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Help[Opinions] Re: Marilyn & Regina
in reply to a message by peonini
I find them both over-ambitious, in different ways.
It's difficult to shake off the Monroe image from Marilyn, and she's hardly the kind of person one would expect to meet in today's world; plus, and no doubt this is just my bad luck, every Marilyn I've ever known has been, to say the very least, physically plain.
And Regina! Not just regal, but Latin. And I've never encountered it used in English, but in both Dutch and Afrikaans I have. And of course the -g- makes a hearty throat-clearing sound that is really fine in those languages of course but not elsewhere. If it shortens to Gina in English, as it surely would, then that helps. But I'd rather name a child either Jean or Georgina.
It's difficult to shake off the Monroe image from Marilyn, and she's hardly the kind of person one would expect to meet in today's world; plus, and no doubt this is just my bad luck, every Marilyn I've ever known has been, to say the very least, physically plain.
And Regina! Not just regal, but Latin. And I've never encountered it used in English, but in both Dutch and Afrikaans I have. And of course the -g- makes a hearty throat-clearing sound that is really fine in those languages of course but not elsewhere. If it shortens to Gina in English, as it surely would, then that helps. But I'd rather name a child either Jean or Georgina.
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