An educator friend of mine forwarded me this gem via email.
How would you pronounce this student’s name: “Le-a”?
Leah? NO
Lee – A? NOPE
Lay – a? NO WAY
Lei? Guess Again.
It’s pronounced “Ledasha.” Oh, yes, you read it right. This child attends a school in Livingston Parish, LA. Her mother is irate because everyone is getting her name wrong. If you see something come across
your desk like this, please remember to pronounce it correctly.
When the mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said, “The dash don’t be silent.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! I think ALL the best names that float around the interwebs have to come from Louisiana. Honest to God, that makes me homesick.
That’s just beyond scary.
OhJesusGodno…..What the hell? The dash don’t be silent? I’ll remember to start pronouncing the hyphen in my cousin’s last name now, I guess…
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
XOXO
Ok… that’s just.. well… fucked UP!
I’m slow…at first I didn’t get it. Now that I “get it”…I wish I didn’t.
This is wrong on sooooooooo many levels!
Damn good thing I’m in the second half of life, I would hate to see what the United States will look line in 2100!
No, No, NO. That just isn’t right at all!
A friend forwarded me the same email! And to think, these are the kinds of names that come across our class rosters!
“it don’t be silent” eh? lol wtf
Five bucks says that poor girl legally changes it to some pronounceable when she’s either of age, or she gets married.
Ruprecht is speechless.
You read rightly …..
Wow, I thought I heard it all! “The dash don’t be silent.” LMAO
Gee, I hate to be all pedantic, but…shit, what a giant lie that was. I love to be all pedantic.
That don’t be a dash. That be a hyphen. That girl’s name be properly pronounced Lehyphena.
I got this the other day too. And to think I live just two parishes away from Livingston. That be the sticks, tho. LOL.
I have a Cekoy’e in my class….pronounced “Sequoia”
hahahahahahahahhahah….oh my…hahahhahahahah..whew…okay…well….I think I’m going to have to come back when I can stop laughing at that DUMBASS!
I’m definitely with Leehyphenah. They be just stoopid
Oh dear. And I thought I had it bad as “claud-hopper”, “dirt-claudia” and the like. Poor kid.
STUMBLED!
What do you expect from a mother who thinks “the dash don’t be silent” is proper english.
Poor kid.
This is just the logical but absurd conclusion of the “alternative spelling” trend. When my best friend was announced she was naming her son Jackson, she was inundated with suggestions of how to spell it. She ignored them and, oddly enough, spelled it Jackson.
I just don’t understand what people are thinking. Don’t they realize that this is going to make things harder for their kids? I’ve spent 31 years having my name misspelled. And it’s just LORI, FGS!
God, I live in Lingston Parish. I’m willing to bet this girl goes to either French Settlement or Walker schools.
Dumb name of the year award. I think the US may need to introduce a Name approval system like some of the countries in Europe. Either they choose a name of the ‘approved’ list (Basically the baby name book) or the name has to go through the approvals commitee. Anything that is obscene, undignified, or would expose the child to ridicule can be refused.
This reminds me of the woman in Missouri that named her twins while in the hospital. She read two names that she thought were perfect. Pronounced limongelo and orangelo… It turns out she was reading the MENU! Lemon Jello and Orange Jello!
I agree with nunsense – it obviously should be lehyphena…
Why did we pay so much to rebuild New Orleans? We are circling the drain faster and faster.
We have come so far since the civil war, right?
Fake and racist. Whee!
That reminds me of the woman in Alabama who named her son the first thing she saw when he was born… Nosmoking, and pronounced it “Nozmo King”.
YOU BEST BE JOKING NIGGER
Maybe we should just call her “forgotten” because with a parent like that, she’ll slip through the cracks and probably be living on the streets. Maybe Prince will take her in since her name is based on a symbol. Anyway, poor kid, ignorant parent and sad sad town in this sad sad sad country. Where does the stupidity end? At least she didn’t name her placenta (because it sounds so pretty).
Risking all, her boyfriend she kissed
On the skates her little *.
~ de dee, ~ de dah!
^cake
kometes
Re:Fake and racist. Whee!
Where do you get a race out of that? It said nothing about color.
White guilt maybe? IDK?
isn’t it leminusa?
i call bullshit
Well, I thought I seen and heard it all. Apparently, I was wrong.
Poor kid, why would a parent want to saddle their kid with such a crappy name.
Good call Sven….if its circulated by e mail its always bullshit.
Wow and I thought we had odd names in my family! Well I guess we just use names that are not used anymore but still my daughters middle name is hyphenated but we don’t say it “JenniferhyphenLee” or even “JenniferdashLee” but maybe I should think about that for my next kid LOL
haha this was a black person.
And I thought me saying “var-eye” for “vary” was bad enough.
….. and they wonder why we make fun of them ….
This sort of foolishness isn’t new.
I know a woman well into her 40’s, a “well bred white woman” for whatever that is worth, who is a department head at a hospital, who’s name is Darcy.
BUT GOD HELP YOU IF YOU PRONOUNCE IT DAR-SEE!!!
Its pronounce D R C.
This is just another twisted bend of the road where people try to impart some sort of uniqueness to their children and through ignorance or over-thinking, end up creating something tragically stupid.
wow, thats special
That is the most patently made-up and completely racist story I’ve heard in a long time. “Don’t be”? Come on.
Bumqueesha!
These names are not names. They are the product of mercury in the water :/
I live in Louisiana and I can say that sadly enough, these names are not fake.
Two words:
mandatory sterilization
By the way, 43, you must not live in the south. I hear “don’t be” on a regular basis. Tonight I was eating out and I heard a guy ask if someone had “took their testes yet”. (taken their test)
Yawn.
Yes, it’s racist. The blog author is a raaaaaaaaaaging racist. She hates Jews too.
Sheezus fuck. God forbid you people actually have something real to worry about.
OMFG! I said “you people”!
How is it racist? Did the author of this blog ever say what the races of the mother and daughter are?
Or did you just derive her race from ignorance, which would be actual racism?
People are very eager to believe this bullshit story, just like the old one about lemonjello and oranjello, the twins. “Them darkies sure aint a smart as we are for naming are kids Josh and Bethany hawhawhawhaw.” What a lightning-rod for crypto-racism. Dumb and offensive and a Rorschach test for jerks.
Food for thought…Names have been screwed up for decades. Forty years ago I worked in a plant and there was a woman whose name was Dorthy Theba Boone. (for real)
Years later I met a young lady whose legal name was Anita Lott.
My daughters name is Lea (pronounced Leah) and i find this totally amazing! I called my husband over to read this, it’s hilarious! I KNEW i should have spelled her name differently!