[ SECRET POST #2189 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2189 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have five months to convince my friend that the name she's chosen for her daughter is impossible to a) spell, b) pronounce, or c) not make fun of. Is there any way at all to tell her that without being insulting? I know it's none of my business, but growing up with a name that fits all three criteria has made me overly sympathetic to any and all future victims, so I have to know if there's a polite way to at least try.

[(Anonymous)]

It depends, what's the name?

Like, is it a family name that you could convince her to switch to a middle name? Is it a ~speshul~ spelling of a common name? Knowing what kind of name it is might help us help you and the unborn child. :)

[tabaqui]

Wow. Um. Tell us the name, let us comment, show her the comments? Tell her your own experiences with your name? Sucks, really - sorry i don't have better ideas.

[cassandraoftroy]

I'd suggest, when you have the conversation with her, approach it from the perspective of your own experiences in childhood with your name. Tell her some of the ways that kids made fun of your name, or that adults mispronounced or misspelled your name, and how you felt about it all. Then ask her if she thinks her daughter is likely to run into similar problems with the chosen name. Give her some examples of ways the name could be twisted by cruel children. Emphasize that it's a lovely name by itself, but that it has certain potential pitfalls.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally, I'd tell her it was a bad idea, just because statistically speaking, people with unusual or hard-to-pronounce names generally don't get hired as easily as people with more common names, and if she got butthurt about it, I'd explain that it's a nice name, but a parent really needs to think about the child's future.

I've seen way too many horrible "kre8iv" names for kids these days, so I hope you do find some way to convince her to change it, for the kid's sake. (Though I'm really curious: what is the name?)

[(Anonymous)]

"creative" = "cre+ate+ive" = "kre8iv"