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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tweet by San Antonio Express-New, saying: "Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns."

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago

Wait, Ted isn't even one of his names? Of all the names in the world he choose to go with Ted? No disrespect against anyone named Ted but there are cooler names out there...

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He needed something not so ethnic sounding. Ted is pretty fucking white.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He wanted to hold a TED talk so badly but was too incompetent, so he decided on holding Ted talks instead

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Fortunately not and most likely never will (i'm not from the US) :D

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

That one was a reference to the show "How I Met Your Mother"

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Is Ted not commonly used as short for Edward?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

The contracted form of The Edward.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

T'ed

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't know. Sorry english is not my first language. Could you explain where the 'T' comes from?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It is. Like Senator Ted Kennedy.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

But not too short, or he'd end up being Ron DeSantis.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think he's right behind DeSantis in many ways. Right on his heels...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I thought it was short for Theodore. But I guess Edward works too. I mean why not.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Is 'Ed' used at all? That i would understand...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Probably because no one would take Eddie Cruz or Raph Cruz seriously.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

In Texas? Eddie Cruz sounds like a guy who drives an El Camino and has a cousin named Cooter. He'd have been the presidential nominee in '16.

"Did you hear about Eddie and Cooter? They running for the big house! Get in the pickup, we're gonna go vote!"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, like Bob. Bob the builder is a productive member of society unlike Ted here.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Ted is a nickname for Edward. Don't ask me how, but it is.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In medieval England it was trendy to make nicknames by rhyming with a shortened form

Robert -> Rob -> Bob

Richard -> Rick -> Dick

Margaret -> Meg -> Peg

William -> Will -> Bill

All being pretty common examples. This was covered pretty early on in the excellent History of English Podcast

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That explains my Aunt Peggy.

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