Pet Peeves

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

1. Putting hyphens, apostrophes, asterisks, ampersands, dollar signs, or whatever the hell else type of foreign material into a name. But just for kicks, I still want to see someone named Asdf Jkl; It would be pronounced Ayesdeeffspacejaykayellsemicolon. Nickname: Home Row.

2. The letters A and E being next to each other in a name. This is visually dissonant because one letter is the upside down mirror image of the other. ae ae ae ae ae ae. See? Those two letters together look like a damn jigsaw puzzle.

3. Names consisting of four or more words. Completely unnecessary. Maybe it's just me, but I always imagine the parents saying something like "His name is Henry Foster Wallace Delany," with this shit-eating grin on their face like, yeah, four names, beat that sucka. But maybe it's just me. Also, it seems like a sign of indecisiveness of some sort. But MIJM.

4. Replacing the letter I with Y when it messes up the pronunciation. Carolyna? Okay, fine. Leslye? Only if you mean Les-lie.

Along the same lines, when people come up with a unique spelling and then have to explain how to pronounce it. No, it's pronounced how it's spelled. If you want it to be pronounced that way, I suggest you change the spelling or else people are going to mispronounce it for their entire life. I imagine a scenario. "Your child's name is Peter?" "Excuse me, it's pronounced Tim."

5. Random H's stuck in the middle of names. Megahn. Meghan. Mehgan. Mhegan. Hmegan?

6. The name Nevaeh. Cut it out guys. It's not etuc.


Also, I've added a name to my list of finalist: Adolf Aloicious III (The third of what? I don't know yet, but I'll think of something.)

Comments

[politicking.livejournal.com]

my son has four names & to me, it was necessary... because he has both my last name & his father's. his father had a coronary when i said i didn't want him to have his last name, only mine, because we were not married. to keep the peace i stfu & just did it, but NEVER AGAIN.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm more against choosing to have two middle names. Two last names can be somewhat justified in some cases. I would've had four names if my parents decided to give me a middle name, but then I decided my mom's last name was kind of like an appendix, I was born with it, but I didn't really need it. So I dropped it and am down to a trim two. I mean, I love her and all, and she got to pick my first name, so we're all square.

[politicking.livejournal.com]

well my last name IS one of his middle names... because the father refused to have a "hyphenated last name" on "HIS" son.

my last name is a male first name, too... so i guess i could say his middle name is my grandfather's full name- which it is lol. but i didn't mean for that to happen.

with two middle names, one usually gets dropped anyway when filling out forms.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm too sleepy to figure out what you just said so I'll just nod my head until I fall asleep.

[politicking.livejournal.com]

lol my son's middle names are James Clark... Clark being my last name. i made it one of his middle names because my ex refused to sign the birth certificate if our son's last name was hyphenated (ridiculous).

but, Clark is also an acceptable male first name, so i guess if someone did not know my last name, they might not make the correlation .

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

What they were really after is Absidee. The spelling is just jackassery. But whatever, it's their kid's funeral.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

1. Hyphens are okay, apostrophes sometimes. But otherwise I agree.

2. This one doesn't cause me issue.

3. Agreed for the most part.

4. I could go either way, I don't much care about this one.

5. Depends on the name.

6. LOL. I like it as a sound/look, but it's overused.

7. I like Adolf (and would never use it) minus the connotations.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

1. I just want people to know that an apostrophes mean that you're leaving out a letter. If you can tell me what that letter is and why you're leaving it out, then I can clear the name.

2. Pet peeve specific to me.

6. Nah, the sound and look are regurgitation worthy. Admit it, the first time you saw that name six letters flashed through your head, WTF, followed by OIC.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

As if the name wasn't horrible enough, it had to sneak that in too.

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

i fucking love you.

[washironfucketc.livejournal.com]

Hah I actually like the way my son's name is spelled.
I've seen a lot of gaelic name with the ae.

