What's in a name?

Thanks, Bill... er... William Skakespeare. Let's fall in love and run away together. I don't care if you are a Shakespeare...

So, I thought I should discuss the blog URL. Because I obviously have no life. And I'm sure "toshibatasj" looks really weird to those who don't know the story.

Ok, my Spanish teacher always calls me "Natasjita" or "Tasjita." Because "ita" (or "ito") is one of those little diminutive suffixes that you can add to the end of a name to create a term of endearment.

(Can I interject here? Well, it is my blog... The Italian equivalent of this suffix is "ino." So I was thinking about the word "bambino," which means "children," and wondering if that that was just a word with the suffix "ino" added to it. So I look up bambo, and what does it mean? Fool. Italians are great, aren't they?

While I'm interjecting, can I just say that the word "suffix" is one of my favourite things ever. I don't know why, but I am aware of my total geekiness.... geekocity...)

Back to my story... I tell my friends about this, and they say "Aw, Tasjita, that's cute." Until... ok, I can't remember who, but I'm pretty sure it was Corey who accidently said "Toshiba" instead of "Tasjita." And ever since then they've called Toshiba, Tasjie, Tasja, Tasj... Yeah, there's my little story about me and my nickname.

As an addition to the story I should tell about the time that Gina and Alana came over, and Gina looks at my DVD player and literally (litrally) screams "TOSHIBA!" I have no idea why, considering it was made by Samsung, but ok, whatever makes you happy Gina...

Gina are you Italian??

That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.