Before we start I wanted gab about something I was thinking about earlier today.
I've heard that Buddy is a really common name for a dog because its what you start calling your dog before you come up with a real name and the name Buddy eventually sticks. So I was wondering in other parts of the world are their dogs with names like Homie, Essay, Braaah, Dude, Sir, Madam, Monsieur, Chingoo, Senor, Amigo et cetera?
Anyways here's what I really wanted to post about
"But I'm a girl."
"Well that's too bad, Fredrick."
This has actually happened. I haven't gotten all of the details in order to send a letter home on how changing your child's English name is completely idiotic. I'm sure her parents never call her by her English name anyway so it only inconveniences myself and her private school teachers.
Plus, Sally is a downgrade from Lily.
Apparently there's a lot of science (or fortune-teller-astrology-mumbo-jumbo) behind a Korean name. One of my co-teachers is really into this kind of stuff and was explaining it to me the other day and its really cool how parents have zero say in the child's name because its all produced by the universe. However, this is only the traditional approach to finding a name, and I think we all know that traditions are fading fast unless there's an app for it.
As I mentioned in a previous blog parents, English Academies, and sometimes the children themselves pick their English name. Obviously a combination of stars and a crystal ball cannot provide English names too because then life would be too easy. Now since there's little tradition and foundation surrounding English names they are not fixed and can be changed as frequently as a profile picture. All the power to them to change a kid's name to suit their personality but never go backwards with names, I've never met a Sally under 30 until coming to Korea. Better luck with the next name, kid's dad.
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