Then again my pet peeve is naming little girls Ashley and Kelly :(

[sevensevenfour.livejournal.com]

1. I have a "useless" apostrophe in my middle name and it doesn't bother me.

2. I like the way the letters look beside each other.

3. I'm undecided on this. Part of me likes them and part of me doesn't. Right now my names consist of two middle names, but they aren't set in stone.

4. I don't like messed up pronunciation, but I do like the letter y. I would say I definitely prefer y over i.

5. Doesn't bother me depending on the name.

6. In complete agreement.

I actually really like the name Adolf. I wouldn't use it due to the connotations, but I love the sound of that name.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

1. It bothers me. I guess if you have to look at it every day you get used to it.

3. Pick one.

4. The letter I is just too plain Jane for some people. Y's do look a little more exotic.


Adolf is an awesome name. I already know what his Halloween costume would be.

[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

Hah, my name is Mikaeila.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

Bolding those two letters is like punching me in the face. You must really hate me.

[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

The effect I was going for was immediate seizure, but a punch works too. XD

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

I guess if you were going to stick an H somewhere in Megan, that's probably the best spot for it. Doesn't mean I like it, though.

[nothingbuthp.livejournal.com]

My name is Meghan, too, and I definitely like it more than without the h--even if no one can ever spell my name correctly!

[lava-cake.livejournal.com]

LOLz

[novangla.livejournal.com]

1. Amen.

2. If it's in the original language I think it's fine. Like, you can't spell Aeneas without two of those-- ae is legit and traditional, so it has my vote.

3. Ahahaha you will hate my intended baby names. My girlfriend is Peruvian and her family all have two middle names each, plus it's traditional to use both parents' names. So we have Gabriel Sebastian James Davis (Gomez) and/or Isabella Virginia Snow Davis (Gomez) (the Gomez being part of their full name but not on documentation because Jesus, five names).

4. Agreed. I actually think Carolyna is pushing it. I can see it for names that have had a Y at some points, like Ysabella. Also because lowercase y's in the middle of names irritate me, irrationally.

4b. Very much agreed.

5. I don't mind the h if it is (see above) part of the traditional spelling. Hell, my name is Brigid and I feel like a sham because the name was originally Brighid. The h is common in Irish Gaelic to change the pronunciation, so I dig it.

6. Agreed. It is, in face, lufwa.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

Holy hell, five. One more and you're a Mutombo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikembe_Mutombo).

Otherwise, I somewhat agree with you. Exceptions can be made for foreigners. However, if you're kid is going to live in America, you better not try to pull any of that funky spelling shit.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

Okay, I finally figured out what you're talking about. I couldn't figure out if prn meant porno or pronoun or what. FIXED

[tulips-and-lace.livejournal.com]

:) cute. agree with most of them except the ae thing, i'm kinda partial to that. and naming a kid adolf would weird me out but you wanna do it go for it.

so yea.
this made me laugh.

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

LOL that cracked me up :D

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Aloysius. Not Aloicious. :)

Otherwise, amen to all that, with the exception of 'ae' for reasons noted by other commenters.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

Other commentors blow.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that well-reasoned and thought-out remark. Bye now.

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

heh heh heh. You're welcome.

[queen-mab.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I have a friend named Meaghan. Thankfully her last name is only three letters and the easiest to spell and pronounce.

[qalanjo.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever met an Adolf in real life, but I've met an abundance of Adolfos. It's a nice name that I wouldn't ever use since it has been ruined by an annoying cook who was married yet always hit on me and try to seduce me at the restaurant I used to work at/Hitler/Dolphins ;(

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

Wait, I'm still confused from the other day. So your real name isn't mmmrorscharch?

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

I can assure you it isn't. It's not Tim Buck II either.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

Tim Buk III?

[makemefade.livejournal.com]

My name has a hyphon, and all it does is make people want to leave off the second half of it (which I hate). I always thought once I got married I might change it by just squishing it all together :)

"michael"

[facestepletdown.livejournal.com]

HHAAHAHAHHA i completley agree with the second one about a and e. i thought i was the only person out there.

Re: "michael"

[mmmrorschach.livejournal.com]

I'm glad there are other individuals out there as well-reasoned as myself.