I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.
What a tragedeigh
Or tragideh if you’re Canadian
Is there a similar community for these here on lemmy?
Start one, call it lemmeigh
Brilleighant.
As you wish:
(Though I have no experience, does anybody have tips or something for running a community?)
I just made one. Idk how to link it but you can find it on my profile.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
This one is truly a… Mystereigh
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
You’re just sentencing your child to forever have to spell out their name to strangers
Meh, depending on the last name that might happen anyway. I just spell out my last name by default now.
Trying to be Irish without setting foot in the old country for 5 generations
“It’s spelled Seamus, but I go by James”
It doesn’t even sound Irish, it just sounds extremely white American
Reminds me of the article about black Americans visiting Africa and being devastated that they weren’t “welcomed home” but rather just treated as visiting American tourists.
It’s cute
I worked under someone at an old job who named his son Jaxon. And kept pictures Jaxon drew and signed on the wall of his office. So every time I needed something from him, I would have to see Jaxon’s name in his office. And I hated it.
Was his middle name Mississippi?
Did Jaxon use Jaxon Crayons?
I have no idea.
We might have the same employer! Or at least I hope so, I can’t imagine two different sets of parents deciding that “Jackson” is just too boring
It was a long time ago and he quit before I did, so doubtful.
honestly, jaxon is almost acceptable. Much like bryan with a y.
Did Jaxon have cybernetic arms?
It reminds Big Literacy that they can’t control our minds
Because you hate your child but don’t believe in abortion. Just yesterday, I avoided spelling my preferred email on a phone call because a company already had a different address on file.
Ex and I once joked about this subject. We decided it’d be funny to named an unwanted child Paisley.
Mike Hawk
Jenna Talya
Or just James, but spelled Chaymz
To keep in line with the conversation thread, Paisleigh
Whoa! Calling you out on some pretty blatant homophonophobia here!
I can’t read it as anything other than trinitaaay
But the pronunciation of Triniteigh would have the sound like “neighbor” so wouldn’t be said like Trinity (tee)…
Not necessarily. Think Leigh and its relatives (e.g., Ashleigh, Kayleigh, Charleigh*)
*made that one up but still,
Um, I had someone in my class named Kayleigh, and it was indeed pronounced Kay-lay. I pronounce all these like “lay”, I don’t understand the example.
Hm. In my experience, -eigh has always been pronounced -ee. In most cases, Leigh is a homophone of Lee, as it comes from an English word meaning “meadow”, and you’ll find many pronunciation guides that confirm this. Not that I find it all that intuitive, I would have assumed it to be pronounced -lay myself, like sleigh or eight. English is dumb like that, and if you or anyone else wants to pronounce it -lay, nothing should stop you.
Actually
it’s pronounced Trinitay
genuinely, i think committing crimes against parents of those names should be legal, to a degree.
It’s actually fucking obtuse.
I was solid confused about how these names are homophobic.
It’s to add a little uniqueness, and avoid them being the 14th Erica in the classroom, but not going so far as to not give them one of the “normal” names.
Or they just think it looks prettier. It doesn’t have to be about accomplishing something beyond “I like how that looks”.
I feel like “my child will be burdened by this for the rest of their life” wins over “it looks cool”
You’d be surprised how little it actually matters. It just means they have to spell it for people occasionally.
My name isn’t common here, but it’s also perfectly well known and spelled in the traditional sense.
I have to spell it for people, and often use a middle name for takeout orders. That’s about the extent of the burden of having an unusual name.
My last name is also perfectly common, and I need to spell it as well.I’ve seen a lot more “burden” on people with alphabetically late names, since they often are last in line for stuff.
Fuck you Wolfgang Atreides is money. I’d follow that baby into battle.
Also, Leviathan? 100%. And my only problem with Dusti Rose is the “I”.
Dusti Rose sounds like a matricidal professional wrestler.
Definitely a stripper name.
