a pointless exercise in horrifying myself

[roga]

For some inexplicable reason I googled the name "Gerard" in Hebrew, and immediately flinched at how absolutely horrible the name looked spelled in Hebrew, and then I figured that since it was Halloween and all, why don't I just continue to horrify myself by spelling other Bandom people names in Hebrew

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[marag]

Oooh, you'd be a good person to ask. Someone on my flist is working on a fic and (don't ask why, because I don't remember) needs to know what a nickname for Ze'ev would be.

That is, I knew the name Ze'ev means wolf, but I don't know what kind of nickname would be casually given to someone with that name. I took a wild stab at Evka because my MIL likes to add "ka" to make a nickname, but not only does Evka look dorky in English, it doesn't sound right.

So, any thoughts for a fellow ficcer in need? :D

[roga]

Hee, well -- it also depends on where they're from and how old they are, and there's always a difference between naming trends in Israel and abroad. An older generation (like, the generation born in or raised by parents born in Europe) might call him Wolf or Farkash (which means wolf in Hungarian), but the generally common nickname for Ze'ev is Zevik. But that's the kind of nickname he'd be given by either a loving grandmother, or he'd be called that if he introduced himself that way. These days I can't see middle school kids starting to call someone Zevik on their own; he's more likely to get a nickname based on his last name or on some in-joke.

TL;DR it's Zevik :-)

[nogah]

Hi, stranger - I come to help because my Dad's best friend is Ze'ev, and his nickname is indeed based on his last name. Another friend names Ze'ev is called Vova by everyone - which is wolf in...um, fuck, another language? I could swear it was Hungarian, but that's Farkash.

He's also called Ze'vi, though.

TL;DR it is Zevik, roga's right.

[seekingferret]

My mom and all her Jewish friends in elementary school used to use Hebrew letters as code to pass notes their goyish teachers couldn't read. But they didn't know sufficient Hebrew, so they just wrote out English messages by transliterating them into the Hebrew alphabet. This reminded me of that.

[roga]

Hee, yes. At one point, after seeing a table of Ancient Hebrew script in a textbook in elementary school, we learned it just so we could pass around notes in out "secret language" in class.

[nogah]

THIS POST

IKR

[roga]

/o\

[nogah]

WANNA KNOW WHAT REALLY HURTS THE EYE, TRY SPELLING JAPANESE NAMES IN HEBREW.

JFC.