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Help[Opinions] Re: Carl
in reply to a message by Tuesday
I knew a man - connection, not relative - whose given name was Mandeville. Naturally, he was known as Mandy and naturally, he didn't like this and changed it to Carl as soon as he was old enough to do so.
Clearly, therefore, he thought of it as being about as testosterone-fuelled as a name can be! So that's coloured my perceptions.
But another perception is more dodgy: where I live, people speaking English tend not to pronounce the letter r unless it's the first sound in a word or syllable. So Carl sounds like Cahl, which in its turn sounds like 'kaal', the Afrikaans word for naked. And since the former Mandy spent a lot of time pursuing ladies, living off their money and dumping them when it ran out, this seemed like a sad comment on his lifestyle and, er, assets.
Can you tell I'm not a fan?
Clearly, therefore, he thought of it as being about as testosterone-fuelled as a name can be! So that's coloured my perceptions.
But another perception is more dodgy: where I live, people speaking English tend not to pronounce the letter r unless it's the first sound in a word or syllable. So Carl sounds like Cahl, which in its turn sounds like 'kaal', the Afrikaans word for naked. And since the former Mandy spent a lot of time pursuing ladies, living off their money and dumping them when it ran out, this seemed like a sad comment on his lifestyle and, er, assets.
Can you tell I'm not a fan?
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