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News & ArtsTuesday, November 27, 2012
??!! Things Not to Name Your Baby: Part 3,974 in a Series
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Maybe don't name your new daughter Hashtag.
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I'm pretty sure you're going to get teased at school no matter what your name is. The idea that kids get bullied because they have a weird name is classic victim blaming. It's like saying sissy kids deserve to be bullied. In fact, kids get teased because schools are bullying incubators. Bringing up the next generation of bullies is what schools do best.
Also, I think somebody's cultural privilege is showing.
Also, I think somebody's cultural privilege is showing.
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I named my boys "Baud", "Ping", and "Newsgroup", so who am I to judge. My cousin "Eight Track" named his baby girl "CB Radio", which is a lot worse.
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The poor kid's idiot parents will receive their just desserts when the kid turns 18, at which time she will chop them into McNugget-sized pieces and store them in a freezer somewhere...
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I foresee absolutely no problems at all.
I do not know what you people are talking about.
This will be perfectly fine once she gets to high school or college and is known to all of her friends as "Hash" or "Hashy".
I do not know what you people are talking about.
This will be perfectly fine once she gets to high school or college and is known to all of her friends as "Hash" or "Hashy".
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#7, 8
The amazing thing is that people are doing it now!
Hashtagging sounds like something from the ARPANET when everyone had 75 baud modems...or else from telegraphs and telexs.
This is the great irony that with 1Gpbs fiber and 3-D graphics we can still say a lot with a few ASCII chars.
The amazing thing is that people are doing it now!
Hashtagging sounds like something from the ARPANET when everyone had 75 baud modems...or else from telegraphs and telexs.
This is the great irony that with 1Gpbs fiber and 3-D graphics we can still say a lot with a few ASCII chars.
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@7 Exactly. Hashtag may be completely obsolete in a few years. This will be awful for the poor kid. Just ask my cousin, Be Kind Rewind.
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Hashtag is more of a boy's name.
There was also a Brazilian kid named Facebookson - but the judge registering the birth wouldn't accept it ("not a real name"), and they successfully sued for the right to ruin their son's life.
There was also a Brazilian kid named Facebookson - but the judge registering the birth wouldn't accept it ("not a real name"), and they successfully sued for the right to ruin their son's life.
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I'm surprised that no one has yet followed the social media neologism route and come up with a completely novel word/name for their kid like Google, Twitter, Reddit, Zynga ...
In the future, kids will have to secure their Gmail and web address at birth to retain IP rights. Hence, unique name.
In the future, kids will have to secure their Gmail and web address at birth to retain IP rights. Hence, unique name.
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