s/o names (yes this needed its own post)

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DD has a preschool classmate named Raghavendra.  Every day when they get to class, they have to write their names before they can do anything else.  Poor Raghavendra, sitting there, laboring over his letters while all the other 1 or 2 syllable kids frolic around.  I feel like the teacher should let him get away with Rag or something.  

And this is the poor kid that DD first introduced to me as "Ahmadinejad".  LOL   She knew it was something with 4 syllables, I guess.

[poppyseed]

How do you even pronounce her name?

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Rog (with a hard g)-a-ven-dra

[hisno1girl]

Maybe he or his parents don't want him to go by Rag?

Rag. Yeah, that wouldn't be a target for teasing.

[anasara]

DH is from India & has a name that causes most Americans to head tilt.  But what's really awesome is when he calls a 800# & you have to use voice navigation to get through the menu.  He gets all frustrated because his accent confuses the computer, then he ironically gets connected to a call center in India.

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Lol. Our kids will all have short first names because the middle and last name is 22 letters combined.

[papie]

That was me in kindergarten and elementary school. My parents called me papie, but my official name was greek and has 5 syllabes and 10 letters and is impossible to pronounce (trust me, DH can't even pronounce it). After a week of kindergarten, the teachers wanted to talk to my parents because they thought I was deaf. Turns out, I just refused to answer to that name, lol. So I spent elementary school cutting the teachers when they clled the names saying "Yes, my name is GNFFFUGIUHBMI but can you call me papie?".

After that, once I was a teenager, my parents made an official name change request and had my first name registered as papie, middle name JGMGIFGYGMG. The end.

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Feb 5, 2013 15:52:36 GMT -5 @weeble said:

Rog (with a hard g)-a-ven-dra

see, that makes perfect sense with the spelling, but i want to call her venny or something.  anything.

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Feb 5, 2013 16:23:40 GMT -5 cville said:

Feb 5, 2013 15:52:36 GMT -5 @weeble said:

Rog (with a hard g)-a-ven-dra

see, that makes perfect sense with the spelling, but i want to call her venny or something.  anything.

He's a boy!  Poor, poor Raghavendra.

[papie]

Feb 5, 2013 16:20:05 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Feb 5, 2013 15:58:42 GMT -5 papie said:

That was me in kindergarten and elementary school. My parents called me papie, but my official name was greek and has 5 syllabes and 10 letters and is impossible to pronounce (trust me, DH can't even pronounce it). After a week of kindergarten, the teachers wanted to talk to my parents because they thought I was deaf. Turns out, I just refused to answer to that name, lol. So I spent elementary school cutting the teachers when they clled the names saying "Yes, my name is GNFFFUGIUHBMI but can you call me papie?".

After that, once I was a teenager, my parents made an official name change request and had my first name registered as papie, middle name JGMGIFGYGMG. The end.

Dumb Q, but is your name really Papie? If not, what does Papie mean? I've probably asked his before. For some reason, your screenname has always intrigued me.

lol, no it is not. 

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Feb 5, 2013 16:27:17 GMT -5 @weeble said:

Feb 5, 2013 16:23:40 GMT -5 cville said:

see, that makes perfect sense with the spelling, but i want to call her venny or something.  anything.

He's a boy!  Poor, poor Raghavendra.

Ven.  ven works.  lol.

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I'm all for culture but there HAS to be a simple version of that name or a great nickname the kid can use. Or even just "R", let him sign in with "R"

LOL at anasara's husband, we have found the guy who is "thank god! A call center!"