# My name has been changed from Jacquernagy to Lamoral **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072 "2018-06-30T22:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/1 "2018-06-30T22:29:49Z")
My name has now been changed. In case anyone was wondering where “Jacquernagy” came from, it came from a dream. I was walking past a beautiful park and the sign at the front of the park said “Jacquernagy Park.” As far as I know that name/word does not exist in real life, though Jacque is a name (usually with an S at the end) and Nagy is in fact a Hungarian surname. In any case, I’d rather use a name that’s less weird/confusing, so my name is now **Lamoral**. Thanks **Jonathan Chance** for affecting this change. FYI: I actually contemplated trying to talk him into letting me pull off a ridiculous Ship Of Theseus-style prank where I changed one letter of my name at a time every few months until it was an entirely different name, but thought the better of it. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/2 "2018-06-30T22:46:32Z")
Which letter would you have changed first? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/3 "2018-06-30T23:11:01Z")
What is the origin of Lamoral? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/4 "2018-06-30T23:13:56Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > What is the origin of Lamoral? In a dream of mine, it was a brand of shampoo. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/5 "2018-06-30T23:48:47Z")
French? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/6 "2018-07-01T00:01:11Z")
Looks to me like a [falindrome](https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/05/01/one-way-2/). ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/7 "2018-07-01T00:14:53Z")
“… **effecting** this change …” Criminey. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/8 "2018-07-01T01:22:12Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Looks to me like a [falindrome](https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/05/01/one-way-2/). Nice site, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/9 "2018-07-01T01:25:39Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > In a dream of mine, it was a brand of shampoo. Joke first: Shampoo brand in a dream? :eek: Wow product placement is getting really aggressive.😃 Serious second: Name change noted:)carry on:D:cool: ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/10 "2018-07-01T03:22:44Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Which letter would you have changed first? Having a name that starts with Lacquer would actually be kind of interesting. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/11 "2018-07-01T03:42:19Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > “… **effecting** this change …” > > Criminey. Technically, he could have done both. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/12 "2018-07-01T03:54:48Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > Nice site, thanks! FutilityCloset rocks! Especially notable as the competition — coughCecilAdamscough — just closed up shop an hour ago. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/13 "2018-07-01T04:42:20Z")
You can read in your dreams? This is unusual. I can’t do anything in my dreams, and nothing ever works. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/14 "2018-07-01T05:24:52Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > You can read in your dreams? This is unusual. I can’t do anything in my dreams, and nothing ever works. I read in my dreams as well. I’ve heard some say that you can’t read in your dreams, but I have no idea where that idea comes from. Most people I’ve talked to about dreams seem to be able to read fine. Now getting a phone to work properly or dialing a phone number or not getting a busy signal when I dial 911–that’s a skill I haven’t mastered in Dreamland. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/15 "2018-07-01T05:38:38Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > French? L’Amoral - “The Amoral One”. A good shampoo name? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/16 "2018-07-01T08:33:38Z")
I can read in my dreams, but if I look away the text changes when I look back. ETA: 500th post 1 year member this month. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/17 "2018-07-01T10:49:02Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > In any case, I’d rather use a name that’s less weird/confusing, so my name is now **Lamoral**. Oh. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/18 "2018-07-01T13:34:33Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > As far as I know that name/word does not exist in real life, though Jacque is a name (usually with an S at the end) and Nagy is in fact a Hungarian surname. Funny enough, that’s how I parsed the old name and pronounced it “ZHOCK-er-nawdge” in my head whenever I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/19 "2018-07-01T14:31:12Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > L’Amoral - “The Amoral One”. A good shampoo name? 🙂 Lamoral is, indeed, an actual name. I _don’t_ believe the proper translation for it is “the amoral one”, not unless you add an apostrophe that the name doesn’t actually have. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072/20 "2018-07-01T14:33:42Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > Lamoral is, indeed, an actual name. Do you work for Uber? > **[Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Anton,_Hereditary_Prince_of_Thurn_and_Taxis)** > > Maximilian Anton Lamoral, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (German: Maximilian Anton Lamoral Erbprinz von Thurn und Taxis; 28 September 1831 – 26 June 1867) was the Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis from birth until his death in 1867. > Maximilian was born on 28 September 1831 in Regensburg, Kingdom of Bavaria to Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of Thurn and Taxis and Baroness Wilhelmine of Dörnberg. > Maximilian married Duchess Helene in Bavaria, daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and... [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-has-been-changed-from-jacquernagy-to-lamoral/817072.md?page=2)