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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kazan on July 05, 2006, 02:07:28 pm

Title: Call me a monkey's uncle
Post by: Kazan on July 05, 2006, 02:07:28 pm: actually my brother probably wouldn't like me calling his daughter a monkey :D

My niece was born at about 7pm on monday

Ceridwyn Celest Meek
newbs start your counters for July 3, 2024 if she looks anything like her mother! :D
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Post by: Flipside on July 05, 2006, 02:09:43 pm: LOL Congratulations :)
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Post by: Charismatic on July 05, 2006, 02:11:34 pm: Il set my counter!

...uh did i say that out loud?!?
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Post by: Kazan on July 05, 2006, 02:13:46 pm: hehe i wouldn't blame you - my bro's wife (Trudy) wears a 40DDD

yes.. THREE D
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Post by: Nuclear1 on July 05, 2006, 03:35:34 pm: Major congrats on the niece.
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Post by: Edward Bradshaw on July 05, 2006, 08:18:04 pm: Monkeys!!!

http://www.fugly.com/videos/5655/monkeys.html
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Post by: pecenipicek on July 05, 2006, 09:31:18 pm: congrats, but wtf is it with the name?!?
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Post by: Kazan on July 06, 2006, 08:10:08 am: Quote from: pecenipicek on July 05, 2006, 09:31:18 pm
congrats, but wtf is it with the name?!?

ancient celtic name
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 06, 2006, 08:20:16 am: Er, i hate to note it, but Ceridwyn is - according to some sources - a hypothetical masculine form (of Ceridwen, a Welsh goddess (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceridwen), also known as Ceredwin, Cerridwen, Keridwen, etc). :)

(wyn and wen are respectively masculine and feminine endings for welsh names; apparently the use of Ceridwyn is confined to the US in late 20th C and not seen in Wales itself)

All of that minor curiousity aside, congrats are in order :D
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Post by: Kazan on July 06, 2006, 08:25:08 am: it might be -wen instead of -wyn
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Post by: Turambar on July 06, 2006, 08:29:05 am: wonder what'll get used as a nickname

"Wen?" "Cerry?"
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 06, 2006, 09:46:40 am: Belated congrats & "you're a monkies uncle"<post scriptum ignore>
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 06, 2006, 10:09:12 am: Quote from: Turambar on July 06, 2006, 08:29:05 am
wonder what'll get used as a nickname

"Wen?" "Cerry?"

"Kerry", probably.

i've got an inkling it's pronounced Kerr-a-win or Serr-e-win, or similar.
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Post by: Kazan on July 06, 2006, 10:14:37 am: AFAIK soft C

Ceridwyn = "Serid-win"
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Post by: Flipside on July 06, 2006, 12:45:37 pm: Sounds like a very Gaelic name to be honest :)
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Post by: Kazan on July 06, 2006, 12:52:24 pm: gaelic is a celtic language
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Post by: Flipside on July 06, 2006, 01:07:52 pm: Yup, iirc it was a more based around Ireland and France, whereas Northern England and Germany etc spoke a dialect of Celtic which was older, since Gaelic had become slightly corrupted by Saxon and Norman influences, I think that's how it worked anyway :)
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Post by: Kazan on July 06, 2006, 01:19:10 pm: germans spoke germanic languages not celtic languages :wtf:
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Post by: Flipside on July 06, 2006, 01:30:31 pm: Actually, there's evidence that there were Celts in Eastern Germany as far back as the Roman Invasion, most of the country was Germanic, but not all. Either way, still a nice name, as a man who has a God-Daughter called Rhianon, I can say I quite like Gaellic names :)
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Post by: pecenipicek on July 06, 2006, 05:00:37 pm: Quote from: Kazan on July 06, 2006, 08:10:08 am
Quote from: pecenipicek on July 05, 2006, 09:31:18 pm
congrats, but wtf is it with the name?!?

ancient celtic name
oh. kay.
celts and celtic lanugages didnt have much, if any influence here...
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Post by: Kernal on July 06, 2006, 07:54:39 pm: The difference between us and monkeys is that we don`t lick our genitals after eating. :p

Congrats Kazan :)
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Post by: Gortef on July 07, 2006, 02:31:57 am: well well, congrats... Uncle Kazan :p
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Post by: redmenace on July 07, 2006, 01:31:09 pm: I thought you were the one that was a monkey(monkied ;))