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Mocho was a Spanish word that meant maimed or referred to something that had been lopped off like a stump. To call Homer el mocho was, essentially, to call him "Stumpy" or "the maimed one." It doesn't sound particularly flattering, but among Spanish speakers the giving of nicknames is tantamount to a declaration of love. Things that would sound insulting outright in English were tokens of deep affection when said in Spanish.


Gwen Cooper


#english #language #nicknames #spanish #love

JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.


William Shakespeare


#humor #jaques #names #orlando #rosalind

I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.


William Shakespeare


#birth #identity #inspiration #inspirational #life

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.


Neil Gaiman


#inspirational #names #inspirational

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.


Aldrich Ames


#agents #already #could #double #even

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.


Stephen Vincent Benet


#fallen #fat #get #i #love

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!


Martin Bormann


#after #aware #books #buildings #clearly

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.


Elizabeth Barrett Browning


#names #said #them #things #true

People's fates are simplified by their names.


Elias Canetti


#names #people #simplified #their

Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay.


David Mitchell


#names #sex #age






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