Or some telsel product
Gave me folk singer vibes
Yeah it made me think they wanted to name their son Dusty but had a girl, and tried to feminize it lol
Sounds like a bit actor for a Weight Watchers ad
Good luck following into battle an asthmatic baby armed with a mall katana who is easily felled by a whiff of peanuts
I’m all for unique and clear identifiers for everything, including people, but jesus christ, imagine yourself in elementary school having a weird name. Why would parents choose a hard mode for their progeny?
I’m a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you’re an author. Perfect compromise.
We gave our daughter a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant. We just wanted a name that wasn’t religious but still normal enough that she wouldn’t get bullied for it (she got bullied anyway). We realized later that it actually made sense in terms of her ancestry because her mother has a plant name, her grandmother has a plant name and her great-grandmother had a plant name. One long lineage of plant names.
Dude I see you around here on the regular, so I’ll mention that this is ironic for me to read this, because we also named our daughter an old, obscure but “real” name that is also a plant (a flower, specifically).
It’s from France, so I asked a French friend before using it if it was ok to use and not a weird name, and they said “sure it’s ok, but it’s like an old grandma’s name no one uses anymore.” And that’s when I knew it was the one!
Yep, that was basically our reasoning. Vintage name, so it’s memorable, but not a weird one and spelled normally.
And absolutely not religious.
Wait, it’s all bullying?
She was bullied for other reasons. Most significantly being as eccentric as her parents.
That does tend to happen to children that are half human and half flying squid
At least she can spray ink on her enemies and then fly away.
Good tactic for almost any situation in life imo
Honestly being bullied for a weird name just feels like victim blaming. It’s just someone else’s shitty behaviour we’re expected to dance around? That was the one problem with the name.
I don’t disagree, but it’s also a parental responsibility, in my opinion, to help your child avoid bullying. It’s not possible to avoid entirely, but there are definitely ways to make it worse. And a weird name is one of them.
Give a kid a weird name and the bully will pick on them but set a bully on fire… no… wait, I think I got that wrong.
It may be someone else’s problem, but as a parent , you should consider your child’s well being when naming them, and try to avoid obvious pitfalls
I mean yes obviously, but still. Just angering me we have to fight human shittiness with something like this
Always has been.
a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant
Describing it like that makes it really tempting to try and guess the name. Out of respect for your and her privacy, I won’t, though.
Okay, I admit it. Her name is Cannabis Indica.
What an awful parent you are, doxxing your own kid on the internet!
Never post while high.
Same boat. I think I guessed it, and it’s absolutely killing me knowing I’ll never know if I’m right. But also, my brain itch doesn’t trump doxxing a person (or even a squid) or their kid.
Ngl having “Wolfgang” as an example for a weird name was really strange to read for me… but I’m German.
It’s a pretty common practice where I live for a kid to be named after someone for their first name, but go by their middle name. So I think it’s perfectly fine to have one normal name and one weird name in any order.
A. John Smith is an accountant. Atreyu J. Smith is a musician who wears leather pants and some sort of studded headband.
Let me introduce you to Marijuana Pepsi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck
The kicker is her parents and siblings have normal names.
In the fall of 2019, Vandyck sponsored the Marijuana Pepsi Scholarship for first-generation African-American students at UW–Whitewater.
If someone with a brand name… name… starts a same-industry business in their name, or offers a scholarship for nazis, I wonder what kind of recourse the original brand has.
Now I’m really curious about how people call her in day-to-day life.
That may be one case where a non medical PhD would be justified in just going by Doc
mari, or mary.
Imagine you’re a seven years old little fat kid and your name is Leviathan
That one I actually like. It’s easy to short it to Levi in public, but still be able to flex among friends.
I guess if everyone has a weird name, that doesn’t matter. Maybe kids don’t make fun of weird names anymore. Who knows, maybe it’s the Johns and Marys who get made fun of for having uninteresting names.
My name is a standard name, but super uncommon here. It’s not that bad, since I got picked on about as much as anyone else. It’s not like they won’t just because your name is unremarkable.
