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My parents went out to a concert on Friday (I know, as usual I'm reporting late :-p).
The singer was, to quote Mom, "a Black chick named Shamika Thompson." She sang jazz, apparently, and even got her song played on the radio "just like those girls with the flat bellies." (Shamika was a little overweight, you see.) All in all, Shamika sounded like a really cool person.
Although I don't like the name Shamika at all, I thought it went well with the ln Thompson. And Mika by itself is nice imo.
EDIT: Upon re-reading this, I guess it might look like Mom said the "flat bellies" comment. She didn't; Shamika did. But I don't quite know how to fix the sentence, so I'll just leave a separate note here.
*Note that Mom is 100% non-racist. But she dislikes overboard PCness over certain racial terms like "Black" and talks matter-of-factly and rather "slangy". So that's why she described Shamika the way she did. I just thought I should explain that, lest I get yelled at here.
Miranda
"Come... you must eat my child." — From a badfic
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.
The singer was, to quote Mom, "a Black chick named Shamika Thompson." She sang jazz, apparently, and even got her song played on the radio "just like those girls with the flat bellies." (Shamika was a little overweight, you see.) All in all, Shamika sounded like a really cool person.
Although I don't like the name Shamika at all, I thought it went well with the ln Thompson. And Mika by itself is nice imo.
EDIT: Upon re-reading this, I guess it might look like Mom said the "flat bellies" comment. She didn't; Shamika did. But I don't quite know how to fix the sentence, so I'll just leave a separate note here.
*Note that Mom is 100% non-racist. But she dislikes overboard PCness over certain racial terms like "Black" and talks matter-of-factly and rather "slangy". So that's why she described Shamika the way she did. I just thought I should explain that, lest I get yelled at here.
Miranda
"Come... you must eat my child." — From a badfic
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.
This message was edited 7/4/2005, 7:12 PM
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Although the trendyness of it doesn't really appeal to me, I must say that compared to some of the names that parents come up with, Shamika is not bad at all. It sounds nice enough and I think that the nn Mika (MEE-kah, I imagine) is very cute :-)
I agree that it sounds good with her ln Thompson.
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I agree that it sounds good with her ln Thompson.
!!!!!!!! Ribron, Merika, Cira, Vodar, Varena "Ena", Anderven, Keslad and Tolian.
---- Lidana, Palin, Vidra and Tonet.
♥"Mada"♥
Deep space is my dwelling place; the stars my destination
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Not so much racist but calling a woman a "chick" is an insult as well. ;)
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I don't understand why. I never have. I like being called "chick." I used to date a guy who called me that and I just really like it.
I don't see the insult to it. It's a precious, soft, cute animal. I don't see why it would be wrong to be thought of as sweet and loveable.
!! Elvira and Torsten, my good looking PPs.
I don't see the insult to it. It's a precious, soft, cute animal. I don't see why it would be wrong to be thought of as sweet and loveable.
!! Elvira and Torsten, my good looking PPs.
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I don't see why it's sexist, really ... no more so than calling a guy "mate" or "son" or something :-/
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Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own my love"
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Ditto. "Chick"'s cute slang, if nms.
Miranda
"Come... you must eat my child." — From a badfic
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.
"Come... you must eat my child." — From a badfic
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.
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Haha, she sounds funny. Your mom sounds funny too.
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I don't like Shamika, it sounds too close to Shakira. The combination sounds fine though.
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"Dance like no one's watching."
This is a favorite quote of mine
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