It’s not only linguistic drift, it’s about awareness. Three used to be a beer narrow set of names (in western Europe) that got used, with a mostly Catholic base, so your John, Paul, Marie type names which would hear the variation of your country. Usually the ancestors would be reflected in the naming convention.

However awareness spreads through media like newspaper and film. Celebrity means that different spellings of names get noticed and get used, regardless of culture. There’s Estonian men named James, because of James Dean (or Bond). There’s kids named after fashion brands nowadays.

The boundary between appropriation and homage is thin. Is Willem Dafoes embracing his school nickname insensitive towards the Dutch? It can be cringey, like Shia Labeoufs mother making two spelling mistakes in her new french inspired last name. It’s a bit time deaf maybe but I wouldn’t personally classify it as inappropriate.

Ultimately culture works by drawing inspiration from others. Like Picasso being inspired by Cycladic sculpture and Renaissance artist by roman art.

If you can only name kids after your own ethnic background there’s a lot of Richards/ Riciardos/Jeans/Jans/Johns/Stephen/Joris/Mubaraks/Etiennes out there that are mislabelings.

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I was thinking:

You Spin Me Round by Dead or Alive

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Ah interesting. I’m not on those so I was unaware. Thnx!

I’m unsure as to why the occurrences of ‘murdered’ are censored.

Cool story bro

Allosaurus for me

Probably more etymologically so as you might expect.

You’re probably thinking of Chevrolet, which is derived from chevreuil, french for a deer.

Looks great, though pasta purists may argue that your cheese substitution would not make a true amatriciana

‘Schrodinger’s mistake’

I remember with mobile phones you’d have an app that was called shave or something like that.

It would play the sound of a shaving apparatus and you’d run your phone across your cheek pretending to shave

Now give me some sugar water

Great edit golfclap

I played TF2 since beta. I’ve played competitive (nothing major, just etf2l div 3) and been to a couple of lans. I have about 3000 hrs logged.

My mains are demo, soldier and scout. Heavy and spy I rarely play. I still hop on every now and then, on a community server that’s still going strong.

To late to have a go, as most of my guesses were already entered.

But commenting to say this is an enjoyable format, so keep them coming!

‘I’m so meta, even this acronym’

Most likely somebody identifying as Queen