Ormond Posted March 13, 2022 Author Share Posted March 13, 2022 Here's the link to today's column. I would have liked to include novelist Trey Ellis as an example of a famous Trey. One reason I didn't is that I simply was not able to find reliable information as to whether he has "Trey" on his birth certificate or if it's a nickname for him. https://omaha.com/lifestyles/cleveland-evans-remembered-as-popular-slang-trey-continues-as-a-nickname-or-signifying-the-third/article_cfc5c70c-9fcc-11ec-90b6-b3c5fe88a13d.html Mlle. Zabzie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywin et al. Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 @Ormond, a strange look into the work you love: Who said there were no knew names? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted March 16, 2022 Author Share Posted March 16, 2022 I had heard of the name of Elon Musk's child before, but I guess I just did not pay attention to the name and profession of the child's mother. Looking her up on Wikipedia I found the following: Quote Boucher began writing music under the name Grimes in 2007. Her performer name was chosen because at the time, MySpace allowed artists to list three musical genres. She listed "grime" for all three, without knowing what the grime music genre was.[21][22] Grimes is self-taught in music and visual art.[23][24] So if Wikipedia is correct (and please someone tell me if it isn't), this person initially gave herself the pen/stage name Grimes based on a term for a musical genre she knew nothing about. Evidently she just thought "grime" sounded cool. This sort of makes her choice of a name for her child much more understandable. Tywin et al. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 Here is the link to today's column: https://omaha.com/lifestyles/cleveland-evans-evelyn-historically-popular-for-both-men-and-women/article_e1f75560-aad2-11ec-ab77-bff85455f687.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 Here's the link to today's column. Sorry I did not have enough room to mention Jonas Salk. https://omaha.com/cleveland-evans-old-testament-or-modern-use-jonas-continues-to-give/article_fef59868-b5de-11ec-abd5-23194df93272.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywin et al. Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Think of all the money you've left on the table @Ormond: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 Yeah, well I would think anyone both rich enough and neurotic enough to pay someone $10,000 for this would also likely be the sort of person to sue you 13 years down the road when their teenage daughter goes through the "I hate my name, why didn't you name me something else" phase that a lot of kids go through. I don't need the aggravation of dealing with such people. Now if any film or TV producer wants to pay me $10,000 to help name a character I'm available. Mlle. Zabzie and Tywin et al. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywin et al. Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 57 minutes ago, Ormond said: Now if any film or TV producer wants to pay me $10,000 to help name a character I'm available. And if posters want to pay you in like buttons for their short stories? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mlle. Zabzie Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 On 3/27/2022 at 2:20 PM, Ormond said: Here is the link to today's column: https://omaha.com/lifestyles/cleveland-evans-evelyn-historically-popular-for-both-men-and-women/article_e1f75560-aad2-11ec-ab77-bff85455f687.html Wasn’t Evelyn Waugh’s wife’s name also Evelyn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiko Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 (edited) Sorry for the threadjack but I believe it's a place where I can find people interested in language details. I'm afraid it won't be read in an extra thread. Anyway here is my question: I have stumbled over the following Quote The suspects behind the latest plot communicated in a chat group called Vereinte Patrioten, German for United Patriots It describes what some Germans do in Germany using the German language. So the "German for..." feels strange to me. Shouldn't it read "translates to..." or something similar. The way it is written feels like there is something English that the Germans in question translated to German. As if United Patriots is the source and Vereinigte Patrioten not. Not sure if I'm right but for me it feels different to what they intended to write Edited April 14, 2022 by kiko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 16 minutes ago, kiko said: Sorry for the threadjack but I believe it's a place where I can find people interested in language details. I'm afraid it won't be read in an extra thread. Anyway here is my question: I have stumbled over the following It describes what some Germans do in Germany using the German language. So the "German for..." feels strange to me. Shouldn't it read "translates to..." or something similar. The way it is written feels like there is something English that the Germans in question translated to German. As if United Patriots is the source and Vereinigte Patrioten not. Not sure if I'm right but for me it feels different to what they intended to write How would this be written in German the other way? If you wanted to say that "United Patriots" meant in English what "Vereinigte Patrioten" did in German? I am not an expert on language structure, but I do seem to remember that what preposition is put into a phrase can be very idiomatic and varies a great deal from language to language. In English the construction "X is (foreign language name) for