01-22-2009, 12:05 PM
Paul Younan Wrote:Lars Lindgren Wrote:This reminds me of some gems from the "You know you are Assyrian when..." list:
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37. Your middle name is your father's first name, even if you're a girl.
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45. You have a name that rhymes with your sibling (ex: Bernard and Bernadette)
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49. You have a relative whose first and last name are the same.
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It's true! Both my sister's middle names are "Shimon"!
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My wife's and my sister-in-law's middle names are "Charles", and my mother-in-law's middle name is Yousef. But, then again, this isn't that odd since the "middle names" and "last names" reflect the names of your father, grandfather, great grandfather and so on, as described by Karl.
As for number 45, a typical example of this is a family we know whose sons are named Fares, Firas, Frans :-)