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From: bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: People's Names - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 17:36:12 EST
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	I had a Turkish classmate in graduate school, whose name was Zeki
	Tufekcioglu.  Literally translated, it means "Smart Son of a
	Gunsmith".

Since We have gone into foreign names now; I do have an amusing instance
of this.  When I was in School in Calcutta, we had a student by the
name of Khan in our class (as in Wrath of Khan).  Now in the language
in use by the residents of Calcutta (Bengali) , Khan - ki Chelle was
slang for "Son of a whore".  Unfortunately when mixing Bengali and Hindi
(The 'Official' language of India) Khan - ki Chelle could be interpreted
as "Son of Khan".  Well, you can guess what most of the Students called
this poor unfortunate.  After tolerating this for a year, he went to
court and had his name officially changed to something innocuous.

Kids can be so cruel.
-- 


				Binayak Banerjee
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