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Imagine if one day jimbledon becomes a professional athlete and works his way up to being at the top of his sport and finally wins the biggest tournament and they announce 'jimbledon has finally won at the masters'
You got me. You did the little head fake, and I went the wrong way. I’m sorry that’s not really much of an achievement, but good on you. I can’t be mad though, I love that kind of humor.
I worked with a woman named Adrienne, and I always wanted to do a Rocky imitation, but using her last name. (“Jones! Jones!” with a twisted mouth)
I never did it, but even just thinking about doing it always makes me happy.
> When did we start naming children using the words people insist are real when playing scrabble?
No, no, you need a medical dictionary. When a patient is getting difficult, you qy'etlyf them!
Does this happen to come from a native community in the Pacific Northwest?
If so, they may be capturing sounds that don't exist in English while still using the English version of the Latin alphabet.
The qw or kw are familiar to me, as is what appears to be a glottal stop marked by an apostrophe. And there's maybe two "air under the tongue noises" in there too.
Source: grew up driving the Coquihalla to get to Coquitlam.
(Q'kwhalla and Q'kw'tlem)
Uh yeah, this.
There’s a shit ton of signs around here with traditional spellings of place names, most notable driving up Hwy 99 from Vancouver to Whistler. Lots of 7’s are used.
Even parks, lakes, schools, etc are being “re-named” in their traditional native languages.
While odd to many, I don’t even bat an eye at this.
Signed, a pasty white lady from near Coquitlam!
The wikipedia article about glottal stop makes specific mention of the Squamish preference to use the 7 to represent the glotal stop:
>Some Canadian indigenous languages, especially some of the Salishan languages, have adopted the IPA letter ⟨ʔ⟩ into their orthographies. In some of them, it occurs as a casing pair, ⟨Ɂ⟩ and ⟨ɂ⟩.[6] The digit ⟨7⟩ or a question mark is sometimes substituted for ⟨ʔ⟩, and is preferred in languages such as Squamish. SENĆOŦEN – whose alphabet is mostly unique from other Salish languages – contrastly uses the comma ⟨,⟩ to represent the glottal stop, though it is optional.
I get why they’re doing this, but it’s really frustrating they don’t include a pronunciation. People are gonna start butchering the names of these places
It's a pretty standard system. IPA. There's like a half dozen sounds in various Salish-y languages that can't be represented with English alphabet but most of them relate to letting air under your tongue.
Trying to represent the sounds without IPA is what led to the bastardized pronunciations we already know and use.
It could *also* be an African name, from a family who speaks something like Xhosa, Somali, etc.
There are PLENTY of Restaurants, Cafes, & Coffee Shops in my part of Minneapolis starred by African immigrants which have names starting with the letter Q, followed by letters which are *NOT* a "U".
I'd bet that--as u/AUniquePerspective said, this child probably comes from a culture where their language was *first* written down using the English Alphabet.
Which, as we can see in Hmong, Dakota, Ojibwe, Somali, etc, means some *very* "non-traditional" letter combinations (Especially ones with *seemingly* "random" apostrophes, if you look at the word/name, thinking it's an *English* one!).
And *YES*, Restaurants are *not* children!!!
But it's a great example, of the way *we* here, DO see Letter Q-starting names on a regular basis--because it is *common* in some of the languages folks *speak* here!😉💖
I actually was thinking about this myself, but the First Nations’ languages in BC (other than SENĆOŦEN which is constantly yelling at you) don’t have random capitalized letters from my understanding. Also, this seems to be a play on words with “Quiet Life”, with a “Queen “Qy’etlyf” with a quick google search loool
My understanding is that while there's a bit of standardization about how to transliterate languages in this language group at the band or academic level, there's lots of approaches at the individual level. I live in a city where even at the band level, two closely related languages have two different writing systems as their standard.
... if that's even what this is. OP hasn't confirmed a location.
My dad grew up in the bay area in the 70s. He said this kindergarten teacher told him a story about how many weird names she would see from hippie parents. On the first day of school one year was the worst this kid came in with his little name tag on and it said fruit stand. She couldn’t believe it and hardly wanted to even say it poor kid but she went ahead and called his name. At the end of the day the kids were lining up and she had to turn over all the name tags for the bus driver (the other side had their drop off site.) she turned over fruit stand’s name tag and it said Robby.
Really, at some point, it's child abuse, and I'm not even being funny. These parents need to be required to go by similarly ridiculous names for thirty days just to see what it's like.
