Pet Peeves
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babynames1. 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.)
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.)
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Date: 2007-07-01 05:58 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-07-01 01:12 pm (UTC)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.