Hi Amrisa Jones hon, well I am just a wee bit peeved about loosing a whole mess of posts myself, but they weren't deleted by anyone. It appears that we experience some frequent down time on this board for what ever reason, but everything stays OK if they are short duration down times. We got a long one a few months back and lost not only a couple days worth of posts, but entire threads as well, then we had another long one about three days ago now, and again lost a couple of days worth of posts. They should shoot their server and put it out of it's misery and get a new one. "hee, hee, hee." that's about the limit of my computerees language.

Well of course I do love sci-fi and rock music. I am not anything like the rest of the sixty year old folks I know, I prefer the younger generation.  By the way JodieBlonde hon My Wing Walker loves the Turtles and we both love Oldies Goldies as well.

Cindy 

Dear, the sixty year olds of today were rock-n-rollin in the Sixties to the likes of Jefferson Airplane. Don't you need somebody to love?

You know how in the film A Clockwork Orange, Alex's mom was this old lady in a miniskirt? Well that story was set in approximately right now-- around the end of the first decade in the 2000s-- and sure enough you can find women who were young in the Sixties still in miniskirts today... at the time people took it as a joke... but now it's real.

Hi Hypatia, You are quite correct but what I don't get is most of the other folks I see, are hobbling around with walking sticks and wheelchairs goodness gracious I certainly hope it wasn't from dancing to rock and roll. I do have a friend at the women's shelter where I work who is a really right on lady. She's an old hippie and has long grey hair. I guess I take after my mom, I still don't have any grey hair on my head and wear it long and when it's warm out I love wearing knee length sundresses. I walk a mile or more per day. I stay active.  Jefferson Airplane and Clockwork Orange I am quite familiar with, Big Brother and the Holding Co, Steppenwolf, Oh goodness and the list continues.

Cindy

Just a little update. I finally picked Katie as my name. I am not sure why other than it seems to fit right when I think about myself hmmm kind of like my inner voice has always had that name. *bounces* I am not even going to worry about a middle name at this point but it will prolly be something common like Ann. Anyways I know its a small thing but is one more step in the right direction in accepting myself and becoming who I was meant to be.
Katie

Krystal

I won't worry about a middle name unless you really want one.  My Mother never had a middle name ever and she lived to be 80.

Janet

Well it was kind of the name just got me in the back, i was about 10 and i had cats as pets and one of my friends started to call me Kitty i don't know why but it just took along with me...

I could never have gone with the feminized version of my birth name since I despised that moniker soooo much (still not fond of it even now) and getting rid of it officially was one of the best days of my life.

I wanted a name that sounded pretty to my own ears, and I have this crazy thing where I like some letters of the alphabet a lot more than others, so a lot of names got ruled out on that basis alone. I gave some thought to Lisa, but decided against it for a few different reasons; I liked Lynsey but didn't know how to spell it and none of the L names would have gone with my middle name anyway. I thought of Vicki but I have a relative by that name so I decided against that too. I gave a little bit of thought to Mise which is a Gaelic word meaning "I, me" (I'm a big fan of Enya and she sings a lot of Gaelic) but thought people would struggle with spelling/pronunciation (MEE-sha). I also seriously considered Athena which would have been great given my intellectualism but I knew nobody would pronounce that right (it's /ʌtʰɛ:'nɑ:/ not /ʌ'θi:nʌ/ *cringe*) and feared it might stand out too much.

I had been considering Julia as my name all along and it's a name I've always liked. (And not because of the really cute actress on Seinfeld but that couldn't have hurt, haha.) I thought I could use the three syllable form professionally and shorten it to Julie among friends. In the end I decided to just go with Julie, and eventually I came to shorten that one step further in casual interaction. Carly Simon did a song with my name in it, so yay for that. And I even know the Indo-European root and pre-form that its from: yū-l-yā which meant "little youthful one". It kind of fits because I'm very youthful in a few non-chronological ways, even if at my height I'm anything but little.

My middle name was originally given to me in honor of my aunt who disappeared when she was about 12. (Her middle name was Lee as well.) I wasn't born yet so I never knew her and from the way my mother describes her I really wish I could. So I decided to keep my middle name, even if Julie Lee is a bit repetitive.

My name's a combination of the first names of my two nans:  Annette & Jeanne.  Keen, innit?

Hmm... Julia, you may tear your hair out to know I pronounce my name the English way-- /haI 'peI ʃə/ instead of Ancient Greek /hy pʌ 'ti: ʌ/ (or even Modern Greek /i pa 'ti: a/)-- sorry, babe... but anyhow I'm glad to meet someone else who can write in IPA. In Greek my name means 'supreme, highest' and derives from proto-Indo-European *upəto- 'high' (related to *upo 'up', source of English "up" and "above").