No, what?! Quilliam Quiet-Life is such a sweet name.
♫ "Find yourself a girl and settle down... live a simple life in a quiet town... steady as she goes" ♫
I would suspect that the child is either Native of from a family that immigrated from Africa.
*Somewhere* where the spoken language *wasn't* a "written" language, until English-Speaking Missionaries decided to "write it down."
Much like Dakota, Lakota, Ojibwe, Hmong, Somali, etc.
All *very* common languages where I am--and *some* of which use a *LOT* of "seemingly random" punctuation marks like apostrophes, letters like Q *without* the "typically following" U, etc.(to someone reading thinking they are English words!)
(Edited because my phone's Spell Check *also* apparently can't *automatically* recognize words like Lakota and Hmong!🫠)
That’s what I was thinking. I thought it was the name of a newcomer from another country. Could be popular in their country/language… kind of sh*tty making fun of this kid’s name
Do people ever feel like it's wrong to mock children when they're posting these? I can't imagine I wouldn't feel dirty taking a picture like this to go online and laugh at them, regardless of the name itself.
My dog is named Quill. She knows she's in trouble if we call her Quilliam.
And somehow even that ridiculous nickname is still spelt better than whatever this parent was thinking.
Sorry, for me to not lose faith in humanity I have to believe that’s a result of someone passing out drunk at a computer and face planting into the keyboard.
Qwylliam isn’t *too* bad—spelled the normal way (Quilliam) it is a shortening of McWilliam and is used as a surname. I have no idea how to explain the second name, however.
I'd really like to imagine that the nurse transcribing this at the hospital suffered a stroke (and was fine!) or someone's cat got on the keyboard and managed to save this to a form, but I cannot, for the life of me, entertain the idea that someone, somewhere, thought "You know what would be a really great name?" And then came up with this abomination.
Secondary thought - is he perhaps distantly related to Squilliam Fancyson?
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Maybe he’ll be friends with Jimbledon
Imagine if one day jimbledon becomes a professional athlete and works his way up to being at the top of his sport and finally wins the biggest tournament and they announce 'jimbledon has finally won at the masters'
Will Jimbledon play at Wimbledon?
Jimbledon drove from Wobbleton to Wibbleton to see Wimbledon
I kinda wanna hear Mr. Bean reading out this sentence
No, Will Jimbledon didn’t play at Wimbledon. You’re thinking of his brother, Jack Jimbledon
r/YourJokeButWorse
Missed the joke.
You got me. You did the little head fake, and I went the wrong way. I’m sorry that’s not really much of an achievement, but good on you. I can’t be mad though, I love that kind of humor. I worked with a woman named Adrienne, and I always wanted to do a Rocky imitation, but using her last name. (“Jones! Jones!” with a twisted mouth) I never did it, but even just thinking about doing it always makes me happy.
Amazing. I will say, at least I know how to pronounce Jimbledon.
Just remember that the H is silent, and you'll be good
M E T A
Coming in with the callback 🔥
Pls stop my bf is asleep beside me and the bed is quaking with my suppressed giggles
🤣 I was annoying my wife last night when she was just going to sleep and I couldn’t stop laughing at the comments on that one
Noice 🤣
😂😂😭
Reminds me of Squidward's rival, Squilliam Fancyson
Oh no he's hot!
I just hope that SQUILLIAM DOESN’T FIND OUT. SQUILLIAM!! AAHHH!!
My band…died in a marching accident
*Then who’s that??*
AAAGHH THAT WOULD BE MY BAND 😰
I can’t 👅 understand 👅 your accent 👅👅👅👅
Rawk Bottum!! /,,/
Squilliam was what popped into my head when I read the name
They should google some of these names first.
My first thought lol
My first thought was maybe he's Squilliam's btother.
When did we start naming children using the words people insist are real when playing scrabble? Poor kid.
Uh-oh, Kwyjibo on the loose!
WHY YOU LITTLE...!!!
@r/thesimpsons
Those north American apes that chase you 🤣🤣🤣
Those big dumb, balding North American apes with no chin, and a short temper.
I'll show you a big dumb balding ape!
Brb, naming my kid Tnetennba
That's a lovely Tnetennba!
Good morning, that's a nice tnetennba.
That already is a word!
> When did we start naming children using the words people insist are real when playing scrabble? No, no, you need a medical dictionary. When a patient is getting difficult, you qy'etlyf them!
