my nickname is ... & my real name is ...

Once had a drummer in a band I was in and his name was Jim Smith. Had to laugh at how many people thought that was his stage name. If you were to choose a stage name, I don't think it would be that.
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Hahahah. Too true.

I can't tell you how many people have thought my name is Christmas...Chris Smith must just be too hard to grasp!

Smitty
 

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Nickname: Yoyo (don't ask why) or as Schollar likes to call me, 'The Baron' (because of my german ancestry), and many at work call me Jon Von!

Real Name: Jonathan Daniel von der Heyden
 
Jonathan Daniel,

two beautiful names, especially when I think at history
Jonathan, the best friend of king David, was a real hero
(I named my third son Jonatan)
and so was Daniel

von der Heyden must be simply something like
"from the meadows" or?

kind regards,
Erik
 
Thanks Erik, you always seem to be about to pay a good compliment! :-D

I always thought Heyden meant 'Heathen' which would quite contradict my christian names :-?

But 'meadow' also makes sense, or possibly the direct transaltion to english would 'heather'?

Of course the problem is that I hardly speak German so I haven't really got a clue about the language and know very little of my ancestry!

:)
 
Since we both have German ancestry (some more aristocratic than others, admittedly): Wir sollten die Sprache erlernen!
 
"erlernen" or just "lernen", it's the same word as "learn"

when translating using www.freetranslation.com
"Röslein auf der heide" (Schubert song)
I get
"Rose on the moor"

"Röslein von der heide"
yields (typical aladin-word :lol: )
"rose of the moor"

I hope this still sounds good, Dear Jonathan of the moor !
 
moor: a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.

Moor: a Muslim of the mixed Berber and Arab people inhabiting NW Africa. A member of this group that invaded Spain in the 8th century a.d. and occupied it until 1492.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes case The Hound of the Baskervilles takes place on a moor.

Southern Spain still has many places where Moorish influence can be seen in the architecture.
 
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