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Dear Mexican: How do Mexicans get such ridiculous nicknames from seemingly normal names? For instance, José becomes Chepe, Eduardo is Lalo, Gabriel becomes Gabi, and Guillermo devolves into Memo.

It's Marcela, Not Chela

Dear Mexican: I want to know why Mexicans have such incongruous nicknames. In English, people have nicknames that have some relation to their given names — for example, Kenny is the nickname for Kenneth, or Jenny for Jennifer. Granted, there are some nicknames that seem like a stretch of logic, like Jack for John and Peg for Margaret, but there are none so incompatible as Pepe for José, Pancho for Francisco, or Chucho (or Chuy) for Jesus. I have asked many Mexicans about this, and they all tell me, "Porque así es," so I finally decided to ask THE Mexican.

La China Curiosa Who's Really Korean

Dear Wabette and Chinita: The definitive study on this quirk remains Viola Waterhouse's "Mexican Spanish Nicknames," included in the 1981 anthology Linguistics across Continents: Studies in Honor of Richard S. Pittman. Unfortunately, the ethnolinguist devotes most of her article to including as many seemingly wacky Mexican apodos as possible (some of the better ones mentioned are Goyo for Gregorio, Licha for Alicia, Nacho for Ignacio and Cuco for Refugio) instead of theorizing why Mexican Spanish is prone to such a mangled morphology. Waterhouse does identify one phenomenon that factors into many of these name changes: palatalization, when speakers pronounce non-palatal consonants as palatals — for example, the transformation of s into a ch sound when Salvador becomes Chava. Other phonetical laws not mentioned by Waterhouse that influence Mexican Spanish nicknames include apocopation (the dropping of a word's last letters or syllables — Caro for Carolina), apheresis (when a word loses syllables or letters at its beginning — Mando for Armando) and syncopation, when a word contracts by shedding sounds — that's how Roberto becomes Beto.

But the question remains: Why the dropping of sounds and letters in Mexican Spanish nicknames? This Mexican's take: Most nicknames derived from proper nombres are shortened versions of the original. Mexicans advance this process by employing the above-mentioned tricks. Such trends occur in languages that are evolving into newer, bolder tongues. So enjoy your pussy Billys from William and Cathys from Catherine, gabachos: Mexicans will take the linguistic wonder that is creating Lencho from Lorenzo any day.

Dear Mexican: Do Mexicans see us Filipinos as chinos or as hybrid Latinos? After all, we have Spanish surnames, we're brown and Catholic, we have quinceañeras (just several years after your chicas), and we started that grape strike Mexicans get credit for.

Fabulous Little Island Person

Dear FLIP: Gracias for allowing the Mexican to set the historical record straight. American history classes teach kiddies that César Chávez and his United Farm Workers brought justice to farm workers through boycotts and strikes in California's Central Valley during the 1960s. What the history books rarely mention is that Chávez and his Mexican followers first earned national prominence by joining an already existing grape huelga started by Filipino laborers. And what the history books never mention is that many of those pioneer Filipinos joined the UFW but eventually left owing to perceived discrimination at the hands of the union's Mexican-majority leadership and members. One of those Filipinos, former UFW vice-president Philip Vera Cruz, described in his 1992 memoir how the union became "very ethnocentric. When [UFW Mexican members] called out 'Viva la Raza' or 'Viva César Chávez,' they didn't realize that all these 'Vivas' did not include the Filipinos. As a matter of fact, they didn't include anyone but themselves.... Terms like that, you see, are not inclusive but divisive." On that note, FLIP: Yep, Filipinos are nothing more to Mexicans than chinos with tans.

Got a spicy question about Mexicans? Ask the Mexican at [email protected]. Those of you who do submit questions: They will be edited for clarity, cabrones. And include a hilarious pseudonym, por favor, or we'll make one up for you!

Better Call Saul: Why Lalo Is Called That When His Name’s Eduardo

Lalo is a somewhat not unusual nickname, being shorthand for a number of Spanish names reminiscent of Eladio, Gonzalo, and Eduardo. Although maximum English nicknames sound very similar to one every other (for instance, Rob is brief for Robert), Lalo is brief for Eduardo for a distinct reason why. This nickname has to do with the that means of the names slightly than how they’re stated. Eduardo way “rich guard,” whilst Lalo way “wealthy father or mother.” Since each names have very equivalent meanings, it is smart for the 2 to be related.
While this on my own explains why Eduardo is named Lalo, it in truth is going a bit deeper in conventional Better Call Saul style. Lalo is without doubt one of the cartel’s cash males, despatched north in Better Call Saul season 4 to assist the suffering drug industry run extra successfully. In Better Call Saul season 4, Lalo is regularly proven dealing with and moving huge sums of cash, slightly breaking a sweat when he has to acquire $7 million in money to pay his bail. Quite actually, Lalo is a wealthy father or mother. So, no longer handiest is Lalo a quick nickname for the nature, however the identify’s that means additionally completely fits the nature’s position within the tale. Although, to start with, it should appear ordinary that Eduardo Salamanca is named Lalo, the Better Call Saul villain’s nickname works on a good deeper stage than it in the beginning seems.