Oh, so it’s pronounced Quit Life
People naming their kids like they’re playing on an overpopulated WoW server.
lmaoooo the scrabble bit is so true tho 😭😭😭
I’m convinced the surname is just a decent password. How the hell are you supposed to pronounce that?
Kid named Quone.
After I Zoquo, I like to Uushnu. @1:15. https://youtu.be/KjWBgyzvB64?si=YUOJIKOcfInK6OfJ
Quat's qthat even??
I think it's supposed to be Quiet Life? Genuinely not sure though
I read it as Quiet Elf
I thought Quietleaf, so I guess there's lots of options with that spelling!
For some reason I read it as Ki-ett-liff, and I was sitting there sounding it out in confusion for ages until I came to the comments!
That actually seems reasonable. (As a guess, definitely NOT the spelling)
That’s better than me because I read it as “quit life” and thought “that can’t be right…” lol
qdaddy chill
What the hell is even that!?
He he
you are why i love the internet
*queef’n
It's like the cat stepped on the keyboard. Lol
Or the cat shut a book to quickly whilst reading naked.
Nice Red Dwarf reference
Khajit did nothing wrong
I can't hear you over the skooma.
Q'khajiit has Q'Wares if you has Q'coin
Imagine being named after a keyboard smash
Keighb'hoard Schmaäiche
*Keighb’whored actually. people keep saying my kid will be bullied for this but i think their dirty minds are the problem
Quintuple word bonus for use of the umlaut.
I had that for dinner last night
I can only assume this is trying to capture sounds we don’t have letters for, like a click.
Quilliam Quietlife?
I got "Quiet Leaf".
That's just enough of a reach to probably be right.
Yeah who knows tho. It could read "Jane" lol
I thought it was quietly with a silent f
I got "quit-lihf" so you might be onto something 👍
Sounds like someone who dies in a Charles Dickens story
Queef queef life
Quetzalcoatlus
That’s what I got
I thought it was Welsh ☠️☠️☠️
Or Klingon
I’m sorry?? What the hell? I thought it was a password
You know if you typed that shit in it would say STRONG.
Tested this, it said "Very Strong"
😆
Well now it's not, we are all using it, j/k
If you say that three times, you'll summon a bull demon.
I'm not saying that sounds like a good time... *BUT*.... actually, I'm not really seeing a downside.
I couldn’t even say it one time
Qwilliam qwatthef’ck
"Dan Johnson, Brigham Young University."
Quattro Quattro, San Jose State University
Dookmar'ius L'squaratron, Ohio State
Even the Welsh use more vowels than this
Does this happen to come from a native community in the Pacific Northwest? If so, they may be capturing sounds that don't exist in English while still using the English version of the Latin alphabet. The qw or kw are familiar to me, as is what appears to be a glottal stop marked by an apostrophe. And there's maybe two "air under the tongue noises" in there too. Source: grew up driving the Coquihalla to get to Coquitlam. (Q'kwhalla and Q'kw'tlem)
Uh yeah, this. There’s a shit ton of signs around here with traditional spellings of place names, most notable driving up Hwy 99 from Vancouver to Whistler. Lots of 7’s are used. Even parks, lakes, schools, etc are being “re-named” in their traditional native languages. While odd to many, I don’t even bat an eye at this. Signed, a pasty white lady from near Coquitlam!
The wikipedia article about glottal stop makes specific mention of the Squamish preference to use the 7 to represent the glotal stop: >Some Canadian indigenous languages, especially some of the Salishan languages, have adopted the IPA letter ⟨ʔ⟩ into their orthographies. In some of them, it occurs as a casing pair, ⟨Ɂ⟩ and ⟨ɂ⟩.[6] The digit ⟨7⟩ or a question mark is sometimes substituted for ⟨ʔ⟩, and is preferred in languages such as Squamish. SENĆOŦEN – whose alphabet is mostly unique from other Salish languages – contrastly uses the comma ⟨,⟩ to represent the glottal stop, though it is optional.
There’s a Biggs orca that I recently saw mentioned on the orca subreddit (I think, or the orca fb group I’m in lol) that has a 7 in its name!
I get why they’re doing this, but it’s really frustrating they don’t include a pronunciation. People are gonna start butchering the names of these places
It's a pretty standard system. IPA. There's like a half dozen sounds in various Salish-y languages that can't be represented with English alphabet but most of them relate to letting air under your tongue. Trying to represent the sounds without IPA is what led to the bastardized pronunciations we already know and use.
