• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I mean depending on their ethnic background naming the kid Moana would have been an issue for reasons besides being teased for being named after a disney princess.

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      4 months ago

      If you can only name kids after your own ethnic background there’s a lot of Richards/ Riciardos/Jeans/Jans/Johns/Stephen/Joris/Mubaraks/Etiennes out there that are mislabelings.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        All of those examples are linguistic drift though.

        Naming a white girl moana isn’t the same as some guy named Peter and his russian buddy Pyotr realizing that their names derive from the same origin in Greek (or Aramaic depending on how much you wanna argue Kefa should count as the origin since Petros was a direct translation of it as a name)