Bogans with kids
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@Chris-B said in Bogans with kids:
The Government should offer incentives for reversible sterilisation at age 18.
$20K if you've never had a child. $18K if you have.
You can get the sterilization reversed later - but, you have to give the money back.
I think you'll find that needs to be instigated at a lower age than 18!
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12188058
I like all of the top 10 girl's names.
Am sure it would be possible to boganise them, but they all seem to satisfactorily lacking in misspellings :).
Wouldn't have thought Mia was Maori. Well it might be but I know non-Maori Mias.
Similarly Aria, Ariana (unless Ms Grande has been hiding her Whakapapa all these years), Nina, Ari, and Kai is not necessarily exclusively Maori.
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I don't have a problem with any of the top names except a slight antipathy towards a couple of the Maori boys names.
What has become more and more apparent over the last 20 years or so is how cyclical kids names are.
There was a trend for a lot of biblical names a while back but generally what I observe from my age is just how "old fashioned" todays popular names are. Kids of my generation would by and large have hated to be Oliver Jack Noah William etc as these were the names of their grandfathers. When I look at a modern list of kids names - none of the popular names of my school days even appear. Probably because we are now the grandparents ....
Still reckon Dogmeat would make a damn fine moniker for any kid. I suggest it to prospective parents all the time but they're too blinkered to see the advantages
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@booboo good work
Scharllot would work toocan you copyright names?
Boys
Ollivaah
Jaque
Knowaa
Liio
Hntahr
Jawj
Lookarz
Gaimes
Wyl-I-am
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@taniwharugby said in Bogans with kids:
Boys
Ohllivaah
Jaque
Knowaah
Liiyo
Hntahr
Jawj
Lookarzrrrrrr
Gayimesmmmz
Wyl-I-amWylHIM
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@booboo Mia is bitter in Hebrew and mine in Italian. Maia is from Greek mythology meaning mother. Nina is little girl in Spanish or pretty eyes in Hindi and was a Babylonian goddess. Ariana seems to come from the Sanskrit word Aryana meaning land of the Aryans.
Calling them Maori names is a rather long stretch.
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@Mokey said in Bogans with kids:
@booboo Mia is bitter in Hebrew and mine in Italian. Maia is from Greek mythology meaning mother. Nina is little girl in Spanish or pretty eyes in Hindi and was a Babylonian goddess. Ariana seems to come from the Sanskrit word Aryana meaning land of the Aryans.
Calling them Maori names is a rather long stretch.
It's not a long stretch to call a Maori name a Maori name even if it is also a name in another language. Personally, I've never come across Nina as a Maori name before but Ariana and Maia are fairly common.
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@Mokey said in Bogans with kids:
@Nepia If Maia in Maori is earlier than Greek mythology, I'll stand corrected. Ditto for Ariana in Sanskrit.
I don't get your point. Languages develop differently/independently, that doesn't mean that a language that develops later can't use a word (more accurately the spelling of a word) that has already developed in a previous language.
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@Mokey I'm with Nepia on this one You yourself give as an example the same word (Mia) having totally different meanings in two different languages where they developed separately. Not much of a stretch to believe what happened twice could also occur a third time.
Personally I'm bemused as to why we have a separate Maori List. Why not just the 10 most popular names - or nine and Dogmeat
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Why do we have cis-gendered lists?
With regard to the ambiguous are they aren't they Maori names just because they don't have a B, C, D, F, J, L, Q, S, V, X, Y or Z does not automatically make those names Maori.
Nina for example. I googled "Nina meaning Maori" and didn't get much other than it was imported from Eastern Europe and Russia in the 19th century ...
Am not saying it can't be Maori, just seems to me that a common usage would not be.
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@booboo said in Bogans with kids:
- Sharlotte
- Eylah
- Allyvya
- Ameelyah
- Elle-La
- Harpah
- Izsabellah
- Emaleigh
- Mia ... can't find suitable boganisation
- Ayvah
Boys are harder.
- Olivver
- Jakk
- Nowah
- Leeo
- Hunttah
- Jorjje
- Lukaz
- Jayms
- Willyamm
- Maysin
Is it bogan of me that I like Jakk?
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@Virgil said in Bogans with kids:
@booboo said in Bogans with kids:
- Sharlotte
- Eylah
- Allyvya
- Ameelyah
- Elle-La
- Harpah
- Izsabellah
- Emaleigh
- Mia ... can't find suitable boganisation
- Ayvah
Boys are harder.
- Olivver
- Jakk
- Nowah
- Leeo
- Hunttah
- Jorjje
- Lukaz
- Jayms
- Willyamm
- Maysin
Is it bogan of me that I like Jakk?
Very Star WarsyYes
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I just read an article online about a kid called Fusion...he is ill, which is why he is in the news, not cos of his name.