Y" is completely normal as an equivalent for "X translates to Y" and does NOT imply that one or the other came first. It just means they have equivalent meanings. Here are a bunch of other examples of the "X is (language name) for Y" randomly selected from the web. Since I am giving them as examples of the English construction, I am not guaranteeting that the translations mentioned are fully correct. Quote Coup d'état is French for “stroke of the state” or “blow to the government.” Dzie dobry” is Polish for “Good morning” or “Good afternoon”. Ji (字) is Japanese for "symbol" or "character". Mapenzi mubashara is Swahili for 'love is beautiful'. aloha is Hawaiian for “hello,” “goodbye” and “love,” The new version of his moral philosophy was named. Homaranismo, which is Esperanto for “a brotherhood of humanity”, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Mlle. Zabzie said: Wasn’t Evelyn Waugh’s wife’s name also Evelyn? Yup. https://lithub.com/fun-fact-evelyn-waughs-first-wife-was-also-named-evelyn/ Mlle. Zabzie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 11 hours ago, Tywin et al. said: And if posters want to pay you in like buttons for their short stories? Does this belong in a thread on cryptocurrency? Tywin et al. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 On 4/10/2022 at 1:49 PM, Ormond said: Here's the link to today's column. Sorry I did not have enough room to mention Jonas Salk. https://omaha.com/cleveland-evans-old-testament-or-modern-use-jonas-continues-to-give/article_fef59868-b5de-11ec-abd5-23194df93272.html Cool read! A friend of mine named his 2 year old son Jonah because of the 1995 Weezer song "My name is Jonas" but didn't want to have the association with the Jonas brothers. And then another friend named her son Jonas for the Giver character and the Weezer song. Ormond 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiko Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Ormond said: How would this be written in German the other way? If you wanted to say that "United Patriots" meant in English what "Vereinigte Patrioten" did in German? I am not an expert on language structure, but I do seem to remember that what preposition is put into a phrase can be very idiomatic and varies a great deal from language to language. In English the construction "X is (foreign language name) for Y" is completely normal as an equivalent for "X translates to Y" and does NOT imply that one or the other came first. It just means they have equivalent meanings. Here are a bunch of other examples of the "X is (language name) for Y" randomly selected from the web. Since I am giving them as examples of the English construction, I am not guaranteeting that the translations mentioned are fully correct. It's a literal translation, so that's fine and understandable. I'm just stumbling over how it is constructed. You take an original phrase in a foreign language and then explain to your audience that it is a foreign language term for something in your local language. So far so good, you can find this construction in our language too - obviously. It just feels odd within the context. You start (mentally, not by word order) with the English phrase and arrive at the foreign language term, explaining it's the same thing. But in reality you are talking about something from that foreign environment with no local relationship. So it would feel more correct to mirror that in the language by mentally starting with the foreign term and than show how it would translate into local language. Otherwise it feels for me, as if there is an implication that the local term is well understood and probably something similar exists in the local environment. Maybe it's just me going crazy after 11 days of quarantine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 Here is the link to today's column: https://omaha.com/cleveland-evans-goldwaters-loss-sends-barry-on-downhill-slope/article_8ccf3ae0-c16f-11ec-b86b-db2d0f82e92a.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbigski Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 The two Barrys I know personally are both in their sixties. Kind of sounds like a name that should be short for something, but apparently not the case apart from Baruch. Is Barack the same root as Baruch? Other than BHO, I can't recall a Barack I know about, so maybe too small a sample size to say for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 Barack (or Barak) is Arabic and Baruch is Hebrew, but those are both Semitic languages and the two names are cognates close in meaning. Barack is from a word meaning "Blessing" and Baruch is from a word meaning "Blessed". So one is a noun and the other a verb/adjective, but basically the same concept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted May 8, 2022 Author Share Posted May 8, 2022 Here is the link to today's column. I always learn things about pop culture I didn't know before while writing these columns. I don't listen to pop music much and had actually never heard of the song "Iris" before researching this column and was amazed to see how popular it was and how many different artists have recorded it since the Goo Goo Dolls original version was a hit. https://omaha.com/lifestyles/cleveland-evans-iris-loved-as-a-flower-worshipped-as-a-goddess/article_512c3968-cbe5-11ec-a87e-5b5b21c86a85.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 Interesting. Went to college in the early/mid 90s with an Iris. Though I do think her name was derived from the flower, not the goddess... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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