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in reply to a message by Christa S.
I love the range of opinions we get on this board, and I'm cool with it. I certainly wouldn't claim to have any kind of expertise on names in general; I guess Tristan is just one of the ones I feel strongly about.
I think it's a little odd that you met/came across only female Tristans for however long, given that I've never even heard of one, but hey. Weirder things have happened. I imagine that if I was suddenly informed that something I'd always thought was a female name was actually masculine it'd be pretty strange.
Everyone has names that they think are too soft or too hard, or don't fit. I'll never quite be able to get my head around Leto being feminine, for instance. I'm sorry if I overreacted; it's just that Tristan happens to be one that I literally never imagined could be feminine until relatively recently. All the associations I have are male.
Also, because I have Wikipedia open:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan - Sir Tristan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_and_Iseult - The romance of Tristan and Iseult
out of which have been made
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_und_Isolde - The Wagner opera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_%26_Isolde_%28film%29 - The film with James Franco in it
I can't say I'm much of an opera fan and I've yet to see the film, but the story of Tristan and Iseult (or Yseult, or Isolde, or Isond) is one of my favourite stories from the King Arthur corpus. Sir Tristan is a wonderful character.
I think it's a little odd that you met/came across only female Tristans for however long, given that I've never even heard of one, but hey. Weirder things have happened. I imagine that if I was suddenly informed that something I'd always thought was a female name was actually masculine it'd be pretty strange.
Everyone has names that they think are too soft or too hard, or don't fit. I'll never quite be able to get my head around Leto being feminine, for instance. I'm sorry if I overreacted; it's just that Tristan happens to be one that I literally never imagined could be feminine until relatively recently. All the associations I have are male.
Also, because I have Wikipedia open:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan - Sir Tristan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_and_Iseult - The romance of Tristan and Iseult
out of which have been made
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_und_Isolde - The Wagner opera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_%26_Isolde_%28film%29 - The film with James Franco in it
I can't say I'm much of an opera fan and I've yet to see the film, but the story of Tristan and Iseult (or Yseult, or Isolde, or Isond) is one of my favourite stories from the King Arthur corpus. Sir Tristan is a wonderful character.
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Thanks for the references... when I have time tonight, will definitely go through them.
I lived in So Cal for 19 years, and there was a senior girl in my high school (when I was a freshman) who's name was Tristan Paige... her other siblings were: Demri (girl), Tasmin (girl), Chase (boy), and another weird T girl name that I cannot remember. As you can see, she came from a unique family... but this girl impressed me as she had it all... looks, brains, talent, sweet and kind... etc... so I began to adore the name Tristan after her. She had a niece named after her... so these are the only two girls I have ever known that have this name. Then I moved to Utah... and there are NO Tristan's (boys or girls) that I know of... as you can imagine, Utah is a culture shock from So Cal, and everyone seems to do whatever everyone else does here... so we have an over abundance of Emma's, Jacob's, and names that have been combined (ie Jennalynn)... so there is not much variety here.
Thanks for the further education.
I lived in So Cal for 19 years, and there was a senior girl in my high school (when I was a freshman) who's name was Tristan Paige... her other siblings were: Demri (girl), Tasmin (girl), Chase (boy), and another weird T girl name that I cannot remember. As you can see, she came from a unique family... but this girl impressed me as she had it all... looks, brains, talent, sweet and kind... etc... so I began to adore the name Tristan after her. She had a niece named after her... so these are the only two girls I have ever known that have this name. Then I moved to Utah... and there are NO Tristan's (boys or girls) that I know of... as you can imagine, Utah is a culture shock from So Cal, and everyone seems to do whatever everyone else does here... so we have an over abundance of Emma's, Jacob's, and names that have been combined (ie Jennalynn)... so there is not much variety here.
Thanks for the further education.
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