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Re: does it sound too Spanish ? advice please ..

by overtheclouds

5/13/2013, 7:11 AM

in reply to a message by melpy

Funny you should say that. I knew a Bosnian girl called Esmeralda.

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- Sofia +2

5/13/2013, 6:05 PM

Certain celebrity, literature and soap opera names are quite common among Bosnian Muslims. Esmeralda was both after the book character and a Spanish telenovella character from the 1990s (currently Turkish soaps are all the rage here and names like Onur, Kerim, Melek, Boran, Sila, etc. crop up in BAs). Also names like Elvis, Indira, Šeherezada, etc. are common.

- overtheclouds +1

5/14/2013, 1:22 PM

Interesting. I remember reading on a message board that Lamija is popular because of a Turkish soap.

Elvis is kinda funny. :)

- Sofia

5/14/2013, 2:04 PM

Elvis is nothing compared to Jamezdin (that's a contraction of James Dean, lol and it's pronounced YAH-mehz-deen).

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