I've been a fan of learning foreign languages for as long as I remember (it helps to grow up in a bilingual household!

) and I also love to play with words...so, my naming game started with my cats, 6 years ago:
Voxie ("vox" in Latin, "voice") -- because he is a chatterbox!
Strasti ("strast" in Russian, "passion") -- this cat is such a lover, not a fighter

Then, a few years later, I met Aleph in a shelter and I knew that he had to be mine because of his name: Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet...
Then, I got leopard geckos, and I didn't like the original names for them, and my boyfriend is Mexican, so we gave them Spanish names: Flaca (because she was so seriously skinny! Now she's my Flaquita Gordita Bonita Perezosita -- my Skinny Chubby Pretty Lazy girl!) and Rosa (because she has a pink underbelly).
My snakes came next...I named Maizie (amel) as such because of the connection between maize/corn & I thought that she was a girl (which she may still be, who knows...) and then Fritz (anery)...as far as I'm aware, Fritz isn't a word used in conversation -- it's just a name, but I knew that I needed a German name finally because that's what I grew-up with and my original German name for Strasti got botched when I found out that he is a boy! So, Fritz he became...and it's just so cute to say "Fritzi!" or "Fritzchen!" I think he likes it...
Finally, my baby beardie...after all of that, I finally used the language that has long been my favorite, French...her name is Jolie because she is a "pretty" girl.
And that's my mini multicultural zoo.
