What’s in a name?
Names contain a great deal of history, including our own personal history. Does your name have a meaning? How do names come about, and what are the conventions of naming in other places? And what about names that are vocationally appropriate?
Daniel, Ben, and Kylie are taking names on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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It’s the Drinking Paradox: You shouldn’t trust someone who doesn’t drink. But you should trust Daniel and Kylie. Who don’t drink. How can this contradiction be resolved? Daniel just doesn’t drink because he doesn’t want to know what his drunk self is like.
We talk about Inside Out. (A lot.) There’s another way of finding ethnicity. And did you know there was a Midgley on the First Fleet?
It’s not easy naming a baby. We discuss strategies. One thing’s for sure: Daniel won’t be using the Russian or Somali conventions.
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Show notes
Facial expressions—including fear—may not be as universal as we thought
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/facial-expressions-including-fear-may-not-be-universal-we-thought
The fear gasping face as a threat display in a Melanesian society
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/10/12/1611622113
The 6th Inside Out Emotion That Got Cut From The Movie
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/6th-Inside-Out-Emotion-Got-Cut-From-Movie-72055.html
The Science of ‘Inside Out’
http://www.paulekman.com/facial-expressions/the-science-of-inside-out/
A Linguist Who Cracks the Code in Names to Predict Ethnicity
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/jobs/a-linguist-who-cracks-the-code-in-names-to-predict-ethnicity.html?_r=1
What’s in a Name? A Method for Extracting Information about Ethnicity from Names
http://pan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/03/06/pan.mpu038.full
Name Ethnicity Classifier
http://www.textmap.com/ethnicity/
Midgley Surname
https://www.houseofnames.com/midgley-family-crest
Last name: Midgley
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Midgley
SAMUEL MIDGLEY – First Fleeter
http://midgleywebpages.com/index-5.html
Given Name JACOB
http://www.behindthename.com/name/jacob
Why is Ἰάκωβος James and not Jacob?
https://billmounce.com/blog/why-ἰάκωβος-james-and-not-jacob
A Boy Named Humiliation: Some Wacky, Cruel, and Bizarre Puritan Names
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/09/13/puritan_names_lists_of_bizarre_religious_nomenclature_used_by_puritans.html
A great GIF of the most popular girl’s name in all 50 US states
http://static.businessinsider.com/image/526419676bb3f7ac6e0a2913/image.jpg
Wikipedia: Jill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill
The Origins of 10 Nicknames
http://mentalfloss.com/article/24761/origins-10-nicknames
A Guide to People’s Names in Bali
http://www.inbali.org/peoples-names-in-bali/
7 Naming Customs From Around the World
http://blog.tesol.org/7-naming-customs-from-around-the-world/
Mr Born Naked, meet Mrs Small Poops
https://www.rnw.org/archive/mr-born-naked-meet-mrs-small-poops
How The Dutch Got Their Funny Names
http://baheyeldin.com/writings/culture/how-the-dutch-got-their-funny-names.html
Urban Legend alert: People’s names were not changed at Ellis Island arbitrarily.
Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was)
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/07/02/name-changes-ellis-island
What is an Aptonym?
https://aptonyms-wiki.wikispaces.com
Wayne Schmuck, Used-Car Distributor
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2006/05/wayne_schmuck_usedcar_distributor.single.html
Bernard Salt: Moralisers, we need you!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/moralisers-we-need-you/news-story/6bdb24f77572be68330bd306c14ee8a3
Millennials react to Bernard Salt’s attack on smashed avo
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/columnists/bernard-salt/millenials-react-to-bernard-salts-attack-on-smashed-avo/news-story/a0e8473f9e80663d7569364930aa0321
Are millennials actually bad at saving or are houses just unaffordable?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2016/oct/18/are-millennials-actually-bad-at-saving-or-are-houses-just-unaffordable
Smashed avocado discounted in cafes in wake of controversial saving advice for millennials
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-19/smashed-avocado-australian-cafes-offering-discounts/7945014
It’s not avocado on toast that’s keeping me out of the housing market
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/its-not-avocado-on-toast-thats-keeping-me-out-of-the-housing-market-20161018-gs4uuo.html
How I, A Millennial, Afforded A Deposit On My Own Home
http://goodbadwugly.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/how-i-millennial-afforded-deposit-on-my.html
The ‘gig economy’ is coming. What will it mean for work?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/26/will-we-get-by-gig-economy
Gig economy workers at Uber and Lyft aren’t happy, survey finds
http://mashable.com/2015/05/20/on-demand-study/
Wikipedia: Wendy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy
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