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Help[Opinions] Re: Jack and Kepler
in reply to a message by SJayne
Kepler is the name of a really cool astronomer, and it's been on my mind lately - I think I'm going to give it as a name to my sim's next kid. The sibset will then be
Hermes
Kepler
Gossip
But I'd be down for using it in real life, too. Kepler was brave as hell! And I like the sound. I wouldn't use it if I only knew it as a walking track, though, but that's just me. Isn't it nice that I'm not calling it ridiculous that you like it? I'm such a saint. Santa Emma. Where's my halo?
Jack is, like, a boring substanceless name, and I don't get what people like about it so much. It's a flimsy artifice upon which a vague concept of spunkiness rests. It does nothing for me. People who like it more as a nickname don't count nicknames on the numbers of letters and syllables, but on whether you can fill the name up with meaning or not. You can't fill Jack up with meaning - it has no etymology. John can be filled up with meaning. Some people don't care if you can fill up a name with meaning or not, but I do, because that's the place where my entire interest in names resides. So, no stamp of approval from me. The best I can say for it is that it isn't Jackson, which is even more vapid. I wonder if I'd put it a bit more politely if you hadn't called my POV ridiculous! We shall never know.
It doesn't stand out too much from any individual one of your names, though none of them are as casual as Jack - they're both the same sort of self-conscious middlish-class naming. But as a group, wow, there's so much more dignity and gravitas in your other favorites - they're like big tall trees with far-extending invisible roots, where Jack is some dry discarded christmas tree.
Hermes
Kepler
Gossip
But I'd be down for using it in real life, too. Kepler was brave as hell! And I like the sound. I wouldn't use it if I only knew it as a walking track, though, but that's just me. Isn't it nice that I'm not calling it ridiculous that you like it? I'm such a saint. Santa Emma. Where's my halo?
Jack is, like, a boring substanceless name, and I don't get what people like about it so much. It's a flimsy artifice upon which a vague concept of spunkiness rests. It does nothing for me. People who like it more as a nickname don't count nicknames on the numbers of letters and syllables, but on whether you can fill the name up with meaning or not. You can't fill Jack up with meaning - it has no etymology. John can be filled up with meaning. Some people don't care if you can fill up a name with meaning or not, but I do, because that's the place where my entire interest in names resides. So, no stamp of approval from me. The best I can say for it is that it isn't Jackson, which is even more vapid. I wonder if I'd put it a bit more politely if you hadn't called my POV ridiculous! We shall never know.
It doesn't stand out too much from any individual one of your names, though none of them are as casual as Jack - they're both the same sort of self-conscious middlish-class naming. But as a group, wow, there's so much more dignity and gravitas in your other favorites - they're like big tall trees with far-extending invisible roots, where Jack is some dry discarded christmas tree.
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