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Help[Opinions] Re: Keats
in reply to a message by Arcadia
Katharine nn Keats would strike me as really cool, but I'm much more partial to Kitty as a nickname, personally. :)
Makeda's another option, but that's...trendy. Even if it's historical. :/ Keturah's a stretch, but it could work. Keitha and Keithia, the same.
Keats seems like the best option, since Keaton's much too masculine to my ears; all I hear is Buster Keaton (not a bad thing, but not the image I want when I think of a name for a girl, personally). And I think Keats could grow on me--it sounds like someone I might meet at my all-women liberal arts college. ;)
I don't find your list too mis-matched at all. They all strike me as being nicely out of the mainstream; to me, they've got this image of being actually rather counter-culture-bohemian instead of poseur. You know, the stuff that all those little Scarlets seem to be yearning for. DIY and Buddy Holly glasses without being pretentiously look-at-me! about it.
Array (who is stuck with yearning-for-boho Scarlet Carson, lol)
I want to be be more like a river--
Less like a wall--
Not trying to hold back these feelings at all.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
Makeda's another option, but that's...trendy. Even if it's historical. :/ Keturah's a stretch, but it could work. Keitha and Keithia, the same.
Keats seems like the best option, since Keaton's much too masculine to my ears; all I hear is Buster Keaton (not a bad thing, but not the image I want when I think of a name for a girl, personally). And I think Keats could grow on me--it sounds like someone I might meet at my all-women liberal arts college. ;)
I don't find your list too mis-matched at all. They all strike me as being nicely out of the mainstream; to me, they've got this image of being actually rather counter-culture-bohemian instead of poseur. You know, the stuff that all those little Scarlets seem to be yearning for. DIY and Buddy Holly glasses without being pretentiously look-at-me! about it.
Array (who is stuck with yearning-for-boho Scarlet Carson, lol)
I want to be be more like a river--
Less like a wall--
Not trying to hold back these feelings at all.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
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Hmm... never thought of Katharine nn Keats, and I must admit, I like it. Ever since I read through the "daughters named after mothers" post below I have been thinking "hmm... that is cool." One of the reasons I like Kateri as a mn is that it is a derivative of Katherine...
I think for now that's how it is going to work. Katherine MN nn Keats. Nesrin might need a new mn, or not. But it does seem excessive to have two girls combos with Katherine in there... Maybe Nesrin can have Eustacia and Katherine can get something with a bit more flair.
I'm glad my names strike you as actually counter-culture, lol, that is cool. I wouldn't call Scarlet Carson pouser-ish. It's a movie/comic reference, and therefore geek-awesome. Because geeks are awesome. Because I say so (and I am one).
~ Arcadia ~
I think for now that's how it is going to work. Katherine MN nn Keats. Nesrin might need a new mn, or not. But it does seem excessive to have two girls combos with Katherine in there... Maybe Nesrin can have Eustacia and Katherine can get something with a bit more flair.
I'm glad my names strike you as actually counter-culture, lol, that is cool. I wouldn't call Scarlet Carson pouser-ish. It's a movie/comic reference, and therefore geek-awesome. Because geeks are awesome. Because I say so (and I am one).
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I'm glad you like Katherine nn Keats! I think it has just the right balance of tradition and flair, especially since I see elements of each in both the nn and full name. :) I love Kateri, too, but for Blessed Kateri Tekawitha, since I'm not a Katherine myself, lol.
...Kateri nn Kitty. Hmm. I still like Katharine nn Kitty more, but that's got some snazz to it, I think.
Katherine Eustacia's an impressive, impressive name, but I think Nesrin Eustacia's even lovelier (especially because I wasn't quite digging Nesrin Katherine's repetitive N). Katherine might need something so out-there that the entire thing is set on its ear. Katherine Mafalda. Katherine Opus (but ugh, Opus-the-comic). Katherine Island (I can see it--Keats Island, Private Eye). Katherine Irony. Katherine Sleeping-Dove-Smiles (oh, wait, that's a bit more me, I think). Katherine Firefly.
Yeah, there's something about Scarlet Carson that screams a pair of clunky glasses and a deep red rose on a copy of Naked Lunch to me, but I'm afraid of Scarlet(t)'s burgeoning popularity, heh. It's solely a film reference in this case (though if she had a twin called Violet Carson, I could claim movie/comic, lol), but I'd like to think that that fact (and the double name part) sets off the intensely now aspect of Scarlet(t).
...Why is it that I can write all of this without a thought, but I can't even get a paragraph of the thing I actually need to be doing? *sigh*
Array
I want to be be more like a river--
Less like a wall--
Not trying to hold back these feelings at all.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
...Kateri nn Kitty. Hmm. I still like Katharine nn Kitty more, but that's got some snazz to it, I think.
Katherine Eustacia's an impressive, impressive name, but I think Nesrin Eustacia's even lovelier (especially because I wasn't quite digging Nesrin Katherine's repetitive N). Katherine might need something so out-there that the entire thing is set on its ear. Katherine Mafalda. Katherine Opus (but ugh, Opus-the-comic). Katherine Island (I can see it--Keats Island, Private Eye). Katherine Irony. Katherine Sleeping-Dove-Smiles (oh, wait, that's a bit more me, I think). Katherine Firefly.
Yeah, there's something about Scarlet Carson that screams a pair of clunky glasses and a deep red rose on a copy of Naked Lunch to me, but I'm afraid of Scarlet(t)'s burgeoning popularity, heh. It's solely a film reference in this case (though if she had a twin called Violet Carson, I could claim movie/comic, lol), but I'd like to think that that fact (and the double name part) sets off the intensely now aspect of Scarlet(t).
...Why is it that I can write all of this without a thought, but I can't even get a paragraph of the thing I actually need to be doing? *sigh*
Array
I want to be be more like a river--
Less like a wall--
Not trying to hold back these feelings at all.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
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