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Help[Opinions] Re: Hester
in reply to a message by guru
Well... on paper it has hipness. A character name. I can picture an icily sleek Hester.
But if I try (and I'm trying really hard to imagine it as cool) to picture it as the name of anyone real, who I actually know, including the cutest young women and girls I know? It sounds as underdoggy and unfortunate as a chin zit and flat feet, and vaguely disagreeable too. It's not half as bad as Esther, but it's still dowdy and unappealing, in a way similar to (but not the same as) Hazel.
I guess maybe I just don't like the hissy, whispery sound. And I think the obvious Hawthorne reference seems too self-conscious. I think Easter sounds more "icily sleek" and suitable to real people in 2012. Even Vesta sounds about twice as realistic and usable to me.
But if I try (and I'm trying really hard to imagine it as cool) to picture it as the name of anyone real, who I actually know, including the cutest young women and girls I know? It sounds as underdoggy and unfortunate as a chin zit and flat feet, and vaguely disagreeable too. It's not half as bad as Esther, but it's still dowdy and unappealing, in a way similar to (but not the same as) Hazel.
I guess maybe I just don't like the hissy, whispery sound. And I think the obvious Hawthorne reference seems too self-conscious. I think Easter sounds more "icily sleek" and suitable to real people in 2012. Even Vesta sounds about twice as realistic and usable to me.
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