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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Eponyms #185214 06/08/2009 2:19 PM Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 16 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sparkle stranger Sparkle stranger Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 16 Toronto, Ontario, Canada How lovely that I opened today's e-mail to see that this week's theme is words based off of people's names. I completed this month's Kundalini Yoga teacher training last night, and we worked the entire weekend on Sound and Mantra, learning the words and the pronunciation, and the importance of them. On Saturday we sat in a sort of semi-circle and explained our names (many people have spiritual names, not myself though), and we talked about what our names meant and chanted on them. I felt humbled, as my name has never held much significance to me; I just thought of it as being named after someone (Carly Simon). After our exercise, I realized how much meaning is put into our names, and I look forward to finding the real meaning in my name as I continue on in this progress called life. Sat Nam. (Truth is my Name) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Eponyms Sparkle #185215 06/08/2009 4:08 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Quote: Self-improvement author Dale Carnegie once said, "A person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language." A rather bold statement. Welcome, Sparkle. You say you never thought much of your name, but I've known of enough people who even greatly dislike/d their given name. (I did) I learned to like it once I understood who I was named after. Personally I think it more important who you are named after than whatever is named after you. ( some disagrement with Anu's introduction) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Eponyms BranShea #185220 06/08/2009 5:38 PM Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 16 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sparkle stranger Sparkle stranger Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 16 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Thank you BranShea Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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