In our culture, be careful what and how you do, say and dress. Because all is fair game when it comes to getting stuck with a nickname.
Our people were putting on plays a whole lot more back in the days before TV and the internet. One church decided to put on a play during Lent about the betrayal of Jesus. A lady tells me the story.
Guaha un taotao ni ma ayek na para guiya si Hudas.
(There was a man chosen for him to be Judas.)
Despues, annai esta monhåyan i play, humåhnanao ha' ma ågang gue' Hudas.
(Later, when the play was over, they kept calling him Judas.)
Åños yan åños despues, gigon ma li'e na mamamaila', ilek-ñiñiha i taotao, "Ei! Atan sa' estague' si Hudas!"
(Years and years later, as soon as they that he is coming, the people were saying, "Hey! Look because here is Judas!")
Yan magåhet, ti inestototba i taotao na ma å'ågang gue' Hudas.
(And it's true, that he wasn't disturbed that he was being called Judas.)
Lao annai sige mandångkulo i famagu'on-ña, ti yan-ñiha i famagu'on-ña na u ma ågang si tatan-ñiha Hudas.
(But when his children grew up, his children didn't like their father to be called Judas.)
Pues ha sangåne i parientes-ña yan atungo'-ña siha, "Båsta yo' ma ågang Hudas, sa' man pininite i famagu'on-ho."
(So he told his relatives and acquaintances, "Stop calling me Judas, because my children are hurt.")
Pues magåhet na mamåra i taotao ma ågang gue' Hudas gi me'nå-ña pat gi me'nan i pupbliko, lao entre hame ha' hunggan sige de in agang gue' Hudas!
(So it's true that the people stopped calling him Judas in front of him or in public, but among ourselves, yes, we kept calling him Judas!)
This remind me of the time, in my own parish, I had a religious play and chose a teenager to play the part of Jesus as he had nice, long hair already. For years he was called "Jesus" by his peers.
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