lemm.ee

3 points

6 months ago

yeah, but the difference here is that summer and rain were actual words. And that nobody uses them today, because they’re terrible names.

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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca

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1 point

6 months ago

Why is it better if a name is an English word? In fact isn’t that exactly why you’re saying they’re terrible names?

And it’s cute that you think those names fell out of fashion because they’re “bad” and that they won’t be back in a couple generation along with all the names that were popular at the same time as those ones.

In the meantime, why don’t we shit on names like “john” which is a stupid misspelling of the original Yohanan?

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2 points

6 months ago

probably beacuse im an english speaker growing up in america. Cognitive bias and all that.

I’m sure they’ll be back later, i’ll still hate them just a little though.

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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca

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1 point

6 months ago

Like… I agree they’re bad. But mostly because people are just stealing little snippets of cultures they know nothing about, just to make their kids names unique.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with a unique name, but don’t make a mockery of another culture in the attempt.

But probably avoid names that rhyme with dirty words…

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2 points

6 months ago

idk, i think it’s productive to make fun of names from time to time, i think we attach to them too much. It’s definitely too much to make fun of people with bad names though.

There are definitely a lot of other names in other cultures, but i would need some genuine context before hand. Otherwise im just going to assume it isn’t a real name, because people have a weird propensity to just fucking lie all the time for some reason.

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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca

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1 point

6 months ago

That’s reasonable. Unfortunately the kid (and maybe even the parent) doesn’t know. They just saw it somewhere and copied it. Like all the “eigh” instead of “ey” is Celtic, but the folks naming their kids probably don’t even know that. As a result they make all Celtic names look dumb by association. That said, I love a good Celtic name, so I might be one of those people who’d do it 😅

You’re right though, people take names too seriously. As long as a name isn’t gonna rhyme with something nasty, it’s fine.

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1 point

6 months ago

i genuinely cant imagine putting that much effort into naming someone only to completely fuck it up and for them to be stuck with a shitty name, or at least having a shitty name at one point for the entirety of their life.

Literally just stick to the normal names, pick one that people aren’t using at that point in time, or one that they are, literally who cares. Bonus points if you use the most common generic name because it provides slightly more anonymity.

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