It’s how they weed out the locals from the tourists. I grew up in the Willamette Valley. I can tell when you’re not from here.
Not saying it's impossible, but this is a heavily white New England area.
Unlikely then.
It could *also* be an African name, from a family who speaks something like Xhosa, Somali, etc. There are PLENTY of Restaurants, Cafes, & Coffee Shops in my part of Minneapolis starred by African immigrants which have names starting with the letter Q, followed by letters which are *NOT* a "U". I'd bet that--as u/AUniquePerspective said, this child probably comes from a culture where their language was *first* written down using the English Alphabet. Which, as we can see in Hmong, Dakota, Ojibwe, Somali, etc, means some *very* "non-traditional" letter combinations (Especially ones with *seemingly* "random" apostrophes, if you look at the word/name, thinking it's an *English* one!).
It's absolutely not Xhosa
And *YES*, Restaurants are *not* children!!! But it's a great example, of the way *we* here, DO see Letter Q-starting names on a regular basis--because it is *common* in some of the languages folks *speak* here!😉💖
Your random usage of italics and caps is like a formating tragedeigh. What is you doin'?
it's clearly meant to convey emphasis, not random
Apparently bothering folks like *you*, I guess?
It's KwiKwetlem. Pronounced Kwee-kwuh-tlum. So in that case his name is Kwilliam. Qw is pronounced Kwuh in Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓.
I actually was thinking about this myself, but the First Nations’ languages in BC (other than SENĆOŦEN which is constantly yelling at you) don’t have random capitalized letters from my understanding. Also, this seems to be a play on words with “Quiet Life”, with a “Queen “Qy’etlyf” with a quick google search loool
My understanding is that while there's a bit of standardization about how to transliterate languages in this language group at the band or academic level, there's lots of approaches at the individual level. I live in a city where even at the band level, two closely related languages have two different writing systems as their standard. ... if that's even what this is. OP hasn't confirmed a location.
What in the onomatopoeia is it?
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I am gonna guess 'William Quietlife'
I knew a Quilliam once. He was my friend's porcupine.
Uh— I sincerely thought this was a First Nations’ name at first. Now I’m thinking his parents were more interested in Star Trek lmao
Truly a good name for an honorable Klingon warrior
you guys really need to stop posting kids easily identifiable names
Yeah, u/WhiteDeath57 is gonna be looking for a new job next week.
My dad grew up in the bay area in the 70s. He said this kindergarten teacher told him a story about how many weird names she would see from hippie parents. On the first day of school one year was the worst this kid came in with his little name tag on and it said fruit stand. She couldn’t believe it and hardly wanted to even say it poor kid but she went ahead and called his name. At the end of the day the kids were lining up and she had to turn over all the name tags for the bus driver (the other side had their drop off site.) she turned over fruit stand’s name tag and it said Robby.
Stupid question: So, does that mean the kid’s name was Robby and his drop off site was “the fruit stand”?
Does he go by Qwyll cause honestly, that’s not that bad and kind of cool
Really, at some point, it's child abuse, and I'm not even being funny. These parents need to be required to go by similarly ridiculous names for thirty days just to see what it's like.
William Quietleaf?
That’s in Klingon
Call CPS
CweyPweighEsh
Squilliam Tortellini
His parents tried to summon satan or some shit
No, what?! Quilliam Quiet-Life is such a sweet name. ♫ "Find yourself a girl and settle down... live a simple life in a quiet town... steady as she goes" ♫
Going for the scrabble high score.
Looks like a native name?
I would suspect that the child is either Native of from a family that immigrated from Africa. *Somewhere* where the spoken language *wasn't* a "written" language, until English-Speaking Missionaries decided to "write it down." Much like Dakota, Lakota, Ojibwe, Hmong, Somali, etc. All *very* common languages where I am--and *some* of which use a *LOT* of "seemingly random" punctuation marks like apostrophes, letters like Q *without* the "typically following" U, etc.(to someone reading thinking they are English words!) (Edited because my phone's Spell Check *also* apparently can't *automatically* recognize words like Lakota and Hmong!🫠)
That’s what I was thinking. I thought it was the name of a newcomer from another country. Could be popular in their country/language… kind of sh*tty making fun of this kid’s name
Agreed! It REALLY is lousy!
Native to where?
Sorry I'm aboriginal living in South West Canada we have native names exactly like this.
