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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Here’s a bilingual one, posted by my son-in-law along with a graphic proclaiming CHEWIE IS MY CO-PILOT. He quotes a friend who wrote:
Thats nothing, a friend thought Chewy (Chewbaca) was Chuy (nickname for people named Jesus). ¶ He thought Chewbacca’s name was Jesus.
Spanish has interesting, and somewhat regularized, ways of forming nicknames. Generally s/d/t > ch, l and r get mixed up, and you shorten things to bisyllables, taking the stressed syllable and adding an -o for men/boys or -a for women/girls: e.g. Lorenzo (loRENso) > Lencho, Ignacio (igNAsyo) > Nacho, Florencia (floRENsya) > Lencha, and so forth.) Since my name is David (daBIDH) my nickname is Bicho, which also happens to mean “repulsive bug”. Anyhow, that’s how “Jesús” (hay-SOOSE) > Chucho (CHEWchoe), a more widespread form of the nickname, which then is shortened to > Chuy .
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2022-04-11 10:51:05)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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