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When searching the name Lalo online, you’re bound to get a variety of results. Is it a Spanish nickname? An app where families can share memories? A popular Breaking Bad character? A sugarcane plant?

In short, it has quite a few different meanings!

For me, Lalo means a great deal, as it was my Dad’s nickname (pronounced in Spanish as “law-low”). What is Lalo a nickname for, you might ask? In Spanish, Lalo is a common nickname for anyone with the first name Eduardo (or Edward in English) along with Edu (the etymology of which is a bit more obvious). When I was struggling to find a name for my company, I spent hours trying to mash words together to come up with a name that popped like “Memory.ly,” “StoryView,” and “Reminisce.io.” I would say these names out loud, look for website domains, see if the social media handles were available, and check out if the words were trademarked – but none of them felt right. This process went on for weeks, until finally my wife turned to me and said, “Juan, you started this company because of your experience of losing your dad, why don’t you name it after him?”

Wow, all this time I’ve been racking my brain and there it was sitting right in front of me! The perfect name for my company: Jorge_Eduardo_Medina.com!

As lovely a name as that is, it’s a bit of a mouthful for a catchy app trying to get a new user’s attention, so I went with my father’s nickname, “Lalo”.

The next step was to try the name out with a few potential users, friends, co-workers, and neighbors. I got a range of feedback from, “What the (blank) does lay-low mean?!” to “I don’t get it, why not call it MemoryBox.com, or something more obvious?” While I could have decided upon a name that’s more on the nose like Ancestry.com, I wanted the company to have heart, to have a story behind it, and a name that showcased it. Even if it meant taking the road less traveled, I was willing to put in the work so future customers would understand what Lalo meant.

Is Lalo a Nickname for Eduardo?

After explaining the reasoning behind the company’s name, the number 1 question I got over and over again was why would Lalo be the nickname for Eduardo? Although there are lots of examples of English names that come with confusing nicknames, like “Jack” being short for “John” and “Dick” being short for Richard, it was a good question to look into. How did the name Lalo come to be? I searched online, asked relatives, checked Spanish language websites, and I was able to track down two leading theories:

Lalo in Spanish

The first theory is simply that Eduardo is difficult for children to pronounce, so “Lalo” became a catchy placeholder that was easier to say and better suited for a cute baby than the more formal Eduardo.

The second theory is that the etymology for Eduardo and Lalo pointed to an original meaning of both words meaning “rich guardian” or “guardian of wealth.” Edward from Old English Eadweard, literally means "prosperity-guard," from ead: "wealth, prosperity" + weard or ward: "guardian.” However, there’s still a gap in finding a similar etymology for “Lalo,” so I kept searching!

What Does Lalo Mean?

I tried to find a definition for Lalo that might give an explanation as to what the nickname Lalo means. My findings were…interesting to say the least.

Webster’s Dictionary defines Lalo la·​lo | \ ˈlä(ˌ)lō \ two-fol

1. a shoot that arises when the tip is removed from a sugarcane culm
2. Speech or the speech organs

Hmm, not exactly what I was looking for. But it’s safe to say my Dad wasn’t named after Sugarcane parts or speech organs.

The Lalo Nickname Around the Globe

With not even Webster’s Dictionary giving me the answers I was looking for, I did some research around the globe to see if I could find more clues. A few interesting tidbits came up:

• In Haiti, Lalo is a delicious Vegan meal featuring jute leaves (see here for the recipe).
• In the Philippines, Lala means Grandmother and Lolo means Grandfather. Not exactly Lalo but this powerful grandparent combo was used in a popularFilipino foodtruck in Philly.
• In India, Lalo is used as a name and nickname in Hindu culture.
• In France, I found a famous composer named…(wait for it)…Édouard Lalo.Although he was of Spanish descent, he was lucky enough to not be born in Latin America, where he would have risked spending his adult life being known as “Lalo Lalo.” It does have quite the ring to it, though!

What is Lalo?

Clearly, Lalo means something different to a lot of people around the world. While there are a variety of definitions and origins of the name Lalo, we hope to create our own meaning for it: a virtual space where you can spend time with family and make memories with those you love. There are many stories that make up the name Lalo, but only one that’s yours. How will you tell it?