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Help[Opinions] Re: Bristol
in reply to a message by Billina
It's one of those names I hate, that I can see the appeal of if I try. It's like hearing Laurel and then Yanny ... or seeing two profiles change into a vase. But hideous Bristol comes to me naturally, and I have to strain a little to perceive not-icky Bristol.
To see it as nice, I have to deliberately set aside heaps of negative word/sound/image associations, and just think of it starting like Briseida and ending like Carol and sounding like Crystal. As if it were just a surnamey namesound, sexless and conceited in the fashionable way, like Harlow or Chandler or Paxton or Kendall. I can see how some people like that kind of thing. But even then it's nms. I hardly ever like Br- anything, and my word associations don't stay set aside.
- mirfak
To see it as nice, I have to deliberately set aside heaps of negative word/sound/image associations, and just think of it starting like Briseida and ending like Carol and sounding like Crystal. As if it were just a surnamey namesound, sexless and conceited in the fashionable way, like Harlow or Chandler or Paxton or Kendall. I can see how some people like that kind of thing. But even then it's nms. I hardly ever like Br- anything, and my word associations don't stay set aside.
- mirfak
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