#given names

[greatrunner]

Of all the things I thought the name "Mark" might've meant, "God of War" and "Ordained by Mars" (for starters) were not one of them lmao

[greatrunner]

The Urgent Need for the Black Radical Tradition | Black Agenda Report

The U.S. is careening towards economic and military disaster, a moment when the Black radical tradition is missing but badly needed.

"Who are the Black thought leaders now that the U.S. state grows more openly fascistic by the day? While we are exhorted to ignore domestic and international events happening around us the duopoly parties give support to this latest war that violates the Nuremberg Charter’s “crimes against peace.” Who is the Kwame Ture of this day? Where are the radical voices that can provide guidance and analysis at this critical juncture of history? The late Jesse Jackson gave voice to the struggles of the Palestinian cause and to the Cuban revolution and to the fight against South African apartheid, but even at his funeral, former presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden were in attendance. They were among those people whose actions Jackson publicly opposed and who, in successive administrations, built a bipartisan consensus for imperialism abroad and neo-liberalism at home."

[bitch-potatoes]

My full name means "he who surpasses the storm desires protection" and I am devastated what kinda doomed by the narrative bs is this

[vaguely-none]

14 years of Meta today!

[greatrunner]

Marlo Stanfield was clearly preoccupied with myth-building around himself. Specifically, that the fear around his name was the end in and of itself (and dealing with potential damage done when it was smeared), but I don't think it can be overstated what names and self-naming mean to the Black diaspora.

That's really all I think about when I hear, "My name is my name."

[haxyr3]

Hello!

I was wondering, whether there are any sites with list of russian names? Just like behindthename for example. I use that site quite a lot, but I'd love to use russian resources as well!

Thank you in advance, hope you're having a good day. :)

Hi! I checked behindthename - their Russian section is pretty accurate, as far as I can tell.

I don't know if there is a website dedicated entirely to Russian names - my dear readers, if you know any please share with us!

Wikipedia provides etymological and brief cultural references for Russian names - here are Russian masculine given names and Russian feminine given names.

Have a wonderful day, too!

[shiranuieditorial]

20 inspirational names for a super summer!

List summary: 新夏、夏向、夏涼、夏艷/夏艶、琉夏、夏樂、夏怡、夏悅、夏嬉、夏歡/夏懽、梨夏、夏梅、夏蓮、莽夏、青夏、勇夏、承夏、平夏、峰夏、and 夏緒！ (Keep reading ’til the end to discover their meanings, readings, pronunciations, guide to etymology and history, and more linguistic knowledge!)

Is it just me or has this summer been unnervingly chilling for us tropical islanders? 🌞🥶

Check out this summer-inspired name bank I’ve been working on for the past 5 months!

Each name was…

→ meticulously hand-picked like exotic cherries 🍒

→ carefully translated to the best of my ability 🉑

→ and then packed with a mini beginner’s guide to 夏 (the Han character/Chinese character for “summer”, used throughout the Sinosphere) 📖

→ which contains its standard readings in many languages: Mandarin Chinese, Dungan Tili, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Wu, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese! 🀄

(If you need info on any other topolect, dialect, or time-specific variant not mentioned here, just ask away! I’ll see what I can do for ya!)

👉🏼 An incredibly versatile character, it’s impossible to run out of given names containing/based on 夏!

The possibilities are endless, and the only limit is our imagination! 💡

👉🏼 If we visit the Wiktionary entry for 夏, we’ll see a whole lot more linguistic variants & historical hypotheses on this ancient grapheme dating back to 2070 BC, and even a reconstruction of its Middle Chinese & Old Chinese pronunciations based on recovered millennia-old scripts! 😱

👇🏼 Comment “Wiktionary” and I’ll send you the link to read further. It’s very interesting to read, whether you’re a curious beginner or a veteran Sinologist.

❓ QOTD 1: Which name stood out to you in particular? 🤔

❓ QOTD 2: Do you know what the difference is between “reading” and “pronunciation”? 🗣️

👇🏼 Also also also, let me know what you think of this list! 📜

Is it interesting enough? Are the tables mathematical enough? Are my font choices weird enough? Have I managed to convince you that I’m secretly an omniscient Taoist immortal from the 16th century BCE here to steal all the trees off your backyards, or should I try harder? If so, what other attempts at floor-length grocery lists should I make to satisfy your most honourable expectations?

Remember—your plants are at stake here! 🧚🏼‍♀️🌲🌳🌴

[greatrunner]

Forever thinking about the way Elektra says "Matthew" in Daredevil.