Lika’s Log

I was reading an online news story about this New Zealand couple who wants to name their baby 4Real. Like starting with da numba four. The courts or state or country or whoeva has da powah saying, no you can not cause gotta be alpha not numerical. So why no juss go FORREAL?

I like strange names. I neva thought of using a numerial for a name but I think SIX or SEVEN are good names, gotta spellem’ out yeah. Like if you da #6 or #7 kid or as yo’lucky numba. Or as da sixth time you wen try make baby….nah nah nah. To me SIX is one good name, SEVEN too. Den you can cutshort write your name too yeah, juss write da numba! LOL

My kids all have “original” names but not so original now cause people have named their kids afta my kids. What you know moe your own imagination? hehehe When I named my kids everybody told us the kids not going know how fo’spell’um kids going tease them blah blah blah. But you know what such is life…… When my kids were going to school they always got da question, “where your parents hippies?” NO but I use to smoke……. OH neva mind!

I read that NEVAEH is a popular name. My first thought was “ha’come you like name yo’kid Neva’eh ~ neva’eh wot? You neva make dakine, wot you neva?” Anden it said “Nevaeh” is heaven spelled backwards. DUH! I would not have thought of something la dat. To me heaven backwards is HELL! Hala? Why you wanna mess with heaven. Just name da kid flat out Heaven, although I think Heavenly sounds like a cool girls name. AND there’s a town and ski resort named that awreddy. Heavenly, NV on da NV side of Lake Tahoe.

My friends was expecting their first mo’opuna aka grandkid, right; well da babies daddy is from New Zealand a Maori. They was telling us they all got into it about naming da unborn kid because one of da ideas to name da kid…. da name started wit FAKA something woteva. In Maori “faka” is regular part of their language well my friend said “NO, I no caya; my grandkid not going have FAKA in dey name, I no like call my mo’opuna Fakateri or Faka-anything. Anden wot da kids going all callem’ FAKA U faka? FUK dat, NO way.” I don’t know wot dey named da kid but is was something faka-less.

Nowdays plenny peoples give their kids Hawaiian names without knowing anything about the name or their meaning is “its da name of their favorite beach” hence, Makena is popular.

Mainland get plenny kids named Maile, Malia, Kalani with no ties to da island yeah. And thats cool. But people need to research too and know how to pronounce da names. I asked this one girl I know whats your daughters name and she said “KAYLANI.” I asked her how do you spell it? KALANI. I said, in Hawaiian its pronouced KAH-lani. She said well I always “see” that name and I thought it was pretty.

Wow wot if all da Titamokes were la dat, dey like name dey kid afta dey favorite beach. Imagine naming da kid PRAY4SEX or TABLES. K K K namem’ afta Haunama Bay - Toilet Bowl. Oh and if you from Ewa, Ewa Beach Side, Hau Bush! Can image how many babies would be named MAGIC as in Magic Island? hehehe Oh do I sound like Augie T. LOL

When a parent names a kid they gotta take into consideration the ramifications of society yeah but mostly I think you as a parent gotta be comfortable with it. Cause you know why, YOU da one going be YELLING dat kids name. My girlfriend named here 5 kids all starting with SH - I asked her - Why did you do that because you know when you start yelling da list of kids names, you HAVE to add SHIT ~ going come out automatically. She said she realized that after they were all born all ready. LOL

Why people - famous people like name dey kid APPLE - fruit or computer - is beyond me. Or Moxie Crimefighter….Moxie is cool, but crimefighter? What if the kid turns out to be one felon, you know what I mean.

My favorite original name is a family name from East TX/LA area. When I worked for HD this guy called me about his bike right. So I pulled up his account and I pronounced his name “Q-tee-onee” and he told me no its “Q-tone.” I was like “oh I’m sorry I totally made you Italian.” I kept looking at his name on the screen and I said “Hey its not Q-tone, it says “cute one!” He started laughing and he said its an old family name. His first name “Cuteone” but they pronounce it “Q-tone.” Cool name huh?

In general giving a kid an original name is a good thing. Names have power of the individuals mana’o, yeah. Thats my thinking.

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