Please don’t name your daughters [name]Penelope[/name] because as beautiful as you might think it is I don’t think you want your daughter to have the word PENIS in her name because pene means penis in spanish
There, I had to say it
Please don’t name your child [name]Jesus[/name] because even though it’s pronounced Hay-ZUES in Spanish, in English everyone will just call him Jee-zus.
See how that doesn’t actually work?
@augusta_lee: I couldn’t agree with you more!
Yeah. You could probably find something wrong with every name if you stuck it into enough languages.
@augusta lee - Absolutely! Maybe if you’re Spanish, you mightn’t want to name your daughter [name]Penelope[/name], but, if you’re not, then so what? It’s a lovely name.
I’m not even talking about pronounciation, I’m talking about the meaning of a word in a name
See how that works?
But only a tiny part of it is penis in Spanish. There’s several other syllables after that.
I see what you’re saying, but it sounds a bit silly as the only reason not to use [name]Penelope[/name].
Lol that’s just silly.
I wouldn’t use [name]Penelope[/name] either, but mostly because you’d be surprised how wrongly people can pronounce it.
[name]Penelope[/name] [name]Cruz[/name] doesn’t seem to have any problems with her name.
She’s a millionaire do you really think she cares if her name has the word penis in it? And she was probably bullied enough throughout her life considering she’s from Spain
Probably motivated her to BECOME a millionaire.
Jeeze [name]Louise[/name], if this bothers you so much then don’t use it, but it clearly doesn’t bother anyone else.
Also, do you have a problem with penises? In my experience, penises aren’t all that negative of objects. In fact, they tend to be quite glorified.
There were 1,847 girls named [name]Penelope[/name] in 2011, and I’m sure their parents would have something to say about this. This argument (a word in Spanish, when we are mostly in English speaking countries and this is a Greek name) is completely ridiculous. It’s like saying “[name]Don[/name]'t use [name]Lana[/name] because its anal backwards.” It’s kind of childish, really.
[name]Virginia[/name] has the word virgin in it! It’s officially off limits forever now, sorry parents. Also, [name]Beatrice[/name]? Like…beat rice? Better stop using this one immediately too.
Oh my, too funny!! We can’t not use names just because they mean something else in other languages. The penis is actually a rather important part of the male body, people should stop being prudes.
Dang it. There goes [name]Lana[/name].
Ummm. Spanish speaker here. This is ridiculous. I didn’t even go there. [name]One[/name] of my very good friends is naming her daughter [name]Penelope[/name] and she’s as Latina as they come. I don’t like to be mean, but definite eye roll in this one.
[name]How[/name] ridiculous.
This is the dumbest post I have ever read:confused:
Wow! and I thought I over analyzed names… LOL! This is just funny!!! I speak fluent Spanish, and I have never, nor would I have ever thought of that…