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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject: Teaching makes me want to issue my own kids numbers |
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My mother was a teacher. Her and my father had a deal. He would get to name the male children produced within their union. She would get to name the female children. My mother's only rider was a set of blacklisted names, names of students she had that were just the worst little monsters. The names that would always be associated with bad memories.
Roll forward. My friend with a boy, Jae Hoon, wants me to think up an English name for him. He's just the cutest thing on the face of the earth. I realized I couldn't come up with a "normal" western name for him that wouldn't remind me of some devil child I've taught over the last 2 years.
It occurred to me when I, eventually/maybe, have my own children, it's going to be very difficult to find names for them that won't remind me of Korean Hagwon Devil children. This is why I think my only choice is to simply issue my children numbers for names. Or maybe number/letter combinations.
"X8V899 have you done your home work?"
or when I'm really mad I'd use the kid's full name "X8V899 3.1 Johnson YOU GET IN HERE THIS VERY MOMENT!"
Name this baby:
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Col.Brandon
Joined: 09 Aug 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Spiky
Joined: 29 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| He's definitely a Samuel. No doubt! |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Most of my students don't have English names, so I've been thinking about giving entire classes the same name. We could have one class of Lisa 1, Lisa 2, Lisa 3, etc., and another of Christie 1, Christie 2, etc.
That way it wouldn't seem quite so gulagish but it would still be just as practical for me. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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I've known what I wanted to call my bab(ies) since a long time ago, so when I taught last year and had to give English names to the kids, I made sure that I didn't give any of those names away.
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
Most of my students don't have English names, so I've been thinking about giving entire classes the same name. We could have one class of Lisa 1, Lisa 2, Lisa 3, etc., and another of Christie 1, Christie 2, etc.
That way it wouldn't seem quite so gulagish but it would still be just as practical for me. |
If my students don't have English names I try to convert their Korean name into something close. Unfortunately a majority of Koreans seem to have a J or H in their name. You can only have so many Jameses, Jasons, Joyces, Julias, etc. And there are few good H names for males... Henry, Herbert, Hank, Hercules. Sometimes I get sloppy and end up giving two kids the same name. They're not initially in the same class but sometimes they end up in the same class together. I'll have two Jonathans, for example. The more gregarious of the two I then call "Danger", "Okay you're Jonathan and you're Danger Jonathan". |
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Ekuboko
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
Location: ex-Gyeonggi
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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He's a real cutey, angel-face. Is he?
How about Jerry? or Alexander? or.... hmm let me think... |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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