The Beatles Bible - Forum: All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 Gerell on The name thread http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74900 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74900 Yep I studied Romance languages and Germanic languages, even inanimate objects are given genders. In Romance Languages usually there are only two genders and you have to use a different article for each one like in Spanish el for masculine and la for feminine what's even more confusing is that it's completely based on nothing, like it's random. For example la corbata, corbata means necktie, which obviously only males use but why did it have a feminine form? RANT RANT RANT. Oh and there's German which has three genders, masculine, feminine and neutral.

 

]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 04:47:02 +0100 Egroeg Evoli on The name thread http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74867 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74867 I don't know if you're talking about just names or all words, but in many European languages, words that most English-speaking people would not consider to have a gender are given a gender, if that makes any sense, and they have specific endings. Also, words that are gender-specific in both English and languages other than English have specific endings.

Example: Spanish for "friend"--  male = amigo; female = amiga.

I don't know if any of this makes sense...

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Funny Paper said
Europeans are more open and knowledgeable to linguistic exceptions, rather than keying in on what sounds right (e.g., an "-a" ending must always be feminine in America).

 

Of course, there are exceptions to that rule. I am reminded of the Suzanne Vega song "Luka", about a young boy suffering child abuse/neglect. Luka is never a feminine name, always male.

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 22:17:25 +0100 Funny Paper on The name thread http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74863 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74863 Interesting that "Andrea" means "manly" (from the Greek for "man" -- aner, andros -- from which we also derive "anthropology" etc.), because in America, "Andrea" is strictly a girl's name.

Europeans are more open and knowledgeable to linguistic exceptions, rather than keying in on what sounds right (e.g., an "-a" ending must always be feminine in America).  Same goes for the virtual impossibility in America for a guy to have "Maria" in his name, while it's relatively common in Europe.

There's an Italian opera singer -- quite a burly manly guy -- named "Andrea Bocelli".

I don't know if this is related, but ...]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 21:52:16 +0100 AppleScruffJunior on Congrats Joe And Ellie!!! http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/congrats-joe-and-ellie/page-4/#p74860 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/congrats-joe-and-ellie/page-4/#p74860 Silver hammer maan-an-an

*bang bang*

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 21:14:07 +0100 Egroeg Evoli on Congrats Joe And Ellie!!! http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/congrats-joe-and-ellie/page-4/#p74855 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/congrats-joe-and-ellie/page-4/#p74855 Clang clang, Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that he was dead...

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 19:29:11 +0100 Egroeg Evoli on The name thread http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74854 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74854 Wow, never even noticed that. heart

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 19:28:00 +0100 DrBeatle on The name thread http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74853 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74853

AppleScruffJunior said
Sorry to go off topic but whenever I see the date you registered DrBeatle it very slightly breaks my heart :(

I'm right there with you :cry:

 

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 19:24:32 +0100 AppleScruffJunior on The name thread http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74852 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74852 Sorry to go off topic but whenever I see the date you registered DrBeatle it slightly breaks my heart :(

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 19:23:38 +0100 DrBeatle on The name thread http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74848 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74848 My name is Andreas...my family originally came to the USA from Greece in the late 1910s/early 1920s, I'm 2 3/4 Generation Greek American (what I mean by this is that 3 of my grandparents were born here in America to Greek immigrants, while my 4th grandparent immigrated here from Greece). It means "manly" or "of man" in Greek. However, my entire life, I've gone by Drew (since Andreas is the Greek version of Andrew). My parents wanted me to be called Drew but did *not* want me to be called Andy, so they gave me the Greek name (it's also ...]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 19:07:14 +0100 AppleScruffJunior on Congrats Joe And Ellie!!! http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/congrats-joe-and-ellie/page-4/#p74847 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/congrats-joe-and-ellie/page-4/#p74847 BANG BANG Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon his head

2 hours late but it's the thought that counts

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:22 +0100 fabfouremily on The name thread http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74843 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74843 a-hard-days-night-ringo-8 Better, thank you :D

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 18:39:59 +0100 Egroeg Evoli on The "Incredibly Impossible to Derail This Thread" thread http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-incredibly-impossible-to-derail-this-thread-thread/page-207/#p74841 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-incredibly-impossible-to-derail-this-thread-thread/page-207/#p74841 RIP, Ray heart

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 18:33:01 +0100 Egroeg Evoli on The name thread http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74840 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/the-name-thread/page-2/#p74840 a-hard-days-night-ringo-8 Hope you're in a good mood today! heartapple01

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Linde said
I thought that was aimed at the Beatles related topics? This is a topic in a non-Beatles section and surely if there's a topic for ''what people are eating now'' or whatever, there could also be a topic on names and their meaning? I personallly find it much more interesting to read about names with meanings, than to read someone is having pizza for dinner. But hey, each to his own (or whatever that expression is)

Edit: Ah I was too slow!

That's actually quite true. I apologise, I was in a bad mood the other day.

 

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