Fuck you Wolfgang Atreides is money. I’d follow that baby into battle.
Also, Leviathan? 100%. And my only problem with Dusti Rose is the “I”.
I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.
What a tragedeigh
Or tragideh if you’re Canadian
Is there a similar community for these here on lemmy?
Start one, call it lemmeigh
As you wish:
(Though I have no experience, does anybody have tips or something for running a community?)
I was solid confused about how these names are homophobic.
I heard so much racism/making fun about black names growing up, but like, white people names are some of the absolute goofiest shit I’ve ever heard.
I’m all for unique and clear identifiers for everything, including people, but jesus christ, imagine yourself in elementary school having a weird name. Why would parents choose a hard mode for their progeny?
I’m a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you’re an author. Perfect compromise.
I’ve always felt like the names we pick for ourselves ought to be more valid than the ones others choose for us. We should choose names for ourselves at different stages of life, and just tack them on in whatever order we like. You want something more fun than mummy and daddy gave you? Knock yourself out. Were your idiot parents drunk when they signed the papers? Well you can fix that at 12 if you like. We are who we choose to be and this the goddamn future.
I wouldn’t trust the 12 years old me to decide a name for myself.
Yup. Looking back at my first email address, I’m glad I didn’t change my name.
Sorry Trayden xXx PuSSy SlAyer 42069 is taken. You’ll have to pick another name.
Triniteigh
This one makes Jesus cry.
Dusti Rose sounds like a 40 year old chain smoker that looks 65
Why would you name your kid that
These are all amazing FFXIV pc names but not real names
Sigurd. Felix. Wolfgang. Atreides. No one can mess with that mf.
My daughter has a friend named Hayley. She is not amused when I spell it heighleigh
i’m so fucking happy sweden has laws preventing this stuff, names here have to be approved as not causing undue harm to the child
I could see a system like that being used to racist ends in America. “Please select from the pre-approved list of biblical names”
perhaps we have a list of “accepted variations of names” where that is what is legally recognized. Though the body will have to regulate it properly of course.
I’m having trouble finding articles about it because search engines have become terrible, but I’ve heard trans people talk about how the Swedish law has been used to transphobic ends (and, yes, racist ones too because common names in immigrant communities weren’t on the list). There’s few gender neutral names on the approved list and getting a gendered name approved for a name change is difficult and leaves the door open for outright transphobia - and legally changing your gender required surgical sterilization in Sweden up until the end of 2012.
My sister named her baby “Ecks-Fourmerlee-Twittre”
I have a hard time believing that.
They’re only stupid because you’re not used to them.
Some names in other English speaking cultures sound wild to us. Why should we care?
Such as?
I mean, hippie culture used names like “summer” and “rain” which are bonkers but we got used to it.
I watched an interview with someone who was named after a car part and they said it was fairly common, but I can’t find that interview to figure out what country it was anymore.
Old names that span cultures often have wildly different spellings, or pronunciations that don’t seem to make sense in English (like pretty much any Celtic name). It’s one thing to appropriate that culture, it’s another thing to say that names taken or derived from that culture are stupid. People move. People have parents or grandparents from other places. I don’t think it’s reasonable to say the name is bad just because it’s spelled unusually or is something that isn’t typically a name where we live.
yeah, but the difference here is that summer and rain were actual words. And that nobody uses them today, because they’re terrible names.
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?
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.
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…
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.
Leazel sounds like a fine name ngl, but others lol
Leazel the Weasel
Leaz the sleeze
Okay, but Raddix Zephyr and Leviathan are fucking cool names. Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides could be if you split it among like, two kids instead of one.
If they’re middle names for Sigurd then frankly who cares, it’s a cool name… Two middle names is common and so one more isn’t exactly going overboard
