Petina Gappah - You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suff...

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You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.

Petina Gappah

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Sie könnten Namen wie Hass haben; Sie könnten Namen haben, die etwas bedeuten wie Leiden oder Armut. Namen sind also nicht nur Namen: Namen haben echte Bedeutung und neigen dazu, der Welt die Umstände Ihrer Eltern zum Zeitpunkt Ihrer Geburt mitzuteilen.

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