LOL

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

Twins I met yesterday:
Mercedes & Porsche (POR-sha)

In their early 20s, I'd guess.

I didn't ask middle names, but now I wish I had.
I can only imagine what they could be.

My best guess:
Mercedes Diamond
Porsche Ruby

a) WDYT of the names? and b) what do you think their middle names could be?

Comments

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

Probably Marie and Lynn.

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

So long as it's not Porsche Boxster or Porsche 911, we're good.

[wistfuljen.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I was going to make a Porsche 911 joke haha

[sunshinefleur.livejournal.com]

I know a girl whose name is Mercedes...and her last name is pronounced like Benz, just spelled differently. I could never take her seriously after finding out her last name.

[frankmancini.livejournal.com]

hey dammit, diamond is a surname! i hate it when people bastardize my name and trash it up as a middle or first name.

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

My mum wanted to call me Mercedes. I'm glad Dad convinced her not to!

I don't hate Mercedes the way I used to and think it could actually be a nice name but the car connotations kind of ruin it for me. Porshe makes me think of Portia de Rossi.

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

I know sisters named Mercedes and Chanel. Expensive taste, that. :p

Separate, they're not bad. Not my style at all, but not bad. Middle names are either very boring and predictable or super-matchy.

[soulsplinter8.livejournal.com]

I love both names, but for very different reasons than most people would assume, I think.

Mercedes, when pronounced the way it should be pronounced (it's a Spanish name), is simply gorgeous. Portia (which is the way the name is spelled) has such strong Shakespearian associations for me that I don't really connect the name to the car much. Could be the separate spellings, though.

However...I would never, EVER use those names together. That just seems so tacky to me. And so obviously intended to be a tribute to the cars. Hence the tacky-ness.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

hah! they got away with that, though, because they're both legit names :)
although Chanel is the word for slut, if you ask in Tahiti!

About Mercedes and Porsche, I find it incredibly sad that human beings have been named after cars.. and I don't understand why sometimes Porsche is read as Portia ? Wouldn't it be Porsch-silent e?

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that about Chanel. Haha.

Until I read the note, I thought it was Porsche-silent e too. Perhaps this family is trying to be different :p

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Thing is, I've heard it before like that, for example, there's a Friends' episode where Joey pretends he owns a Porsche parked on the street, just to impress girls, and he pronounces it as Porsch-a, and even makes a point about it, because every one else around him is calling it Porsch-!
But the difference goes unexplained on the episode, so I never could figure it out!

[soundofbusiness.livejournal.com]

In German, the letter E is usually pronounced like a soft A, especially when used as the last letter of a word.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I really like Mercedes in spanish, Mercedes in English sounds so ugly.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

That's so weird, because when I was in junior high, which was 1990-1992, one of my church youth group leaders said she wanted to name twins that. I think she wanted to spell it Portia, however.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

Although in this case they're probably named after cars, both Mercedes and Porsche are legitimate names - Mercedes is an Italian girls' name and Porsche is a German surname.

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

Two syllables is the correct pronounciation. It's a German word and an e is pronounced like that when it's on the end of a word in German.

[rainylondonight.livejournal.com]

Ultimate trashy names. I cannot take anyone called Mercedes seriously. You always know their parents would be tacky people would could never afford those cars.

[tiphanism.livejournal.com]

The car Mercedes was named after a girl. It was a name for a human before it was a name for a car.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

since more than one person pointed this out, maybe I should underline that I did acknowledge they are both legit names :) (see first line in my reply)