He must be really good at the arcade crane game.
He must be really good at the arcade crane game.
LOL.
Curious about his last name - Agtaguem. I have friends and relatives that are Hawaiian and Tongan, and his doesn't sound like any of the names I've come to associate with the Pacific Islands.
The name is Philipino. The Tagalog language is spoken predominantly in the Philippines.
Thanks. For some weird reason, names have always interested me. When my kids were little I was in charge of creating the class list one year. A parent had put their full name at the top of the page, but underneath only put the kid's first name. In most cases, I'd have just filled in the parent's last name for the kid, but this mom was Maria Jonsdottir. I knew the male kid couldn't have that name. (Well, maybe I shouldn't have made that assumption with the way gender is going these days, lol.)
Thank You for your service @KarpteachYou are very welcome!! The only reason I know about the language is because of my 6 years in the US Navy.
Thanks. For some weird reason, names have always interested me. When my kids were little I was in charge of creating the class list one year. A parent had put their full name at the top of the page, but underneath only put the kid's first name. In most cases, I'd have just filled in the parent's last name for the kid, but this mom was Maria Jonsdottir. I knew the male kid couldn't have that name. (Well, maybe I shouldn't have made that assumption with the way gender is going these days, lol.)
Was the mom a product of inner city schools, with advanced Ebonics skills? Johnsdottir instead of John's daughter?
Icelandic. They still use the old conventional son/daughter way of naming. It makes trying to trace family history a real problem. On my Norwegian grandfather's side, we've only been able to go back a handful if generations. I'm glad they stopped the practice when they did, or my maiden name would have been Olavusson instead of Jacobson. For the kid in the story, his last name is Brynjolfson.