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HelpRe: Thoughts on mixed origin names in fiction?
in reply to a message by hebeCotogna
Lani Sansone works all right; Lani/Loni/Lonnie is common enough in sound across cultures.
However, the others seem to be overkill and not very believable. It feels like kind of an amateur thing when every or at least most every character has this special meaningful name and all the ethnicities of their family are equally represented without regard for how everything sounds together.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
However, the others seem to be overkill and not very believable. It feels like kind of an amateur thing when every or at least most every character has this special meaningful name and all the ethnicities of their family are equally represented without regard for how everything sounds together.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
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Yeah honestly I do that a lot XD I like having every name be meaningful and symbolic—names whose meanings form sentences or things like that—so I end up with a lot of really weird combos lmao
I definitely want to keep doing that, but your point about ‘all ethnicities [being] equally represented’ in the name was something I was concerned about, since most mixed race/nationality families don’t do that, and will just have their last name with the given names of the kids match the dominant culture of the country they’re living in, maybe with a MN or alternate name to pay respect to their original culture, so these names might feel unrealistic and hokey, and overly simplifies that experience 🤔
Anyway thank you for the input!
I definitely want to keep doing that, but your point about ‘all ethnicities [being] equally represented’ in the name was something I was concerned about, since most mixed race/nationality families don’t do that, and will just have their last name with the given names of the kids match the dominant culture of the country they’re living in, maybe with a MN or alternate name to pay respect to their original culture, so these names might feel unrealistic and hokey, and overly simplifies that experience 🤔
Anyway thank you for the input!
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