I think Julia is a classically beautiful name, a great choice. Do you introduce yourself with the Latin pronunciation "Yulia"?

Wow it didn't even occur to me that your name could be pronounced that way. In my mind I've been reading it in the ancient Greek way although I assumed the iota was probably short and the final alpha long.

Quote from: Hypatia on July 16, 2008, 03:29:38 AMI think Julia is a classically beautiful name, a great choice. Do you introduce yourself with the Latin pronunciation "Yulia"?

Thank you! But like I said my legal name doesn't have the A - it's just Julie.... I'm not in the habit of using the Latin pronunciation, although since I've taken the French spelling and I'm mostly French by descent maybe I should start introducing myself as /ʒy'li/.

As for the IPA, well it's 'cuz I'm a polyglot.

All my life my mother reminded me that the name she choose for me was Biirtha, after her mother. The spelling is my own hoping to get people to pronounce it the way my mother said it.
I believe are parents always had two names for us.

I know some girls and guys have gone to the names lists for the year they were born to decide which would fit best for them. I mean if you are over 40 years taking a name like Destiny may have people wonder. Stay away from the Drag queen names you do not want to be known as Iwanna Man, although it is good advertising.

Also make sure your first and last name do not give you weird looks. I sort mail for medical offices and have come across some strange combinations. such as:
former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle
Harry Guy (a customer once at my job.....he was bald!)

Just added that for the humor.
I mean we have the head of one of our hospitals with the name of Dr. Dickout.
There is also Dr. Wong Ting. What about Dr. Wang. There is Dr. Andy Belch or as some mail comes Dr. A. Belech.

I have found combinations like to chuckle about on this topic:
This is how it appears in the phone book remember last name first.
Short, Dick
Beavers, Harry
Ho, Phat
Hoare, Anita
Wacker, Harry
Cox, F. Cox
Rection, Hugh G.
Hiscock, Philip
Craven, Dick
This one is a good one, wonder is that just advertising on his part:
Dickgragger, Rev. William R.
Rubright, Richard(what is the nick name for Richard, Dick)
Now a name we may want but that may mean some extra medical work:
Doubledee, Kristie
Belch, Verbyl
Long, Harden
Iona, Dickey
Iona, Bump

Hope this helps for name choices. >

You might want to add;  Richard Cranium.

a friend pick out the name from me Alexis i

My name "min" is part of my real Korean name, in American standards I think it can pass as a girl name. Another reason I chose it was because in one of the fantasy series I've read Wheel of Time there was a tomboy named Min, who was really boyish but developed into a beautiful swan.

I chose my name in a simple manner, I asked my mom what she would have named me if I was born a girl, Carolyn Ann Schaible was the name and thus I took it as my name
To me not only does it feel right, but it's a way I can still be her child because she named me.
I don't know if that makes sense but hey

Mine is Medina. I always loved this name and also it's a bit of slap in the face to my Muslim heritage. After I came out of the closet half of my family disowned me so choosing the name of the second most important city in Islam as my new female name was a right "two-finger salute" to them. It's petty but it makes me smile every time someone calls me by my new name.

I chose my name by making a list of names that I liked and that fit, then narrowing it down by crossing off ones with which I had bad associations or were names of family and friends. There's no real meaning behind it other than me liking it and having no bad associations.  And I must say how 'real' choosing a name makes the whole process feel.  I chose the name Natalie only a few days ago and I'm still riding off that sort of high I got when I chose it.  I'm still unsure about if I'm going to change my last name or not.  I probably will, as nothing really goes well with my current one.

My first name didn't feminise (Scott), so I went for the feminine form of my middle name (Andrew- Andrea). Kinda boring. I was asking friends for suggestions but I didn't like anything they came up with, and I was going to go for something cool but Andrea was all I could think of that felt comfortable. I'm still thinking of having a cool stage name though, the main contender so far is "Abortion Hackett".

well my mom and i just kinda shouted out random names and when we came to my name i knew it was for me cause it just kinda fit ya know, btw my real names krista. funny thing though, all my friends like to call me avril, av or avie because of my stricking similarities to te singer avril lavigne.

I often wondered about it so over a period of many conversations with my parents I figured out the hypothetical naming system of siblings that never were. I'm biologically male and I have a little sister who was born after me.

Her name is Emma and mine Martin... I won't say surnames. However there were 2 second preference names aswell  had we been 2girls or 2boys. Those supplementary names were Eleanor (Ellie) and Matthew (Matt).

In reality as I was born first and had I been born female my name would have been Emma and her's Ellie, things didn't work out that way but I'm fine with it.

I kinda like it... Ellie... I've never had a nickname irl.