Very much “incredulous teenager” vibes with the new (non-linguistics!) thread on people named Dakota.
“I don’t personally know anybody named Dakota therefore it can’t have ever been a popular name in the US” is such a succinct way to show off your know-it-all teenager cred that it almost couldn’t have been done better had he tried.
He’s only been here 8 years. So he was 6yo.
I find it hard to believe he’s never met someone named Dakota.
It may be where he lives.
Down here they’re a dime a dozen.
I’ve never met anyone named Dakota. I’ve seen some celebrities with that name, but never met any in person.
Miller!!
You’re old.
I’ve had a good dozen Dakotas in my classroom over the last few years, of both sexes.
So am I.
But I know some young people, and I also don’t know any Dakotas; though I’ve also heard, or seen, the name. However, I concluded quite a while ago that just about anything can be somebody’s name, and may even be a common one somewhere.
I meet people all the time who have never heard of my name, after all; and it’s quite common in some places.
Well, I have to admit that you’re the first Thorny I’ve heard of.
I’m willing to bet no one in the previous 50 years was named my 1st name. beck is my middle name. (Or a nick of it)
Unless, like me their parent wanted to pull a prank on them.
Not to mention your last name Dawrek.
Neither have I, not that I can recall.
I’m not young but my youngest daughter is 9. I volunteer at her school sometimes so I know her classmates. She also goes to a dance academy with well over a hundred young people. I can’t think of a single Dakota.
Only famous people, like Dakota Fanning or Johnson.
(I’ve never met them either.)
There’s also Dakota Hudson, a pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals.
Just to make sure I’m following, it’s suspected trolling to ask about people named Dakota in a dedicated thread, but it’s not trolling to list all the people we know named Dakota in the trolling thread?
Only kidding! But it is kind of amusing.
It’s thoroughly hi-jacked.
Holy crap, I had to drop out of that thread when they posted that utterly asinine pop culture “citation” about how the Filipino language is dying. It’s completely laughable to call a language “vulnerable” when it has millions of primary speakers and even more millions of secondary speakers.
You didn’t wonder about him when he declared Tagalog is a “bastardized version of Spanish”?
I don’t know any Dakotas but I know plenty of Carolinas. And a few Georgias.
That was my first time they impinged on my consciousness, so I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Now that I’m more familiar with their oeuvre, I’m less inclined to do so.
I sometimes greet people with Hawaii.
Hey, he pronounced Oregon correctly!