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1. Does having "gai" in it make it unusable, even though it's not prounounced like Gaylord or Galen?
2. Will it surge in popularity because of Battlestar Galactica, even though the character is so unsavory? Will anyone care or know that it was also Julius Caesar's first name?
3. In terms of its Latin origin, this is really the same name as Caius. Which do you like?
4. WDYT of the name?
My opinion: I love the sound and the idea of this name, but I don't think I'd be able to shake how pretentious it seems.
1. Does having "gai" in it make it unusable, even though it's not prounounced like Gaylord or Galen?
2. Will it surge in popularity because of Battlestar Galactica, even though the character is so unsavory? Will anyone care or know that it was also Julius Caesar's first name?
3. In terms of its Latin origin, this is really the same name as Caius. Which do you like?
4. WDYT of the name?
My opinion: I love the sound and the idea of this name, but I don't think I'd be able to shake how pretentious it seems.
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Date: 2006-11-22 04:33 pm (UTC)Not really planning on using it myself, but it *might* be growing on me.
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Date: 2006-11-22 04:32 pm (UTC)Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that there were some letters that were interchangeable in Latin. So, Julius would also be spelled Iulius, and so on, and U's and V's were interchangeable. In inscriptions we normally see V instead of U and I instead of J. (also because I's and V's are easier to etch into stone? ;) )
I think that Caius was the more ancient spelling, and then Caius and Gaius co-existed... we find the same person's name spelled both ways in different places.
But yeah, even the Romans were Eweneek sometimes! I remember reading in some book that there was a new fad for a while to use "o" instead of "au" - so someone named Claudius would become Clodius. Weird!
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Date: 2006-11-23 02:38 am (UTC)Publius Claudius Pulcher chose to renounce his patrician rank. After gaining the consent of the Roman Senate, and with the connivance of Caesar, he succeeded in being adopted into the plebeian branch of his gens by P. Fonteius in 59 BC, thus becoming Publius Clodius Pulcher. On December 10, 59 BC, he was elected Tribune of the Plebs, an office for which patricians were ineligible.
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Date: 2006-11-22 04:34 pm (UTC)It IS pretentious, I agree. But about the "gross" thing - I think our accents are totally different ;)
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Date: 2006-11-22 05:13 pm (UTC)I wouldn't say it rhymes with gross, but it stars and ends in the same letters, so I think of it.
I'm ROSE, though, and I always think people are saying my name when they're saying "gross" even those the -se in Rose is more like a z... maybe I have bad ears. :S
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Date: 2006-11-22 04:33 pm (UTC)Gaius is too wrapped up with BSG in my head. Plus it sounds too much like Gaia, the feminine version, which I really do not like.
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Date: 2006-11-22 04:36 pm (UTC)Yup, BSG is the reason why I even remembered this name. I really wonder if there'll be thousands of baby Gaiuses running around in the next few years!
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Date: 2006-11-23 02:47 am (UTC)I think I'm starting to like Caius better too.
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Date: 2006-11-22 04:56 pm (UTC)i think the only negative connotation to it is Gaius Longinus, the man who speared Christ's side at the crucifixion. i'm not christian, so it doesn't bother me, but. if you are, it might. don't know how the feeling is on that figure, i know he was cursed for it or something.
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Date: 2006-11-22 05:23 pm (UTC)Who cursed him? Because that's silly...he was just fulfilling a prophecy.
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Date: 2006-11-22 08:01 pm (UTC)i'll be honest, most of my knowledge of the Christian stories comes from World of Darkness/White Wolf tabletop RPGs, and Yahweh gets a little curse happy, in those books.
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Date: 2006-11-23 02:42 am (UTC)True - "Guy" is a fun nn. Thanks!
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Date: 2006-11-22 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-22 05:50 pm (UTC)I hope most adults and young adults would know how to pronounce it, but I have bad visions of a kindergarten class looking at the spelling of his name and mangling it.
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Date: 2006-11-23 02:45 am (UTC)(and, to do a bit of promotion: Battlestar Galactica is the only TV show I watch, and let me tell you, it's pretty darn good ;) )
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Date: 2006-11-23 12:04 am (UTC)I do think Gai will get teased. Where I am, kids use the word "gay" a lot.
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