A salesman came to our door the other night. He asked Speed his name. Speed, still learning to use personal pronouns and now sometimes OVERusing them, responded: "Me."
"His name is Speed," I said.
"Wow! Cool name, dude. Is that Latin?"
ummm.......
Speed's real name is decidedly NOT Latin. As best I know, it has no resemblance to anything Latin. It is a name that reflects his culture and a name that is spelled incorrectly in order to confuse the masses regarding pronunciation and his gender. If bio mom had spelled it more conventionally, with an apostrophe for instance, the pronunciation and gender may not come up in questions regularly. (For the record, I actually LIKE Speed's not so Latin name, just not the spelling.)
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