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Help[Opinions] Re: Echo
in reply to a message by Canielle
When I first thought of Echo as a name for a person - around the time I discovered btn and the internet of names - I thought it seemed kewl like a ROG (refreshing overlooked gem) and all that. But on second thought ... thinking about a person actually going thru life named Echo ... I find myself thinking it's ghastly. I don't blame a person named it, but I wouldn't feel good about addressing someone as Echo. I can picture some guy pulling it off, but with its heavy metallic air of millennial hipster irony.
Eureka is not very namey imo. Kind of thoughtfully ugly ... again, the millennial hipster irony thing.
The names would work as a set, in a story. In real life, it seems like that's exactly what they're meant to do. Fill out the self-narrative of their "artsy" rich west-coast parents. I mean, I don't have a problem with that in itself. I probably like some names that the same people might have used but didn't. And people are who they are, and whatever we name kids it goes way beyond us, and ends up being different from how we fancied. But anyway these two names are just hitting the wrong notes for me right now. I don't like them.
- mirfak
Eureka is not very namey imo. Kind of thoughtfully ugly ... again, the millennial hipster irony thing.
The names would work as a set, in a story. In real life, it seems like that's exactly what they're meant to do. Fill out the self-narrative of their "artsy" rich west-coast parents. I mean, I don't have a problem with that in itself. I probably like some names that the same people might have used but didn't. And people are who they are, and whatever we name kids it goes way beyond us, and ends up being different from how we fancied. But anyway these two names are just hitting the wrong notes for me right now. I don't like them.
- mirfak
