Six month old twins

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

I know six month old twins named:

Kali (Callie) and Kadince (Cadence).

I love the name Cadence, but hate that spelling. I also prefer Kaylie to Callie.

What do you think?

Comments

[ophiomancer.livejournal.com]

I would feel a great swell of pity for anyone unfortunate enough to be named Kali.

[namegirl.livejournal.com]

wouldn't Kaylie be pronounced Kayley? I've always been under the impression Callie was Cal-ee

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

Kaylie and Kayley are the same to me, while Callie is Cal like the Mal in Mallory, then the ee sound.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

I think they're both horrible and juvenile sounding. They are definitely going to be dated. Yuck.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

I thought the OP was saying she preferred the name Kaylie to the name Callie... not that it was a different spelling of the same name

[krosp.livejournal.com]

I thought that Kali would be pronounced like Carly

[krosp.livejournal.com]

oh but that's probably cos I'm australian :P

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

You're right!

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

How would you pronounce Carly? It might be hard to translate through the accents, but I'm imagining you'd pronounce Carly as Cah like I would say cot, with a dropped r, lee.

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

Cot minus the t, i mean.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

I think you're right...
If I tried to write it phonetically it would be like

kaaah-lee

Or, "Car" with the "r" dropped off.

Cot sounds nothing like "aah" to me but if I try to think of American accents then it makes sense :P I find it so weird when people on here say something like, "Rosana is pronounced rose-ONNA" because I think "ahn" and "on" are extremely different.

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

It's funny b/c I know how to write in the phonetic alphabet but I can't do it on LJ, and not everyone knows it so it wont help anyway.

Yes, though, cot is like car to me, with different ending syllables. So Carly/Kali to you sounds like Car or Collie to me.

Ahn and on to me are completely the same, although Ahn (Like Cahhh, like your version of Kali) isn't how I'd pronounced Rosanna, I would say anna like...hmm...panda. If that helps, probably not. :)

Variations of ah are so different within dialects, my boyfriend is from Southern New Jersey and he pronounces on as awn, like awning (if that helps, once again.)

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Yeah that all makes sense. Haha yeah I studied linguistics about 4 years ago and learned the IPA but I can't remember it all... but the funny thing about this is that I can tell what sounds you are referring to in all your examples, but only because I'm trying to think in your accent and not my own. I would pronounce "law" and "lor" the same way, so "aw" has more of an o sound!

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

Callie is ok, but I'm sorry, I really hate the name Cadence. Maybe it's because I was in marching band, but I just do not like it as a name. It's even worse spelled Kadince.

[trissyd.livejournal.com]

Hah - I graduated with a girl named "Cali"

[satunian.livejournal.com]

Actually I believe Kali and Callie are two different names. Callie would be of Greek origin meaning beautiful whereas Kaliis a Sanskrit name meaning, according to my books, "energy; black goddess; time the destroyer", or Hawaiian for "hesitating"

I actually really like both (Kali or Callie)

Don't care for Cadence and Kadince is even worse, IMO

[satunian.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with the name Kali?

[adamant-turtle.livejournal.com]

I REALLY hate it when people bastardize word names...

[ophiomancer.livejournal.com]

Other than the fact that Kali is a terribly violent and prominent Hindu goddess whose sole purpose is massacer and destruction? That's like naming your kid Zeus or Loki, except this one still has temples and followers. I wouldn't want my kid associated with that.

[ophiomancer.livejournal.com]

Cali's not bad. See the comment under this one for why I don't like Kali.

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

My dad's step-daughter did that to her daughter. >_

[elsh.livejournal.com]

Haha, I agree! WORD, not name. And spelled like Kadince it's even more atrocious.

[elsh.livejournal.com]

Especially when the word should have never been used as a name.