Our Internet at home had been playing up and after being on the phone to the phone/internet/tv company we thought we would need yet another box (we've had some issues with them) but all is fixed now so hopefully things will remain this way...
So, now I guess its back to emails, Facebook and researching my genealogy. My second cousin has gotten me interested in researching my family history after I began getting caught up in her Facebook status comments about her research. She has researched quite a bit of my mother's maternal line which we have in common. I hate to admit it, but it appears I am part Westy Bogan, part English and part good old Aussie. My mother's line all lived out near Windsor, the very area where I worked last year and always made fun of to the locals. For shame!
I won't tell my roomates though. Of the few Aussie things we have taught them, one is the phrases is 'Westy Bogan' to which one of them uses every now and then. I have started to pick up some of the South African sayings too. One started as a mocking sort of exercise but is now becoming more common place. In Australia, if we were going to see someone in a little while, typically we would say, "See you later" (well I would). They say "See you just now" which makes no sense at all because you aren't going to see them for a while. If you are going to see someone right away they say, "See you now now". Weird hey? But I must admit, I am starting to like South Africans. They are the most like us without being Australian - although most either move to here or Sydney or Perth to flee from South Africa.
Anyway, Matt is also getting hooked on researching his family history after looking up a few things on the NSW Birth Deaths and Marriages site. Its funny, his family have an obsession with passing family names through the generations so much so that his grandfather had the exact first and middle name as his great grandfather. In my family that is kind of a foreign concept and one that hasn't really happened most likely because the names aren't very nice! If my family did pass down names, I probably could have been named Thea Constance or Thea Euphemia. EW! What kind of a name is Euphemia?!
Matt is set on the idea that middle names should be "of family significance". He thinks your middle name should be significant or you shouldn't have one. I think that they are just an alternate name to have, which can be a relatives name but doesn't have to be. What do you think? What is the point of a middle name? Is it to discern between the 3 John Smiths on a university tutorial list or does it have to have family significance?
So, now I guess its back to emails, Facebook and researching my genealogy. My second cousin has gotten me interested in researching my family history after I began getting caught up in her Facebook status comments about her research. She has researched quite a bit of my mother's maternal line which we have in common. I hate to admit it, but it appears I am part Westy Bogan, part English and part good old Aussie. My mother's line all lived out near Windsor, the very area where I worked last year and always made fun of to the locals. For shame!
I won't tell my roomates though. Of the few Aussie things we have taught them, one is the phrases is 'Westy Bogan' to which one of them uses every now and then. I have started to pick up some of the South African sayings too. One started as a mocking sort of exercise but is now becoming more common place. In Australia, if we were going to see someone in a little while, typically we would say, "See you later" (well I would). They say "See you just now" which makes no sense at all because you aren't going to see them for a while. If you are going to see someone right away they say, "See you now now". Weird hey? But I must admit, I am starting to like South Africans. They are the most like us without being Australian - although most either move to here or Sydney or Perth to flee from South Africa.
Anyway, Matt is also getting hooked on researching his family history after looking up a few things on the NSW Birth Deaths and Marriages site. Its funny, his family have an obsession with passing family names through the generations so much so that his grandfather had the exact first and middle name as his great grandfather. In my family that is kind of a foreign concept and one that hasn't really happened most likely because the names aren't very nice! If my family did pass down names, I probably could have been named Thea Constance or Thea Euphemia. EW! What kind of a name is Euphemia?!
Matt is set on the idea that middle names should be "of family significance". He thinks your middle name should be significant or you shouldn't have one. I think that they are just an alternate name to have, which can be a relatives name but doesn't have to be. What do you think? What is the point of a middle name? Is it to discern between the 3 John Smiths on a university tutorial list or does it have to have family significance?
3 comments:
They should be significant and that can be because the person naming the child likes the name or it has a bit of history to it (eg family ties). My middle names are James and Chapman. James is my Dad's name and Chapman is a family name that used to be given to the eldest Toose son in each family but when my folks had more boys we all got it. Most of the chicks in my family (even the imports) have Elizabeth as a middle name so we're thinking we've got middle names covered with Chapman and Elizabeth.
I think names are significant so meanings should be considered. Family ties are nice, but not necessary I think. We did it though and are very glad we did.
second names are very important - how else does a child know he is in trouble eg. "MATTHEW ROBERT come here NOW"
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