trendy and hip but also edgy and mysterious.

The name closest to the name I usually use (which is itself a holdover from a college language class!) is "Saoirse", but, no disrespect to anyone who legitimately has that name as a commemoration of their Irish roots, I think it is in poor taste for an American (I'm sick of the antics of the Tea Party) and a little over-trendy.

The nearest Irish equivalent to my "Jewish" name is variantly given as Saraid or Sorcha or Sadhbh, but if you asked me what I liked myself, I suppose it would be Siomha.

Of course if there was an Irish word for "you are totally overthinking this to f*ck", that would be an even better and more descriptive name for me.

If it's a boy, L'tonquine

If it's a girl, L'queeffa

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

has anybody figured out what the OP is actually asking?

I'm treating it like modern art. The meaning exists in the space between the work and the observer.

An babog

de babby

I already knew that my grandmother was "bubbe" (pronounced "boo-bee") in Yiddish, and "bubelah" ("boo-beh-lah") if we were being especially affectionate (the first word means "grandmother" and the second can be used toward anyone to mean "sweetie"). So when she referred to little kids as something that sounded like "kuhkelah", I thought it was an affectionate name that added the diminutive "-lah" to the word "cookie". I didn't find out until I was in my 40s that it actually means "little sh!t", from Yiddish "kock". Chalk another one up to you, bubbe.