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Help[Opinions] Re: Melanie OR Melania
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I like Melanie, I feel it is the perfect name for a lovely person - it feels like a name of someone you can trust implicitly. It has the musicality of Melody without any kitsch. Rox is right, it's gentle, sweet, bright, wholesome as homemade lemonade.
BUT. Melania has the allure of the obscene associated with it, so I enjoy the thrill of that. It's more interesting to me. It's complex and rich; feels like the perfect name for a vampire. Melania really embodies the "darkness" of its own meaning, whereas Melanie is only "dark" the way the eye of a black-eyed susan flower is dark: surrounded by a halo of cheerful light.
Melania does sound vaguely disease-like, and it does put me in mind of a certain trophy wife. In theory I like the name Melania more, but if I had to choose one for a real human person, I would probably go with Melanie. I might enjoy the mob wife glamour of Melania but it does seem burdened with association right now.
BUT. Melania has the allure of the obscene associated with it, so I enjoy the thrill of that. It's more interesting to me. It's complex and rich; feels like the perfect name for a vampire. Melania really embodies the "darkness" of its own meaning, whereas Melanie is only "dark" the way the eye of a black-eyed susan flower is dark: surrounded by a halo of cheerful light.
Melania does sound vaguely disease-like, and it does put me in mind of a certain trophy wife. In theory I like the name Melania more, but if I had to choose one for a real human person, I would probably go with Melanie. I might enjoy the mob wife glamour of Melania but it does seem burdened with association right now.
