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Originally Posted by the_marq
I think it's Germany that has actual laws in place to prevent you from giving your kid a name that would lead to ridicule.
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Yep, the name must indicate the gender of the child (no naming you son Linda) and the name must not lead to ridicule your child. The registrar has the last word. But I got the feeling that tose rules are weakend lately, I've seen names like "amidala" (and much worse, amidala is quite OK)and other fictious names that would not have been acceptable some years ago. A german Actress is named "Cosma Shiva"
and you should think of how the name is pronounced.
"Chantal" might be a beautiful french name, but pronounced in hard german it sounds weird.
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Last edited by Pacifier; 03-09-2005 at 02:19 PM..
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