Malcolm

[julia-michelle.livejournal.com]

My fiance and I agreed that we both like Malcolm quite a lot. Unfortunately he's really hung up on using "Mal" as a nickname. (One guess why!)

What's your first thought if you met a kid who went by "Mal"?

I have french Canadian family, which may be part of my hang-up, but I just can't seem to get past it, since in so many languages it means bad/evil/trouble/pain/illness or similar.

Comments

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

My first thought if I met a kid that went by "Mal" would probably just be "that's cute". I mean, Capt. Mal Reynolds definitely occurred to me but it's not like I would necessarily assume the parents are Firefly/Serenity fans... and even so, I like Joss Whedon too so it's not like it's a bad thing.

I honestly did not think of the whole mal=bad thing even though my sister has a friend named Malhar whom they jokingly call "Badhar" AND I took 5 years of Spanish.