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Help[Opinions] Re: Bear and Lion
in reply to a message by Anneza
I don't care for these at all so why should I put them on a birth certificate? What's sensible is very subjective. I find Lionel extremely silly, for example, and I think lots of men would rather be named Bear or Lion than the soft sounding Lionel. If you'd rather name someone Lionel or Bernard or see these names on someone that's fine, of course. Just saying that Bernard and Lionel will certainly not please EVERYONE else and personally I'd just rather meet a Lion.
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Sorry and all that, but if you want to meet a lion, or indeed a bear, may I suggest the zoo?
As for birth certificates, I know a woman whose parents would have named her Alexandra if their ln had been different, but they wanted something shorter, decided they'd always call her Zahn anyway, and put that on her birth certificate. They all lived happily until she started learning German at school; the rest of the class were delighted to discover that their classmate was a Tooth, but she felt strongly that her parents could have done better.
As for birth certificates, I know a woman whose parents would have named her Alexandra if their ln had been different, but they wanted something shorter, decided they'd always call her Zahn anyway, and put that on her birth certificate. They all lived happily until she started learning German at school; the rest of the class were delighted to discover that their classmate was a Tooth, but she felt strongly that her parents could have done better.
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Almost every name in the world means something funny in another language or has elements in it that mean something funny. Kara means 'penalty/punishment' in Polish, for example. Should we now avoid tons of perfectly fine names because they mean something bad or weird in a language that the child might someday learn? That would be impossible. Also Zahn is pronounced with an TS sound in German, not with a Z sound. Doesn't sound the same at all.
Lion doesn't even mean anything bad. It's not any different from other nature or animal names such as Brook, Summer, Autumn, Robin and Willow. Would you tell someone who wanted to meet a robin to go to a bird sanctuary? And yes, I know it's also a short form of Robert but it still sounds exactly like the name of the bird.
All I was saying is that naming is a matter of taste and different people will like different names. I wouldn't mind at all to be named Tiger or something but would dislike something really boring or overused like Caitlin or Alexandra. To each their own.
Lion doesn't even mean anything bad. It's not any different from other nature or animal names such as Brook, Summer, Autumn, Robin and Willow. Would you tell someone who wanted to meet a robin to go to a bird sanctuary? And yes, I know it's also a short form of Robert but it still sounds exactly like the name of the bird.
All I was saying is that naming is a matter of taste and different people will like different names. I wouldn't mind at all to be named Tiger or something but would dislike something really boring or overused like Caitlin or Alexandra. To each their own.
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