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16 Dec 2006 Sat 08:31 pm |
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Well Qdemir are you going to answer my question or is your silence an admittance that you were wrong? 
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16 Dec 2006 Sat 08:32 pm |
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Quoting qdemir: Quote: Especially when names mean in the different languages something. |
What if it is in your language? |
Most of the time it is! Remember, I teach Dutch so the books are in Dutch. What do you think my Turkish students did when they read names like 'Ben, Karin and Anne'? Exactly, they laughed!
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16 Dec 2006 Sat 08:40 pm |
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Quoting Trudy: Quoting qdemir: Quote: Especially when names mean in the different languages something. |
What if it is in your language? |
Most of the time it is! Remember, I teach Dutch so the books are in Dutch. What do you think my Turkish students did when they read names like 'Ben, Karin and Anne'? Exactly, they laughed! |
I think you finally settled it Trudy dear  I wonder how much it takes to make him admit he was wrong 
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16 Dec 2006 Sat 08:58 pm |
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Hepsi boş ya. O kadar gereksiz, bu konuşması!!
I got stuck at the 'making fun' part.. because I saw nobody making fun.
Now I will tell you something.. my father is a teacher too. He had a pupile whose last name was 'Vervelend' (Annoying). Ofcourse he wass teased with it, but that was no problem. One has to be mature enough to go along with such jokes as long as they are not made in a mean way. Anyway, I wanna come to this point. One evening my dad met his father, whose first name appeared to be Constant (Constantly). So when he introduced himself to my dad, he (had to) say this: Hello, I am Constantly Annoying.
Now if you ask me you can definetly joke about that and laughw hen you hear it. Believe me, that man does the same! I think one must have very long toes if you would make a problem of that..
Another one i know.. the last name of the mother of my sisters best friend is Chicken. She married a man whose last name was Rooster. Imagine her businesscard?
Ellen Rooster - Chicken.
Well sorry but if you dont laugh at such.. then your laughing muscles are made of steal! And laughing at it definitely doesnt make me disrespect her because it is a lovely woman.
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16 Dec 2006 Sat 08:58 pm |
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Quote: Most of the time it is! Remember, I teach Dutch so the books are in Dutch. What do you think my Turkish students did when they read names like 'Ben, Karin and Anne'? Exactly, they laughed! |
Trudy, you know very well what I mean exactly. However you don't want to reply me. What I am talking about is making fun of a person's name, say, making fun of a Dutch name. Mispronuncition doesn't count as you have mentioned above. I can undertand that. I think you teach your student that making fun of people (their names or ears,no difference between the two, people dont have any chance to choose)isnt good
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16 Dec 2006 Sat 08:58 pm |
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Quoting kai: Quoting Trudy: Quoting qdemir: Quote: Especially when names mean in the different languages something. |
What if it is in your language? |
Most of the time it is! Remember, I teach Dutch so the books are in Dutch. What do you think my Turkish students did when they read names like 'Ben, Karin and Anne'? Exactly, they laughed! |
I think you finally settled it Trudy dear I wonder how much it takes to make him admit he was wrong |
Long I'm afraid. No response at all....
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16 Dec 2006 Sat 09:01 pm |
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Quote: Long I'm afraid. No response at all.... |
Trudy, I am talking with you. If I would like to talk to someone else I will do. You don't need to quato someone else's words to reply me, do you?
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16 Dec 2006 Sat 09:06 pm |
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Quoting qdemir: Quote: Long I'm afraid. No response at all.... |
Trudy, I am talking with you. If I would like to talk to someone else I will do. You don't need to quato someone else's words to reply me, do you? |
I was answering Kai's question how long it would take before you answered!
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16 Dec 2006 Sat 09:10 pm |
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Yes guys,one should be mature,and as you said Deli,he jokes about it too,but,do you really think he likes it when people make fun,or laugh at his name ?
İ doubt it.
İ think no one should laugh on anyone's name too.
Btw,this one should be in off the topic thread,i don't know why posting it here Elisa ?!
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16 Dec 2006 Sat 09:17 pm |
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Quoting qdemir: Quote: Most of the time it is! Remember, I teach Dutch so the books are in Dutch. What do you think my Turkish students did when they read names like 'Ben, Karin and Anne'? Exactly, they laughed! |
Trudy, you know very well what I mean exactly. However you don't want to reply me. What I am talking about is making fun of a person's name, say, making fun of a Dutch name. Mispronuncition doesn't count as you have mentioned above. I can undertand that. I think you teach your student that making fun of people (their names or ears,no difference between the two, people dont have any chance to choose)isnt good |
I DID reply you. The names Anne, Ben and Karin are very common here and my students had to laugh about the fact that a woman was called 'belly', 'me' or 'mother' as a first name. I don't blame them. Those examples have NOTHING to do with mispronounciation but with meaning. There are more examples, I will give (like Deli_Kizin did above) though I am afraid you just don't listen.
Family names in Holland: Naaktgeboren - born naked; Spring-in-het-Veld = Jump in the Field; Niemandsverdriet - Nobodies Sorrow; Slager - Butcher (and my former gynaecologist had that name!); Poepjes - Small shit; Slettenhaar - hair of sluts; Pijper - Person who sucks (..) etcetera.
Need more? I can't blame people for laughing. Besides, the ones who laugh most are the ones with these names.
If you don't understand that names (and other things of a person) can be funny, then there is nothing more to say. I rest my case.
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16 Dec 2006 Sat 10:09 pm |
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i think this has been taken out of context waaaaaaaay too much now,..
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