[Opinions] Re: Venus or Aphrodite?
in reply to a message by queenv
It'd have to be Venus, I'm afraid, though I dislike both of them.
Aphrodite is too long to go unshortened, and it shortens to Aphro, like a wrong spelling of an old hairstyle.
Venus, apart from its tennis associations, was also the name of a very elderly lady I once knew; she was tiny and plain and had never married, but she ruled the local Scrabble club with an iron hand. So at least it happens IRL.
Aphrodite is too long to go unshortened, and it shortens to Aphro, like a wrong spelling of an old hairstyle.
Venus, apart from its tennis associations, was also the name of a very elderly lady I once knew; she was tiny and plain and had never married, but she ruled the local Scrabble club with an iron hand. So at least it happens IRL.