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#4045: Funny Names in Haiti : A comment
From: H P <kemsere@hotmail.com>
I'm writing from my alternate email address but I couldn't help but answer
to this post.
I totally this conversation. Many time have I met people with interesting
names in Haiti. One very nice man I knew that was a mechanic, his name was
Moliere, as in the playwright. Basically the equivalent of calling your son
Shakespeare.
An other woman I met was named Loufie, I never quite figured out what that
meant.
A friend of mine had an employee called Jean-Caillou (as in Jean-Pierre, the
name Pierre being synonymous to stone in French, and caillou being an other
word for stone)
However, I have to disagree about the Ajax comment.
I know a man named Ajax. I laughed the first time I heard it too. But in
fact, Ajax is a Greek mythological figure, like Perseus or Achilles. So even
though we do think of the cleaning product, Ajax is actually a real name.
All the time though going to haiti offers many smiles from the names you
hear.
Emmanuelle
>From: Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>
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>From: archim <archim@globelsud.net>
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>
> May I add to the discussion on Haitian names? In no way am I being
> disrespectful, but since names have always been a "thing" with me, I
> offer the following:
>
> A wonderful woman who used to work for us was called "Clothilde",
> not at all an uncommon name. However, she announced to me one day
>that
> her sister, "TIOTE" was coming from Cape Haitian for a visit and to
> stay with her for a month when she delivered her baby. That was fine
> with me. I did, however, ask her what the name "TIOTE" meant, or
>where
> it came from. She told me that when her mother discovered that she
>had
> just delivered another little baby girl, she said: "O Bondie, m-te
> gegne une ti ot"! (Oh my God, I have another little one!")
>
> Another good one was a waitress in the restaurant of a friend of
> mine in Petion-Ville, whose name was "Chlorine". We always used to
> chuckle a bit when we spoke of her, but she was a sweety. One day she
> announced that her brother was arriving next week, and we mused that
> maybe his name was "AJAX". (Forgive us for making fun!) The next
>week,
> her brother arrived, and she introduced us to him: his name was
> "COMET".
>
> And then there was Bob and Janet Cope who had a baby boy and named
> him "HORACE"! (But they were not Haitians!)
>
>
>
>
>
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