April US National team camp & Jesolo (video at post 51/quick hits at post 52)

[irichluck21]

Russian Championship is in 2 weeks, so we will have 2 sets of domestic scoring to compare

Is Russia using their bonus system or ?

 

[MaryClare]

I don’t know. Sometimes it’s not known until you see the scoring.

 

[Gymfan93]

I think it’s Iceland that has an approved list of baby names you have to chose from, no other options.
There is definitely an argument for refusing to let you (in an English-Speaking country, at least) call your child Anal, as above.

 

[makam]

The one, usually unspoken, issue with interesting names is that government forms don’t like punctuation or extra capitalization and they all dislike it in different ways. Your last name might be O’Reilly and you might be listed under O’Reilly, OReilly, Oreilly, O Reilly, etc. And on forms where getting whatever version they chose right is important, it can be frustrating in the extreme. So eMjae Frazier’s parents did not do her any favors. My parents gave me a hyphen (think Mary-Kate Olson) and that damn thing has been the bane of my paperwork existence.

I do hope they Miley, Mylyeigh, Myli trend is going to end soon. How many Hannah Montana fans can there be?

 

[MaryClare]

The capital M is absolutely ridiculous. There are no words. Literally no words, as I found when trying to explain it in Russian.

 

[onodian]

Just tell them it’s the same principle as iPhone or iMac

 

[RedBirdie]

Took my over a year to figure out eMjae was “MJ” and not something like “Emage” (think “imagine” but without the -ine).

 

[Seyonne]

Same. My married name is something like LeBlanc and it’s always an adventure finding my name in a database. I always have to say, “Try it with a space or put in a lowercase ‘b’.

 

[Indy]

My mom’s first name is two words and she has no middle name. Two separate names in the “first name” section, nothing in the “middle name” section. No hyphen. It’s also pronounced the same as a common name for her generation but spelled differently (like Steph Annie instead of Stephanie). My grandparents were trying to be creative and it’s been a pain in my moms ass her entire life. She has to both spell it and explain that there is a space every time she gives her name on the phone or for a form.

 

[daniTS]

My mom has a hyphenated first name (no middle) and a hyphenated last name (which we share). The last name’s never really been an issue for me but she said the first name is a pain sometimes!

 

[onodian]

I am blessed with this one name nobody can pronounce outside of Spain (Iñigo) and then I think all Iberoamericans use both surnames, which nobody else in Europe does, so, confusions all around.

 

[Hatsumomo]

Well, aside from Princess Bride fans…

 

[onodian]

Well, aside from Princess Bride fans…

this really hasn’t happened for a while now so I’m thinking generational change took care of this. Which I think on the whole I’m pretty happy with

 

[rlayt]

Okay I’m 60. My parents saddled me with a middle name that was unusual. They couldn’t agree on my name so I got two middle names mashed together with a letter dropped and a capital in the middle of the name. So it looked like they messed up the spelling to people of their generation and mine. I hated it every time I had to use my full legal name. The trend of messed up names started a long time ago.

 

[QuietColours]

The worst I’ve had to deal with was a maiden name that was also a very common girl’s name, leading to significant confusion. I have no qualms about changing my name when I got married. Neither did my sister, who had an even worse time of it–her first name is a common first and last name.

 

[Gymfan93]

I know somebody who had a perfectly normal name, but when they were in their 20s, a notorious criminal was all over the news with the same name, which was unfortunate.
I suppose the one good thing with a very unusual name is you shorten the odds of that happening.

 

[makam]

yeah, but if that person did something bad but not as bad as the notorious person, they might remain un-googleable. Like, if your name is James Patterson, it is going to be a few pages in to google before a potential employer is going to find any info about you. Which might not be a bad thing if you did stupid things in your past. And as long as your employer didn’t think you were the criminal…

(I worked with a Michael Jordan who was not the basketball player.)

 

[navyblue]

Didn’t Roberson actually get second on floor with her 13.200.? Doesn’t necessarily change anything in terms of your team analysis, but by the modest standards of the floor scoring this meet I suppose she might meet the definition of a “specialist” ¯_(ツ)_/¯

 

[irichluck21]

Didn’t Roberson actually get second on floor with her 13.200.?

Thanks for catching that! I missed it.
Yeah I suppose she could have been taken for vault and floor, especially since she has two vaults.
Then again her DTY didn’t score well and her FX score of 13.200 is easily replicated by Frasier or McClain.

 

[Bob]

and her bar scores have always been so poor they really lower her usefulness internationally. I also think her lack of form and flexibility would be deducted more heavily in international FIG.