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Help[Opinions] Re: Guilty Pleasure Names I actually like but I’m sure BtN hates.
in reply to a message by Gaia
Jezebel is a cool name. I like it better than Isabel or Elizabeth (although I believe, without any evidence, just a hunch, that they are all probably from the same origin, and the connection was obscured). I've often wished people would just go ahead and use it. I mean, they use Eve, Delilah (which was stigmatized in the past), and now Lorelei and Lilith ... Mazikeen even ... what is the reason not to use Jezebel? Prudery? Fear of prudes? haha
Most of these seem fine actually ...
Ones on my own favorites:
March (gp of course because the verb)
Star
Amity
I could certainly see the appeal of most of them.
The ones I don't like:
Bluebell has that goofy bl-bl sound, plus weirdness ... the childish poetic name of the flower vs a literal bell that is blue, ding dong.
Tansy's kind of edgy and good for a character, tho I don't think I'd like it in real life
I hate Bay, makes me think of bae, "babe" - ew
Orchid means gonads, and sounds ugly, can't see any appeal
Flutura is sort of stupid in English - stagenamey maybe - but would still make a cool middle name.
Yale is goofy ... not something to name a person after, IMO. But it does have the sound of personal name, if it weren't for that.
Peace is a lovely concept for a name but just does not work as a name to address someone with imo, it's about like Silent or Silence. Or Ciao.
Sonnet is nauseating ... if not for the word, or if it meant something else I might like the sound of it.
I don't like Serendipity just because of the chirpy singsong aspect but it'd be okay as a MN because the meaning is cool.
Lilac just really does not sound good to me and is flimsy, I love the plant, just not as a name for people
- mirfak
Most of these seem fine actually ...
Ones on my own favorites:
March (gp of course because the verb)
Star
Amity
I could certainly see the appeal of most of them.
The ones I don't like:
Bluebell has that goofy bl-bl sound, plus weirdness ... the childish poetic name of the flower vs a literal bell that is blue, ding dong.
Tansy's kind of edgy and good for a character, tho I don't think I'd like it in real life
I hate Bay, makes me think of bae, "babe" - ew
Orchid means gonads, and sounds ugly, can't see any appeal
Flutura is sort of stupid in English - stagenamey maybe - but would still make a cool middle name.
Yale is goofy ... not something to name a person after, IMO. But it does have the sound of personal name, if it weren't for that.
Peace is a lovely concept for a name but just does not work as a name to address someone with imo, it's about like Silent or Silence. Or Ciao.
Sonnet is nauseating ... if not for the word, or if it meant something else I might like the sound of it.
I don't like Serendipity just because of the chirpy singsong aspect but it'd be okay as a MN because the meaning is cool.
Lilac just really does not sound good to me and is flimsy, I love the plant, just not as a name for people
- mirfak
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