This.
Want to do a thread about ‘weird nicknames for pets’? Fine. This one comes off as a thread that says ‘American Indians have weird names, har de har.’ And on top of that the examples given are all derogatory.
[ETA: edited to use the same term the OP did.]
Agreed.
How about " Names… what do they mean in various languages?"
Mary and Marie…
Jesus.
Christ.
All have meanings just beyond saying them.
This thread is reminding me of the punchline “Why do you ask, …?”
Okay, I’ll bite. What’s the joke?
The joke varies, but the punchline stays the same. I googled the punchline and have copied one example for your edification.
The young Indian boy had spent most of his life in a quandry. He felt different yet he couldn’t figure why he was so depressed. He went to the Chief.
He asked the chief how his brother Red Deer Running had gotten his name.
The chief answered in his typically poetic way.
"When Red Deer Running was born, at the moment of his birth, the first thing his mother saw was a beautiful deer running off into the forest, and so Red Deer Running he was named. It is the custom of our tribe to name the offspring according to the spirits in nature visiting upon the birth.
The boy then asked “How did my sister Thundering Bird get her name?”
The chief described again, how at the moment of her birth Thundering Bird’s mother had heard a roar of thunder and looking up, saw a bird flying in the sky.
The boy asked yet again, how his cousin White Crouching Bear had been given such a name. The chief, looking down once more at the boy, explainined “At the moment of her child’s birth White Crouching Bear’s mother saw a white bear crouched over a stream.
But tell me - Why do you ask, Two Dogs Fucking?”
I did work on a court case that emanated out of an Indian Reservation in Montana; most of the people involved (including investigating law enforcement) were native Americans, and some had quite memorable names (e.g. the court reporter’s last name was “Not Help Him”). My favorite, though, was an investigator whose last name was “Afraid of Bear”. I figure that there’s some family legacy behind that name, and not necessarily a proud one.
It’s better than “Names for pet American Indians”…
That will work.
"This sounds like “How can we tie “Native American indigenous people” and “stupid pet names” together and get away with it”?
The idea itself is wrong no matter how you rephrase it.
How about just “stupid pet names”?
Since we are just fussing with each other, perhaps we should just lock it.