What do vietnamese children call their grandmothers and great-grandmothers?
children speaking to... mom's mother : ba ngoai dad's mother: ba noi great grandmother: ba co elders speaking to grandchildren: chao ngoai/noi
How to distinguish between grandparents if both sets are Grandma and Grandpa?
Both sets of my 2.5 year old daughters grandparents are Grandma and Grandpa. She's been calling them that for months now. This morning, as I was getting her out of bed, I told her "Today we're going over to Grandmas house for dinner and then you will be having a sleepover at Grandpas house" Grandma being my mum and Grandpa being my boyfriends dad. It got me thinking about when she's older and the possibility of it confusing her a bit, not knowing which grandparent she will be seeing. If your kids call both sets Grandma and Grandpa, how do you distinguish between them?
Movie husband kills wife with weights. parents see glowing blood in the dark?
In a Child's Name (1991 TV miniseries) IMDb synopsis: A true story about a woman who fights her brother-in-law's parents for custody of her deceased sister's baby upon learning that her brother-in-law murdered her sister. IMDb review: Kudos to Valerie Bertinelli as Angela Cimarelli, the concerned sister who realizes something is awry with her sister's "perfect" marriage. Her sister (Karla Tamburrelli) marries Kenneth Taylor (Michael Ontkean), who is a dentist with a supposedly great future. However, he cheats on his wife, and, when they return from their honeymoon, she already has been physically abused. Only Angela has the first instinct: something is wrong. ... Kenneth buys the obligatory overpriced house, has a thriving practice, and is finally in control; he can pop home at lunchtime, do a few lines of cocaine and go back to his work as an oral surgeon. His life is perfect~he thinks. Then, his wife informs him she is pregnant. Their child clearly is an inconvenience to him. The scenes where he disposes of the body and the interactions between the sisters are very emotional. The Luminol scenes while the police investigate the house are disturbing and effective. Kenneth's mother asks the police why the bedroom is glowing. Here are a couple of film clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhBm08WEg... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HIbVKgQe...
Why do some Indians give rhyming names to their kids?
A very good question.I am the victim of this rhyming thing since childhood. My parents were so happy when they give name to me and my sister "payal-kajal" [P.S. we are not twins at all..She is younger than me.Even we don`t look similar at all. n Still the irony of names]Yeah super duper rhyming.Even the people got confused when they meet us.Even they forget our names.Mostly exchange/interchange our names In some extreme cases our names are called out like "pajal-kayal" ,"Payal-Kayal","Pajal-Kajal" #FacePalm...Seriously!!!! Is The Tounge Twister Competition Going On?Whenever i face this in my daily life, I asked my mom everytime. Don`t you have some other name for us. Though the names are simple,elegant.But why this rhyme sort of thing. She said that it seems cool to have rhyming names of the kids in the 90s. This was seen as a symbol of epitome in those days. Also one of the reason she gives me is that it was easy to pronounce those names by my grandparents. Nothing can be done now..This name is my identity...And i am happy with it..:)
What is the tradition behind some Chinese and Korean families reusing the same character in names across different generations?
Many families follow the tradition of using a set of five generational characters in a cyclic fashion, at least for naming boys. Each of the five characters corresponds to one of the Five Agents (or Five Modes of Action, which are fire, earth, metal, water, wood), and they are used in that order, repeating after five generations. All of the brothers in one generation will therefore have one character in their names in common but will be distinguished by the other character. (Some families break with this tradition or never followed it in the first place and may even give their children one-character names.) If you meet a man who is a member of your own clan and subclan, you can tell by his name whether you are of the same generation or are of a higher or lower generation. Armed with this knowledge, you can usually figure out how to address each other without having to ask too many questions about age and so on, although the new acquaintances are likely to ask questions to find out just how closely related they are. This sort of "first-meeting ritual" seems to be dying out among young people in Seoul, but my observations indicate that it is still alive in the countryside and provincial cities. In any case, the use of generational characters in naming boys does not seem to be fading much.
Should I change my surname when I get married? My name means a lot to me. I’m educated and have started a career, but more so I worry I will feel my identity is lost without it. My fiancé doesn’t mind either way, but I can’t decide.
I changed my name.“Vrana” means crow in Czech. Crows are one of the smartest animals in the world, one of the few to have solved an eight-step puzzle. Yes, I’d like to be associated with that.We also like say we’re ravens. We call our home Ravenscote, which means ‘a protected area for ravens.’And we own any number of crow/raven paraphernalia. Because it scares the guests.My maiden name, Schneider, quite German, came from my paternal grandfather who was adopted, so it’s not my true lineage. It’s just a bond with people I love, a bond that is also evident in my well-developed calf muscles, razor-sharp wit and the time we spend together as a family.My husband wanted to keep his surname because he is one of two surviving Vranas of his line. I respect that.My husband’s and my grandparents’ surnames all originate from the same region of the world. So I didn’t feel like I was signaling a different ethnicity than I am.Hyphenated-names are a pain in the ass. Get them wrong on one government form and you spend the rest of your life fixing it.I had no qualms about taking my husband’s name; I’m an emancipated female, don’t need my own last name to prove it. (Thank you Feminism.)I like being called The Vranas. Like the unit we are. I sign things “The Vranas.” Saves time.My career was not impacted, people learned my last name as soon as I told them. It is very easy to change an address entry.At the same time, I got rid of a few hundred people in my address book who I did not tell. Always good to purge.Those were all nice reasons but most made me feel ok about it after the fact.I took his name because I was never attached to my surname. My identity is Ellen. Always has been.But MOST OF ALL, I took my husband’s surname because I really like it!Vrana is badass.People get thoroughly confused by it. It’s original. It rhymes with things ‘Vrana the piranha’. It means a really smart animal, in a really cool language.What more could you want from a surname?There is no right or wrong answer. There isn’t even right or wrong criteria.Choose what you can live with.I’m a Vrana, evermore.(The Vranas)EDIT: Thanks to Zeibura S. Kathau (who also has a pretty badass name) who sent me these photos of Prague. According to Zeibura: bílá vrána is a white crow but havran means raven.(I’m *kinda* a big deal in Prague.)