Aging of names

2022-05-06 09:10:33Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ZIJA VUKAJ
Aging of names
Zija Vukaj

As I sit in the seat and wait for the departure of the Tirana bus, I involuntarily follow the movements of the people who get on and take their seats in the remaining seats. Once adjusted, they pull out their cell phones, joining the action of the people who have ridden in front of them and after a while everyone is buzzing on their screens.

A doable lady in her sixties comes at the last moment, looks left and right, stares at an empty seat, and after asking, sits down, takes a seat and relaxes. I say to myself that this will not have a cell phone, as I am not seeing it roar like the others, but no! I was wrong.

After a while he takes out of his bag a cell phone three times bigger than the others. As much as a sidewalk tile. The rubber dress is in melon color. He opens the screen and toys come out. Dive into them with great zeal. It touches somewhere like an insect type which explodes and crumbles without mark without mark.

Then a brick wall appears that just takes shape, collapsing from top to bottom as in the legend of Rozafat. Meanwhile, the phone rings loudly. He starts the conversation with the other side of the line: “Hey Eqrem, how do you know? Did that friend come? How does it look? Tranquility. Do not ban them even today. " A man received a phone call and was saying to someone: “Do you know the big head nails that are used to drive them into the wood to hold papers. Go buy a handful of Vata. ”

Without knowing Eqrem or Vata, I imagined them both as old men, just starting from the names. It suddenly occurred to me that Albanians no longer use such names. Today is the time of "modern" names.

And a unique quality of Albanians as a culture and as a people appears here. Aging of names. So the names of a period no longer work because their bearers age. But does this happen in other peoples, languages ​​and cultures? Does it happen that an William, a Bill, a Charles, a Jim, a Jack, a David, a Jean, a Jacques, a Gino or a Gineto, Sergio or Helmut or Wolfgang, Ahmet or Osman, Boris or Leon grow old in places or languages of the respective crops or show elder carriers. Jack and Jim can be babies or old people. This is what the English folk song says: "Jack and Jimmy up on the hill / play together like two pigeons / Jimmy turned his head into a dove / Jackie made a colotumba." But why do we grow old? Come on give me the tip.


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