<p>merc : I also passed 12th last year, so he must be with me but maybe in different batch…</p>
<p>shikhar : My grandparents are also superstitious… They named my father - suraj… me-ravi… both mean “sun” :D</p>
<p>MODS : Is this the longest thread ever on CC? pls. confirm … ;)</p>
<p>haha, you want to change your name? messy 
yeah you get an affidavit and get records changed, and if you’re old (you are) you put out an ad in the papers. i think.</p>
<p>i became shikhar in 7th</p>
<p>hey so - nice - we can suggest names for you! awesome. maybe you have it all figured out tho, which would be sad.</p>
<p>no ravi those stupid OR threads… then there’s the ED lounge on the pton board, which is longer. but we’re closing in</p>
<p>no…I guess I’ll survive with Sucharita 
And I will make sure that my kids do not have embarrassing names…</p>
<p>Thank u sucharita for ur suggestions,
i will make those changes.</p>
<p>ok sucha…looks like my kids are gonna have decent names after all 
well my first name IS quite a mouthful anyway - Suryaprakash</p>
<p>sucharita and suryaprakash. cool 
:)</p>
<p>(hehe… all in good humor)</p>
<p>lol. call me either surya or prakash. i hate it combined. ;)</p>
<p>and SP? SP sounds good to me</p>
<p>lol. SP. my last name is a even more of a mouthful</p>
<p>SP??? In my school’s lingo, that would be ‘Safety Patrol’, the bunch of stupid little Class 9 boys who try to keep the traffic under control and fail miserably.</p>
<p>Hrrmmm…doesnt seem too much like callthecops . or should I say suryaprakash…you poor guy. </p>
<p>Anyway, there are several reasons why I hate my name.
1.) Around 20 people in a school of 1800+ can pronounce it properly. Why am I not surprised?
2.) My dad burdened me with the name because he wanted to name me after the heroine in his favorite Bangla novel. So last year i read it and this girl is the most sickening piece of humanity that i have ever come across either in real life or in books. Oh wait- yeah. Shes practically subhuman. Ughhh.</p>
<p>So yeah, here’s my resolution. all my kids will have precisely 2 syllable long names. And they’ll thank me for it.</p>
<p>Oh no this is getting worse and worse.
Thank God mine is only 3 letters long…</p>
<p>parentny in [thread=26017]this thread[/thread]
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<p>why can’t people pronounce your name right? as many syllables as it may be it’s pretty pronounceable. or maybe i’m mind-pronouncing it wong :p</p>
<p>and you read a bangla novel?! wah.</p>
<p>hmm…i wonder where i fit in. i wish i could ride on my dad’s credentials and position, but i guess it really wont make of a difference. “kanegaonkar” - maharashtrian name…im half marathi and half tamil…cant speak any of them right. </p>
<p>everyone mutilates my name…none of them can write “Surya”. they always write something like Suriya, Serria, Sooria, Sirya, or some *****. damn…and i dont wanna even talk abt my last name…</p>
<p>That is what all my mom’s friends keep telling me. of course, they also say that the aid is MUCH better at the graduate level. But I talked to someone who said that while all this *might *, undergrads just have a lot more fun :p</p>
<p>hahaha i’m sorry sp :p</p>
<p>but gotta be fun, those times <em>ducks</em></p>
<p>yeah… I was bribed by my dad
maybe you’re pronouncing it ok- I wouldnt be able to say obviously. The point is there are two distinct ways of saying it, a sanskritized way and a bengali way and people frequently try to use both together. Which ends up sounding very weird.</p>
<p>surya- your mom’s Tamil? Mine too.</p>
<p>i’d imagine the bong way is soochareeta. or shoochareeta. hmm?</p>