And if he had a son, he's name him "Boris."
So if he really had a son, his name wouldn’t be Trayvon? It would be Boris?
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Fatale?
'Sasha" is a nickname or short form for Natasha. One of the instructors at Norwich once told me that a beginning student once answered the usual question as to why any interest in Russian thus: "My grandparents were communists, my parents are comunists, I'm a communist, and I want to be able to read Marx in the original language!" The instructor said he didn't have the heart to tell her and somehow or other kept his face straight, but it must have been hard.
My second grade teacher had a daughter named Natasha. Hmm. And their last name was Robinson. I wonder if they were commies related to Michelle. They were also black. I was in second grade in the 70s in MS.
I also knew a Greek family whose daughter was named Anastasia. They were exotic to us rednecks. :)
Studying Russian at a real school like Norwich or Middlebury should cure most people of wanting to be communists. I’ve never heard a Russian say anything good about communism or communists. No idea what happened to Bork Obunga...
don’t we have more important things to report
And if he had a son, he's name him "Boris."
So...that would make Obama "Fearless Leader"?
You must not spend much time on Wikipedia. They reported her name as Natasha three or four years ago.
Besides, Natasha isn't a Russian name. It's Pottsylvanian.
What a ridiculous article.
At least they didn’t name her Tawanna or Tasheka.
There are many Black women named with -a(e)sha, my guess that they picked a sound of it over real meaning. Sasha never was short for Natasha in Russian, that part is nonsense. Sasha is short for Alexandra, and Natasha is short for Nataliya.
Boris, dahling, is dat you???
Natasha is a lovely name and so is Natalie.
So what?
I know a lot of women and girls named Natasha.
It comes from the Latin word for Christmas.
Very few Russians would actually name a child Natasha (or Sasha), but the diminutives caught on as first names in the West -- maybe from Russian novels.
Sure, it's funny and strange that the press never gives the Obama girl's real first name, but it's not like it's news or anything.
I don't know how much to read into the parents giving her the name.
If they were real Leninists they might just have gone with "Krupskaya."
Has anyone asked Obama's daughter about her feelings with regard to...
do any of these people use their real names?
"Natasha" is the diminutive of "Nataliya."
"Sasha" is the diminutive of "Alexandra."
It would be like naming a child "Bob" instead of "Robert" or "Billy" instead of "William," or "Larry" instead of "Lawrence."
Oh, darn, wait a second. Some parts of the country do that all the time.