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Location: McLean, VA, USA
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Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:06 pm
I did. And I know many people do, and they get very creative in this. I’m probably just less creative by nature, so names of my cars mostly resembled their makes without much of a deviation.
My first car, which was 84’ civic, was dubbed “Hon’ka” – something like honny, feminine form. My former wife’s first car did not follow the suit and was called “Maika”, which is Russian female name, friendly version of “Maya” (has nothing to do with Maya civilization, btw) . This was after the month we bought it in – May. Her second car, which eventually became mine after the divorce, was named “Basya”, being one of the possible short names for “Mitsubishi” and, again, Russian female short name, too.
Interestingly enough, I stopped giving names to my cars when I moved to US. Don’t know why, probably because my first car here was Honda, too, and “Hon’ka” was already taken by my first Honda, which I still owned at that time…
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My wife's first car was named Zule after a bad fridge demon in Ghost Busters. I never named a car. Come to think of it.. I've never named an object. My pets however, always get official names that I never use. For instance my 'special needs' cat is named Melville but is only ever refered to as Monkey. The other cat's name is Hydrox and I can't write his nickname
Joined: Aug 02, 2006
Posts: 705
Location: McLean, VA, USA
Posted:
Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:10 pm
Hey, don't by shy and give it a name then
What's interesting, though - I always call my cars "it", while many English speaking people call their cars "she" - this looks sort of controversial to me, I mean both naming a car and calling she "it", and not naming it and calling it "she" People are paradoxical by nature I guess
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. This was after the month we bought it in – May. Her second car, which eventually became mine after the divorce, was named “Basya”, being one of the possible short names for “Mitsubishi” and, again, Russian female short name, too.
