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15 August 2014 @ 09:41 pm

Hit 42 | Video

Everyone's got a name or at least something close to it. But do you guys know what your names actually mean, or the reason you were given that name? We give pokémon names to set them apart, but does the way you name yours mean anything special? I just named this guy Lemon Twist since he reminds me of striped lemon candy.

[It’s been a boring day, for once Killua didn’t feel like doing something insane. Instead he’s just laying on his Dunesparce.]

It's interesting when you think about it: someone or you yourself has been given this word to identify by and it could have some really deep mean behind it. It could be something that a person thought sounded cute but in the end it's pretty sucky for you. For example, someone could have named their kid after a word that sounds cool yet it could mean horse-shit in the language its from.

I sort of lucked out with the way my parents named me and my siblings, but it has me wondering about everyone else. So tell me what your names mean.

Tags: bored but not antsy, kil loves lemon twist, squishy weirdo snake

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killer_sweets on August 16th, 2014 08:53 pm (UTC)
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I'm always interesting in learning about other worlds' countries, so go right ahead.

Edited 2014-08-16 09:02 pm (UTC)

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橘真琴 | tachibana "team mom" makoto: i told him there's a pool like 15 times

teammother on August 16th, 2014 09:23 pm (UTC)
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Well, okay. Give me a sec--

[ and he pulls out a small notebook and pen before writing his name, larger than normal so the characters (真琴) can be easily seen. turning it to face the camera, he continues: ]

Right... so, you can stop me at any time if this gets boring, but this is how you spell my name. "Makoto" can be a name for girls and boys, but most of the time if people were going to name a boy Makoto, they'd just use the first character on its own. The second one means an instrument that's kind of like a harp, so it makes it sound more like the kind of name you'd give a girl. Does that make sense...?

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killer_sweets on August 16th, 2014 09:43 pm (UTC)
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I think I get it. So allow it would just mean the same but the addition give it a female tone?

That something that happens in kanji, right? [Botan had just been talking about how her name was spelt too.]

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橘真琴 | tachibana "team mom" makoto: kawaii in the streets

teammother on August 16th, 2014 09:51 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, more or less! That first one on its own just means "truth", but if you add the second kanji too, I guess the meaning might be closer to something like "true harp"...? Something like that, anyway!

Of course, then you have names which can have many completely different meanings depending on the kanji while still sounding exactly the same, ahaha.

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killer_sweets on August 16th, 2014 11:04 pm (UTC)
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That sounds a bit complicated, but then the only way anyone would know the spelling is unless tell them or they see it. That's more of a universal thing, now that I think about it. You're way just has another layer to it.

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橘真琴 | tachibana "team mom" makoto: that guard you killed had a family

teammother on August 16th, 2014 11:39 pm (UTC)
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Oh, when you put it like that, that's true! Does the meaning stay exactly the same then, when that happens?

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killer_sweets on August 17th, 2014 12:07 am (UTC)
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At that point I guess it's just to make the names dissimilar visually.

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橘真琴 | tachibana "team mom" makoto: well now that you mention it

teammother on August 17th, 2014 12:31 am (UTC)
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That does make sense for avoiding confusion and things, I guess...

Oh, what about you? You said you thought you lucked out with your name, right?

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killer_sweets on August 17th, 2014 12:38 am (UTC)
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My parents have an interesting way for naming me and my siblings. The last syllable one name will be the starting syllable for the next siblings name.

Starting with the oldest; it goes Illumi, Milluki, Killua that's me, Alluka, and Kalluto.

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teammother on August 20th, 2014 08:08 pm (UTC)
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Oh, I see! That's actually really clever, how did they think of something like that?

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killer_sweets on August 28th, 2014 04:00 am (UTC)
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I never got around to asking about it so I'm not to sure. Maybe my did it that way on a whim.

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teammother on August 28th, 2014 07:27 pm (UTC)
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Maybe...! Naming people or pets almost seems like something that you'd need to think about, though.

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Killua Zoldyck: Sorry I don't speak boring

killer_sweets on August 29th, 2014 01:49 am (UTC)
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They thought about the way to do it but they might not have a reason. That's a bit more creative then what most people would do at least.

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