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ArchivesHa! Kre8ive names have also hit...
in reply to a message by Anneza
...your neck of the woods :) I can picture patriotic Boers naming their daughters "Anneza" :P
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Kre8ivitee hit my neck of the woods big time in 1936, when the patriotic lads commemorated their Great Trek away from British colonialism and into their own version ... there are still some elderly women around who answer to names like Eeufesia (Centenary-Festivilla) and Doringdraadina (Barbed-Wirena), this to bear witness to the concentration camps set up by the Brits for Boer women and children during the Boer War.
Even worse, we had a Foreign Minister in the 1950s, an unlovable little ideologue, who actually named his son (born in the previous decade) Izan. Spell it the other way round. Yes, his son was a backward Nazi. It blows the mind ...
Even worse, we had a Foreign Minister in the 1950s, an unlovable little ideologue, who actually named his son (born in the previous decade) Izan. Spell it the other way round. Yes, his son was a backward Nazi. It blows the mind ...
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Poor Izan, paying for his dad’s sins with such a name... I’m sure it has limited the scope of his career choices! On the flip side of the totalitarian coin, some really absurd names were granted to unfortunate children born during the not-so-gay Stalinist era! In Greece, there are quite a few Lenins and Stalins, all born in the late 1940s of communists parents. Most have now changed their names to George. Marxist-chic names abounded in former communist-bloc countries, including Vladilen/a (from Lenin), Titoslav/a, Titomir/a, Staljingradka, Komsomolka (Komsa), Ruska, Vjazma, Sutjeska, Neretva, Petoletka (five year plan), and pythonesque names such as Traktor/ka (sic!), Locomotive/va as well as -- hold on to your hat! -- an Aremenian name meaning "five year plan completed in four years." (check out http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/kokkalis/GSW2/Aleksov.PDF) :P
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