Names Of People In The 60's

[Candy]

Dutch version had Ari?l afaik. Don't think it's a mistake

[mystran]

Ariel says me, and I remember seeing the US version. Then again, I might remember wrong.

[Oliver]

Dutch version had Ari?l afaik. Don't think it's a mistake

Has this world gone mad? Do people just want to make their kids different from others with giving them names that are really weird or what... . I hope Ari?l afaik never gets as common as John Smith

[rwfromxenon]

Chantelliza and Ferrarri-Sabrina-Britney.

My God, that's horrid!
Chavs, I presume?

Yep. Fusking chavs. Everytime I see one, I want to remove their eyes and replace them with grenades.

[Candy]

Has this world gone mad? Do people just want to make their kids different from others with giving them names that are really weird or what... . I hope Ari?l afaik never gets as common as John Smith

The world hasn't gone mad, the world is just a small tad larger than the US thinks it is. Around 95% of the people in the world couldn't care less about the US.

Hence, the name will almost certainly be more common in the Netherlands than John Smith, if only because the latter is a US name and not a dutch name. Had you said Jan Janssen it would've been the other way around. And yes, the US people will think that's an awkward way of spelling Ian but it's been done a lot longer than the US way.

[CESS.tk]

Relax now, Candy. Oliver was only kidding. For one thing, he's Estonian, so I doubt John Smith is very popular over there. Secondly, he said "I hope Ari?l afaik never gets as common as John Smith", pretending he was ignorant of the acronym 'afaik'. Also note the at the end of his sentence.

[Candy]

sorry, kind of jumped at the us-implicit-ness of this thread... can't stand that kind of arrogance on international boards.

[distantvoices]

Oh, no bad feelings. A certain gruffyness comes seldom from nowhere and sometimes one *has* a bad mood and it loads off in one way or the other.

as for "Arielle": If I've got the chance to christen a female child of mine, I'd give her this name too.So a la "Christina Arielle ..." It 'd sound cute and anyway, she'd have a choice between some names. Althou, 'Patricia' is one I 'd avoid for unknown reasons.

[I Lostalim]

Being Australian and all, the only version of the Little Mermiad I've seen is the English (US) one...
The main character's name is spelt "Ariel" - the merchandising is still selling!

Although I do rather prefer the European spelling given somewhere above - But then I guess that's what I get for speaking a language that is formed from so many other different languages (new words were added everytime somebody different conquered England!)

[distantvoices]

@I Lostalim: You're Australian? *me gets green due to envy*

The only pieces I'll ever see (me being Austrian where no Kangaroos are jumping around - except of the Tiergarten Sch?nbrunn *winkwink*) from Australia is the good ol' Drizabone 'n the didgeridoos.

[I Lostalim]

My German is a little Rusty - But that was something about a Zoo, an Animal Garden?

heh - Yeah, you've got to love the Drizabone - beautiful coats those are.

As for Kangaroos, you can have a few, we've plenty to spare... Just the other day, I was driving home late and there was one just sitting in the middle of the road. It just watched me as I changed lanes to go around him. They only come near the roads during the night.... during the day they're just lazy and sleep.

[bubach]

And, with Swedes being pretty liberal with everything, and Mohammed being a nice-sounding name, I can also picture Swedish kids being Mohammed without any Muslim background at all.

I can almost garantee you that no Swede would call his son Mohammed...
As long as it doesn't pass Christoffer in the top 100's... ::)

/ Christoffer