Ti Chiami "Venerdė"?
According to the BBC, "Italy's top court has banned a couple from naming their son Venerdė (Friday)," saying such a "ridiculous" name could expose the boy to mockery. The Corte Suprema di Cassazione said the name—taken from Daniel Defoe's famous novel Robinson Crusoe—was associated with "subservience and inferiority." The judges also ordered that the boy be renamed Gregorio—after the saint's day on which he was born.
The parents had argued that they should be free to name him as they pleased. The couple, known only as Mara O and Roberto G, had pointed out that Italian celebrities quite often gave their children bizarre names, citing Chanel and Oceano as examples. They now say that they will continue to call the boy Friday, describing it as "nice," and that they might even call their next child Mercoledė (Wednesday).
Maybe the parents didn't bother to consult a list of common, traditional Italian baby names. Baby Friday/Gregorio has a lot of supporters, though, some claiming that the Italian judicial system should not have been involved in a private decision.
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mara o. e roberto g….poverini! se loro abitano in america, quando il bambino arriva in casa dopo il giorno nella scuola, loro possono dire: TGIF! hope y’all can suffer my bad italian. io sono diverta…amore, marianna
i found this charming poem tucked away in one of my books but i don’t know the title. “monday’s child is fair of face; tuesday’s child is full of grace; wednesday’s child is full of woe, thursday’s child has far to go. friday’s child is loving & giving, saturday’s child works hard for a living; & the child who is born on the sabbath day is bonny, blithe & good & gay.” i discovered a link that shows how to figure the day of the week you were born & i discovered that i was born on a friday! [TGIF] i agree w/ the poem’s description for that day. i wish i were able to translate this into italian. alas, i am unable…but then, it wouldn’t rhyme either. best to all of you bloggers…marianna