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you are just jealous that attention is taken away from one of your 20 threads about feet, sweat or smells.
I couldn't rep you again, but I owe you one. Made me lol!
Or the thread about sandals. Remember that one?
This on the other hand, is an actual scientific subject. People's names do effect others perception of them. Including their perceived intelligence and beauty.
There was an article entitled "Blind Date Names". People were given lists of names and asked who they would prefer to date. There was a perception that certain first names would be attached to beautiful people where as others, to unattractive and obese people. Who were also not terribly smart.
I do not some one who changed her first name to "Heather" (a desirable female name at the time, and still pretty; I think) from a very heavy and ethnic name, Helga.
She married the next year, after her social life picked up considerably.
I really don't think it does. One can shorten their names to sound more attractive. Many Indian men do this, including myself.
Correct. My maiden name was Banerjee, a rather common Indian last name. That is a shortened form of Bandopadhyay, a tongue twister to the Nth degree, not to mention a spelling nightmare. The majority of Indians with this last name use the shortened form. People in the US had enough trouble with the Banerjee, so I always used the short form. Then I married an American guy with an uncommon but very easy to spell (and pronounce) four letter last name. Although we divorced, I kept my ex-husband's last name, on mutual agreement.
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Originally Posted by Adi from the Brunswicks
My made up names for kids ( if I ever decide to have them) will sound weird to most here, because south Indian names are quite long (chuckle).
My suggestion to you Adi, is to use American first names if you stay here. My father named his three kids long Indian names, they have lived in the US most of their lives, and it has been very disadvantageous to them as a result.
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Originally Posted by lkb0714
People can mangle many names they shouldn't.
My daughters name is Chloe. Not a difficult name to pronounce. People call her Cleo, Chow, Chol, Cholo, Clare and another dozen variations I cannot even fathom. Why? I have no idea. It isn't even a weird spelling.
But considering the name has a lot of meaning to her father and I, she is happy to have a name that wasn't just picked out of a book.
I think Chloe is a beautiful name, and just the right amount of unusual. But it is difficult to both spell and pronounce for many people for a few reasons: It is because of the odd combination of consonants in the first syllable followed by a combo of vowels in the second syllable. The O and the E are also both long, instead of short and the H is silent. So it is not an easy name. It is Welsh, isn't it?
Yes, it matters. