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Old 01-15-2011, 09:17 AM
 
Location: Miami, FL
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Check how you say nation, organization, negotiation. If you sound Like marisleysys or Gloria Estefan, you do have a Miami accent
Ahh what a tongue twister lol. Maybe I do have it
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Old 01-15-2011, 10:30 AM
 
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Ahh what a tongue twister lol. Maybe I do have it

I have noticed that the more recent Cuban arrivals .. less than twenty years or so or raised in Commie Cuba have these weird names ... some Russian .. I know more than one Lenin , Boris , Sasha and then those weird names ending in "sis" ... like Elians cousin ... we just hired a young Cuban guy in our warehouse .... Diosleysis .... !!!
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Old 01-15-2011, 11:42 AM
 
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I once met a Cuban named Rodney.

btw, the suffix I think is "is", I noticed many Cubans use names ending with that suffix

Gladis, Glarisdelis, Diosleysis, etc...
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Old 01-15-2011, 08:24 PM
 
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I have noticed that the more recent Cuban arrivals .. less than twenty years or so or raised in Commie Cuba have these weird names ... some Russian .. I know more than one Lenin , Boris , Sasha and then those weird names ending in "sis" ... like Elians cousin ... we just hired a young Cuban guy in our warehouse .... Diosleysis .... !!!
Tell me about it, that's the 80's generation. That decade in Cuba was characterized by being under an enormous Russian influence. Just ask at 20's and early 30's Cubans what their name is? Sixty percent of them will give you a Russian name, specially those beginning with Yu, Ju, Ye, like Yumisisleydis, Yunet, Yanet and the classics Boris, Miska, Alexander and so on. Disgusting but a good experiment to see how a culture can be subdued and changed in such short amount of time.
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Old 01-16-2011, 09:43 AM
 
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Tell me about it, that's the 80's generation. That decade in Cuba was characterized by being under an enormous Russian influence. Just ask at 20's and early 30's Cubans what their name is? Sixty percent of them will give you a Russian name, specially those beginning with Yu, Ju, Ye, like Yumisisleydis, Yunet, Yanet and the classics Boris, Miska, Alexander and so on. Disgusting but a good experiment to see how a culture can be subdued and changed in such short amount of time.

Wow ... interesting ... when I went to UM in the mid 80's ... all of my Cuban American friends had the traditional Latin names ... i.e Carlos , Javier , Roberto , Jose .. etc , etc .... no Boris , Lenin or Yusdelkis

And this is what the Cuban Adjustment Act and Wet / Foot Dry / Foot has been bring in from Cuba in the last 10 years .
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Old 01-16-2011, 10:22 AM
 
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I once met a Cuban named Rodney.

btw, the suffix I think is "is", I noticed many Cubans use names ending with that suffix

Gladis, Glarisdelis, Diosleysis, etc...
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Rodney was the best choreographer of Tropicana some 60 to 55 years ago, but his real name was Roderico Neyra.
Yes, the stupid habit of using weird names started during the late 70's among the collectivized "New Men", there's even a Usnavy. Gladis is not one of those names.

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Old 01-16-2011, 10:25 AM
 
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Winter gladis is a real name, what are you talking about? Ever heard of Gladys Knight?

First they had real spanish names Juan, Jose, Roberto, Maria, Marta
then came the Russian names Boris, Ninoska, Vladimir
Then some got creative...
Some used foreign words or names: usnavy, ladys, usmail, maybelline
finally, the made up names: sugeyly, yusleysis, yamileysis
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Old 01-16-2011, 10:44 AM
 
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Tell me about it, that's the 80's generation. That decade in Cuba was characterized by being under an enormous Russian influence. Just ask at 20's and early 30's Cubans what their name is? Sixty percent of them will give you a Russian name, specially those beginning with Yu, Ju, Ye, like Yumisisleydis, Yunet, Yanet and the classics Boris, Miska, Alexander and so on. Disgusting but a good experiment to see how a culture can be subdued and changed in such short amount of time.
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Thomas

Those names were not popular among all Cubans, some are very traditional and conservative.
A lot of English names, Willy, Mildred, Jennifer, Helen, Frank, etc.
Russian culture has totally vanished from that country, people only remember Russian cartoons, Ladas and boxy television sets. Russian is not taught anywhere, but English is.
All people dealing with tourism have a good command of English.
Alexander is the favorite name of beardo because he believes he's Alexander the Great, he's got like 10 kids with different versions of than name.

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Old 01-16-2011, 12:22 PM
 
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Thomas

Those names were not popular among all Cubans, some are very traditional and conservative.
A lot of English names, Willy, Mildred, Jennifer, Helen, Frank, etc.
Russian culture has totally vanished from that country, people only remember Russian cartoons, Ladas and boxy television sets. Russian is not taught anywhere, but English is.
All people dealing with tourism have a good command of English.
Alexander is the favorite name of beardo because he believes he's Alexander the Great, he's got like 10 kids with different versions of than name.
Hey man, careful I'm from the 80's generation. .

It is funny, every time a teacher used to pass the signing sheet one will see a lot of funny names. Yumisisleydis always got my attention. What strange but humorous name.
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Old 01-19-2011, 01:17 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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The biggest trip to me when I was in Miami was the AA folks names. Up north, AA folks name their kids Jamel, Tanisha, Jakara, Janeeshia, etc. When I came to Miami it was like Fred, Bob, Sam and Ralph. I was like .... "Thank you!"
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