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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Damn well better pick a good one? If you don't then what? Some loser on the internet makes fun of you or your kid? You think the kids are teasing each other when all their names are like this?

FWIW I think these people did put effort into these names, and in their bubble/micro-culture (which may not be the same culture from which they got the names), these names are great. Making fun of names is like making fun of clothes; at best it makes no difference and at worst you ignorantly insult someone's culture and heritage.

I kind of agree wrt some of these names, which likely make a mockery of someone else's culture - but it's up to that culture to decide if they think it's a mockery or not.

So you're free to do call these names and parents stupid, but then people like me will be there pointing out that, unless you're from one of these cultures, you're at least as stupid for making a stink about it.

But like you said, a mountain of a molehill on both sides.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

FWIW I think these people did put effort into these names, and in their bubble/micro-culture (which may not be the same culture from which they got the names), these names are great. Making fun of names is like making fun of clothes; at best it makes no difference and at worst you ignorantly insult someone’s culture and heritage.

i mean yeah, i could name my kid rape, because if i ever had a kid, it would be because i was raped. That would be a very clever and apt name. But also a completely and utterly shit name. The name is an intrinsically outwards facing property, you must both consider it's meaning to you, your family, and the world, carefully. It's a balance of all three.

I generally don't think culture is that significant of a factor, the primary aspect that matters is geographical region. You either have that name there, don't have it there, or it's becoming a thing there, or fading away. Usually, if it's becoming a thing, and it's culture related, that'll be immigration. Which tends to make it pretty apparent. It's different on the internet of course, i have no idea what source that list of names is from, but we also have no idea whether that's even real. We have no idea whether the tweet is from even exists. We know nothing about it, so it's safe to assume nothing about it, since we're in a vacuum.

I think you're free to name your child whatever you want, but i also think you're free to be made fun of relentlessly for naming your child a bad name.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're policing what makes a "good" name, which is just such a dumb thing to do. Like being style police.

We're not talking about naming kids after monstrous acts, we're talking about adding a couple extra letters to their name. Get a grip.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And being style police is completely and utterly useless, and serves no purpose.

Just like telling other people that they're bad at fashion, or simply don't understand style.

My point with that example was to illustrate that you have a clever name, be a very shitty name simultaneously. Much like changing the i in brian, to a y, or vice versa, depending on how you feel. it's all useless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Youre not getting it. There is no arbiter of what makes a shitty names and if there was you're not it.

You think names like Bryan are shitty, where they think names like Brian or John are shitty.

Who is right? Nobody or everyone. You're not making a point, you're complaining about the taste of someone you know nothing about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

you keep arguing with me like i think im the arbiter of names. I'm not, i just think it's funny, like most of the english language.

Did you know that that specific structure of text that i just used is a grammatically correct method of using words in the english language?

Although i suppose with your username, i shouldn't be surprised should i.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I keep arguing because you seem to keep justifying making fun of people's names, which is just such a wild take

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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