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Help[Opinions] Re: names granted by other-language-speakers
in reply to a message by Ohad Yigal
It's never happened to me at all. Either my name or my acquaintances must be very dull.
I have met a person who said that when she was a child, she was playing in a park with other children and they asked her what her name was. It's Deborah, and they all accepted this except one little boy who said firmly 'No it isn't; it's Deirdre.' She objected, he insisted, and finally marched over to her mother, expecting to be proved right. He'd never heard of Deborah, and therefore it didn't exist. He was proved wrong, and went away: didn't play with the other kids again.
I have met a person who said that when she was a child, she was playing in a park with other children and they asked her what her name was. It's Deborah, and they all accepted this except one little boy who said firmly 'No it isn't; it's Deirdre.' She objected, he insisted, and finally marched over to her mother, expecting to be proved right. He'd never heard of Deborah, and therefore it didn't exist. He was proved wrong, and went away: didn't play with the other kids again.
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I taught kids about 4 years old, and I can say some of them don't ubderstand that names can occur more than once. I met a 4yo named Ohad who insisted he was Ohad, and I wasn't.
You must admit, he had a point. After all, you didn't look a bit like him!