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Old August 18, 2009, 06:29 PM
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Yes, it happened sometimes when people are looking to their dog in the park while the dog is walking with a poppy.

It're the ironies of the life.
a poppy?
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Old August 18, 2009, 10:04 PM
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I meant a female dog.
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Old August 19, 2009, 12:13 AM
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In Spain English names for dogs are very common: Tom, Bobby (sorry, Bob ), Tim, Toby, ...
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Old August 19, 2009, 03:12 AM
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Also called terms of endearment. I realize how "pet names" would be translated into the name of a pet quite easily. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Endearment_(disambiguation) states: Terms of endearment are words or phrases used to address and/or describe a person or animal for which the speaker feels love or affection.

So instead of calling my wife by her name, Jennifer, I most often call her the loving nick name, baby.
Do you remember a film called Terms of Endearment (Jack Nickolson,Shirley Mac Laine )?
In Spanish it was called La fuerza del cariño Maybe goes to prove there isn't a good translation for this expression....
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@Crotalito: "poppy" es una amapola. "Puppy" es un cachorro (de cualquier sexo).

@María José: movie title translations don't have any commercial success, according to marketeers, so they always change them. I have even seen Spanish or Latin American movies whose titles have been changed in Mexico "for commercial reasons".


As for the topic itself, the fashion among younger people is to call their partner "bebé" (as an adaptation of "baby").


And the strangest names for pets I've heard:

Parrots: Simón, Arnold (because of Swarzenegger), Alberto (the owner couldn't decide between Camus and Einstein).
Cats: Gollum, Habermas, Theodore W. Adorno (this is said to have been Julio Cortázar's cat).
Dogs: Katia, Bruno, Ícaro, Goliat... and one of my neighbours had two old english sheepdogs called William and Charles (he said William's brother, Henry, was being raised by someone else).
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Hmmm...

I befriended a family from Chile here in the US, now they are back in Chile (he retired). The funny part of this family, was that dad was nicknamed "pollo" (chicken/chick), mom was nikednamed "mona" (female monkey/ short for Mónica) and the son's nickname was "patico" (little duck)...the family dog was named "George"
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Hmmm...

I befriended a family from Chile here in the US, now they are back in Chile (he retired). The funny part of this family, was that dad was nicknamed "pollo" (chicken/chick), mom was nikednamed "mona" (female monkey/ short for Mónica) and the son's nickname was "patico" (little duck)...the family dog was named "George"
And was the end of the story.

There are people who are nicknamed the pitufos.
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And was the end of the story.

There are people who are nicknamed the pitufos.

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