I have been observing lately a phenomenon that is becoming common in our country and, especially, in the rural area; meaning towns and villages, specifically in the southwest of the country.
Due to work matters, I have had to be in contact with teachers and other people in that area, and the weird tendency of parents in choosing their children names came up during the conversations. Parents use names from foreign languages or they just simply invent them. They don't care about how strange or ridiculous the name might sound.
We already have enough with the deformations of the common names in our country, and this new tendency just makes the new generations to suffer.
Somebody told me a story that seems a joke, but this person swears it's a true story. A father named his son "Usnaví" and when their friends asked him where did he got that name, he answered he'd seen it on TV. The truth was that the proud father had taken the words "U.S. Navy" as a name. I don't know if the story is a real one, everything's possible!!!.
There's another story about a certain child being called "Whitehorse", or another one talking about a girl named "Sweet Breeze of the Sea". I believe everybody knows a similar story.
Every parent is entitled to name his children whichever name he wants. However, we have to remember that we will have to live with our name our entire life (if we don't make the choice to change it) and that our name ends up being part of our personality.
The Spanish names are beautiful, but their deformations are absurd and humiliating sometimes. How can we change a beautiful name as Beatriz in "Tish"? I really don't get it! I was wondering if this phenomenon is related with Guatemalans habit to use diminutives in excess
Due to work matters, I have had to be in contact with teachers and other people in that area, and the weird tendency of parents in choosing their children names came up during the conversations. Parents use names from foreign languages or they just simply invent them. They don't care about how strange or ridiculous the name might sound.
We already have enough with the deformations of the common names in our country, and this new tendency just makes the new generations to suffer.
Somebody told me a story that seems a joke, but this person swears it's a true story. A father named his son "Usnaví" and when their friends asked him where did he got that name, he answered he'd seen it on TV. The truth was that the proud father had taken the words "U.S. Navy" as a name. I don't know if the story is a real one, everything's possible!!!.
There's another story about a certain child being called "Whitehorse", or another one talking about a girl named "Sweet Breeze of the Sea". I believe everybody knows a similar story.
Every parent is entitled to name his children whichever name he wants. However, we have to remember that we will have to live with our name our entire life (if we don't make the choice to change it) and that our name ends up being part of our personality.
The Spanish names are beautiful, but their deformations are absurd and humiliating sometimes. How can we change a beautiful name as Beatriz in "Tish"? I really don't get it! I was wondering if this phenomenon is related with Guatemalans habit to use diminutives in excess
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