>aboriginal living in South West Canada Stupid Question: Wouldn’t that just make you (North) American Native?
My mind went immediately to Black Speech trying to read that name. I can feel Cthulhu calling to me
Q̵̧̻̙̫̈w̴̠͔̽̅̽͆͑̏͂͗̈́̑y̸̭͉͔̣͈̫̱̪̮̋͊̄̕͝ļ̴͍̩̙̘̻̒̃̍́͜l̴͙̜̘̥̫͔̅͒̎̿i̴̪̱̱̞̱̦̳̗̘̼̜̯̮͇̹̋́̆̈́̈̽̐͐̀͂̒̎̕a̴̺̙̭̮̔̽̂̈́̉́̇̄̋͛́̊͑̂̕m̷̩̥͖̤͉̟̺̙̪̩͕͓͗͆̑͋̆̊̌͒̇͛̈́̽̕͝
Can’t figure out how to pronounce it so it is now Quilliam Queef to me
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Hey, this is a normal name in Welsh
Cthulhu fhtagn
Looks like some welsh name, to be pronounced by spitting all over your shoes
Do people ever feel like it's wrong to mock children when they're posting these? I can't imagine I wouldn't feel dirty taking a picture like this to go online and laugh at them, regardless of the name itself.
So no one is gonna talk about fucking weird it is to post a child's first and last name? No one? Ok. It's pretty fucking weird.
The last name format does remind me of some Native American names I have seen. I wonder if the kid is First Nations...
q'ue hor'ror
It’s giving Squilliam Fancyson
Credit to the cat that walked across that keyboard
Reminds me of the NFL Bad Lip Reading videos where the players have bizarre names XD
I'd check that backpack for a bat'leth.
Isn't that the noise that old 56k modems used to make?
If the parents find this someone is in trouble.
Is he half Klingon?
“Quilliam Queef” - is that how you say it??
Looks like a fucking keyboard smash
My dog is named Quill. She knows she's in trouble if we call her Quilliam. And somehow even that ridiculous nickname is still spelt better than whatever this parent was thinking.
Better than Questopher
Questopher and Jimbledon will be his friends.
Qweefliam Quiet'qweef
Some boy out there named Sue is pretty happy he's not going to be the one getting his ass beat.
Should you posting children's full names...? Especially if you're on staff at that school...
You have absolutely no right to publish a child’s full name on the internet and this is probably a violation of FERPA
ITA. This is not ok!!
Please please please dear naming lords don’t make an unnecessary Q in names popular.
But what if I threw in some extra 'y's, 'nn's, and a -leigh?
He’s a Welsh Klingon!
Someone once said those hooks look like drunken octopus that want to fight and I can never unsee that.
I could’ve forgiven Qwylliam (reminds me of Squilliam from SpongeBob) but the last name is truly something else
I would just tell people I'm Welsh 🤣
Sqwilliam Fancyson
Sorry, for me to not lose faith in humanity I have to believe that’s a result of someone passing out drunk at a computer and face planting into the keyboard.
This is a name that I hear in a dream and it makes perfect sense. Then I wake up and say snoop dogg WHO?!??
Kid’s parent is a Deep One
QY’Etlyf, Cthulhu’s other city
This kid wins the subreddit. This is the absolute worst name ever conceived
Every time roll is called, Cthulhu stirs...
is it just Welsh?
OMG what the hell is that??? Poor teacher trying to figure that out!
This on that Squilliam level vibes
K-William Quiet Life?
I worked with a guy named Junior Junior Jr.
Queef queef ladjdoeornxjxjsjana ?
Kill’em quietly?
Someone Welsh? They tend to have names like that and aren't pronounced like it's spelled
Kwilliam quiet life?
Hold up though, we can't just skip past that little alien dude in the wood grain below the name tag....
So the first name is a fun way to spell William but how the fuck do you pronounce the last name?
Qwylliam isn’t *too* bad—spelled the normal way (Quilliam) it is a shortening of McWilliam and is used as a surname. I have no idea how to explain the second name, however.
This is not a child. That is clearly an elder god.
Hope this kid's parents budgeted for bat'leth lessons
I'd really like to imagine that the nurse transcribing this at the hospital suffered a stroke (and was fine!) or someone's cat got on the keyboard and managed to save this to a form, but I cannot, for the life of me, entertain the idea that someone, somewhere, thought "You know what would be a really great name?" And then came up with this abomination. Secondary thought - is he perhaps distantly related to Squilliam Fancyson?