Narcissism
If you don’t get bullied for your name, you’ll just get bullied for something else. At least with the name you can blame it on your parents, maybe. Kids are assholes.
Ok but Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides goes pretty hard.
Well, it TRIES pretty hard 😜
Except a kid like that automatically has a free pass for eternally being pissed about their father and their father before them not also having had that name so they could be "… the third’!
But now they can yell “I am Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides, First of my name”!
Definitely has some Rogue Trader energy to it.
I heard so much racism/making fun about black names growing up, but like, white people names are some of the absolute goofiest shit I’ve ever heard.
I’m not one to judge parents baby names, but Merricka??
Fuck yeah!
🫡🦅🍔
Can’t forget 🔫
I was considering it, but didn’t wanna shoot the burger.
Triniteigh
This one makes Jesus cry.
Makes me cry too…
Look, it’s the holy Triniteight! Or something like that…
I thought “mispellings of basic white girl names” are funny enough, but nope, we now have mispellings of words that are not even names. Triniteigh… What’s next, Conflagurayshawn?
i’m so fucking happy sweden has laws preventing this stuff, names here have to be approved as not causing undue harm to the child
Personally, I prefer names that are forbidden, like Username, Null, Admin, 'SELECT * FROM Users;-- , example@contoso.com, Error, <FirstName>,
Found the Microsoft employee.
Ok Elon
ah yes, the classic admin, or my personal favorite. [insert product name here]
Do these parents not realise that they are naming real humans that will also be adults one day? Like, just imagine a grown-ass woman named “Brexleigh”.
If I was a primary school kid with a classmate named brexliegh you can bet your ass I’d be calling them brexit
If I had a friend right now with that name, I’d be calling them Brexit. Would fit right in with Charles Barkley, Dick Towers, Mr. Toast, and Lexicon.
This is our future, I’m afraid.
My friends daughter is Braxleigh, I laugh when I imagine being 60 and filling out AARP paperwork with the name Braxleigh
A lot of these people grew up being call “The Bllack Kim” or “The Fat Jesse” because there are only so many standard names.
It’s a child not a vanity plate
Some of these names sound like those brands you only ever find on Amazon
Amazon barely even does brand names now.
A baby name from Amazon would be like “BABY CHILD YOUTH LIL ADULT 6LB 7LB 8LB DOCTOR OLYMPICS ATHLETE FAMOUS TALL INDOOR OUTDOOR EASY TO CLEAN CUTE COLLECTIBLE FAMILY 3-PACK”
Sold by Nrnrnrg, a small “Ukrainian”* family owned company trusted for generations, established last week!
*designed in the Ukraine but assembled and shipped by our “trusted Chinese partners”**.
** partnership also first formed last week, sight unseen.
But also sold by OMNIX and some other company called XENKO. And they’re using the same product picture. Weird, right?
The “6LB 7LB 8LB” bit broke me, congratulations with a hearthy laugh.
Don’t forget weird ASCII symbols.
“Introducing our daughter, Kaeighleigh Pooplunch”
What irks me the most is the effort these idiot parents will go to give their baby as basic a name as “Allison” or “Ashley”
- Ashlie
- Ashlee
- Ashly
- Ashleigh
- Ashlea
- Ashli
- Ashely
- Ashlei
- Ashleah
- Asheleigh
- Ashelie
- Ahshlee
- the list goes on and on and on
No amount of vowels is going to make your kid’s name stand out when at the end of the day it’s the same pronunciation as the most common, basic form of it.
Mötley might be weird but it’s at least unique.
Sigurd. Felix. Wolfgang. Atreides. No one can mess with that mf.
There was a missing child report near me whose name was Mill’ionaire.
I have a half-baked outline for a character who goes by C. M. Mil’naire and is really embarrassed about the fact that his full name is actually Cash Money Mil’naire. I have no idea how to use him, but I love him too much to not keep around.
A shady merchant that arrives just when the main character needs help would work.
