Tuesday, 1 April 2008

Kids names

Small Children are a joy.

They lack the
filters that make older people such a trial. A tired chils will look tired, an excited child will look excited etc. no lies, no pretending, there is just no reason to.

A note about Korean english education. Children are encouraged to select an English name to save them the problems that occur when speakers of a non phonetic language like english have a crack at a new word and so that yoeun min and youn min aren't confused. Korean names are straight forwards names like "Gift of Jewels" are common and sound quite nice ;) , but the name system in english is a little harder to master.
For any koreans that stumble across this page, the following are not great english names for yur kids.

Vanilla,
Cherry,
The foods are good, the names are not.

Mery, Although a merry child, Mary would suit better.

Evil. Maybe but not good to point it out.

Dio. just not cool

Beryl. Not a good boys name.

Nicole, Also not a good boys name.

Bin, good in korean, not good in english.

When it comes to it, lord knows how they manage with the examples that exist in the media such as moonunit zappa or the US swimmer Misty Hymen.

Its a funny world

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