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28 May 2025, 10:41 am

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28 May 2025, 10:56 am

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28 May 2025, 2:49 pm

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Speaking of English names and learning new things about those, I'd also love to find out something about the name Percy.

Namely, what's actually wrong with this name? :roll: In practically every novel in which I encounter this name, there is something really wrong with its owner. Just look at this: Percy Wetmore - the cruel dude (and a coward at the same time) from "The Green Mile" and also Percy the mommy's boy from "The Long Walk" by Stephen King and another mommy's boy of this name (though he was an assassin) in one of the novels by Pratchett ("Pyramids, Pyramids") and of course, Percy Weasley who was certainly not the nicest among the whole team of the numerous Weasley brothers in "Harry Potter".

Was it just a coincidence that I encountered so many Percys like that or is there some... I don't know myself... maybe a stereotype concerning this name or what?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy


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28 May 2025, 3:46 pm

But it's just the list of famous men of this name, it doesn't explain if there is some stereotype concerning this name.


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28 May 2025, 4:06 pm

TIL The Textile Cone Snail, or Conus Textile, is a gastropod that lives in the sand under corals and rocks in the shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific region, Australia, and the Indian Ocean from Easter Africa to Hawaii and French Polynesia.

These marine snails have thick, heavy, and glossy shells that protect them from predators. This shell is made of calcium and covers the fleshy and soft body of the snail, covering its mantle(The soft protective layer found beneath the skin of Mollusca, sometimes reinforced by barnacles or calcified plates) and protecting its visceral mass, the defining traits of the Mollusca phylum.

However, a trait that sets the Cone Snail apart from its other gastropod brothers is its unique ability to shoot a hollow tooth called a Radula coated in venom that stuns, paralyzes, and kills its prey.

The Textile Cone Snail is also a molluscivore, meaning it eats other molluscs, and is known to eat other Textile Cone Snails if food is scarce.
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28 May 2025, 4:08 pm

Today I learnt that the bully at work is no longer going to be there after June. Maybe there is a god after all. :cheers:


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28 May 2025, 4:15 pm

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But it's just the list of famous men of this name, it doesn't explain if there is some stereotype concerning this name.


It explains the origin (prior to listing some famous examples). If there's a stereotype, it's probably because the name seems to be associated with upper-class berks.


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28 May 2025, 4:43 pm

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Today I learnt that the bully at work is no longer going to be there after June. Maybe there is a god after all. :cheers:


Yay! :D


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28 May 2025, 5:01 pm

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Irulan wrote:
But it's just the list of famous men of this name, it doesn't explain if there is some stereotype concerning this name.


It explains the origin (prior to listing some famous examples). If there's a stereotype, it's probably because the name seems to be associated with upper-class berks.


I guess Percy Jackson would be the main outlier here. Chaotic New Yorker who fought a God at twelve and won. :lol:

I'm so looking forward to season two of the TV show.

(Don't talk to me about the films)


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28 May 2025, 5:42 pm

I know the origin but at the same time I don't know with whom this name is associated to tell the truth - I'm not an English native speaker. I know only the name stereotypes from my own country - like for example, English names (especially those whose spelling got adapted to the Polish rules of spelling) are associated with the lower classes and mostly pathological families (like Jessica is pretensious enough but Dżesika - oh, this name is totally SUPERPRETENSIOUS, I can't think of any other names that would be so pretensious - but, oh, I just thought about some young man bullying an elderly man - quite a famous case here in Poland - his name was - yes - Bruklin which is our version of your Brooklyn).


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28 May 2025, 6:08 pm

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I know the origin but at the same time I don't know with whom this name is associated to tell the truth - I'm not an English native speaker. I know only the name stereotypes from my own country - like for example, English names (especially those whose spelling got adapted to the Polish rules of spelling) are associated with the lower classes and mostly pathological families (like Jessica is pretensious enough but Dżesika - oh, this name is totally SUPERPRETENSIOUS, I can't think of any other names that would be so pretensious - but, oh, I just thought about some young man bullying an elderly man - quite a famous case here in Poland - his name was - yes - Bruklin which is our version of your Brooklyn).


Interesting. I've never considered Jessica to be a pretentious name. It was a very common name where I grew up.


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28 May 2025, 6:21 pm

Irulan wrote:
I know the origin but at the same time I don't know with whom this name is associated to tell the truth - I'm not an English native speaker. I know only the name stereotypes from my own country - like for example, English names (especially those whose spelling got adapted to the Polish rules of spelling) are associated with the lower classes and mostly pathological families (like Jessica is pretensious enough but Dżesika - oh, this name is totally SUPERPRETENSIOUS, I can't think of any other names that would be so pretensious - but, oh, I just thought about some young man bullying an elderly man - quite a famous case here in Poland - his name was - yes - Bruklin which is our version of your Brooklyn).


I like that spelling Dżesika.

For what it's worth, I'm only assuming Percy is associated with the upper class due to it's Norman roots. I feel like if it was stereotyped here (Canada) it would be as a weak name, rather than a posh name.


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29 May 2025, 12:36 am

Little Shop of Horrors (The 80s movie) originally was supposed to end with Seymour and Audrey being devoured by the man-eating plant, who then takes over the world, but the test audience hated it so much they ended up giving the movie a lighter, happier ending.

Makes me wonder how all the *bad* movies out there managed to be released in public unchanged if they had a test audience to show it first.



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29 May 2025, 12:42 am

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Little Shop of Horrors (The 80s movie) originally was supposed to end with Seymour and Audrey being devoured by the man-eating plant, who then takes over the world, but the test audience hated it so much they ended up giving the movie a lighter, happier ending.

Makes me wonder how all the *bad* movies out there managed to be released in public unchanged if they had a test audience to show it first.


Makes one wonder if all movies get test audiences, as well as if some movies have such weak alternative endings they're forced to go with one or the other crappy ending because they don't know how to end that movie in a satisfying way.


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29 May 2025, 12:46 am

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Tamaya wrote:
Today I learnt that the bully at work is no longer going to be there after June. Maybe there is a god after all. :cheers:


Yay! :D


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29 May 2025, 3:38 am

Lost_dragon wrote:
Irulan wrote:
I know the origin but at the same time I don't know with whom this name is associated to tell the truth - I'm not an English native speaker. I know only the name stereotypes from my own country - like for example, English names (especially those whose spelling got adapted to the Polish rules of spelling) are associated with the lower classes and mostly pathological families (like Jessica is pretensious enough but Dżesika - oh, this name is totally SUPERPRETENSIOUS, I can't think of any other names that would be so pretensious - but, oh, I just thought about some young man bullying an elderly man - quite a famous case here in Poland - his name was - yes - Bruklin which is our version of your Brooklyn).


Interesting. I've never considered Jessica to be a pretentious name. It was a very common name where I grew up.


Here in Poland it is the most pretensious name I can think of. Its male equivalent is a Brajan - spelled like this, not Brian but Brajan. I read once about a boy of this name who kept being asked by his buddies: "Hey, Brajan, where is your Dżesika?" English names are veeeery pretensious in Poland, like you know, that a child's parents were snobs and Polish names weren't good enough for them.

A small tip concerning Polish names - ALL the names ending with -sław/sława are old folks' names. But for Przemysław, of course - it's the only exception. And Stanisław - but before this name got so supercommon in the youngest generation, it WAS an old man's typical name; if my uncle Stanisław was still alive, he would be in his 80's.


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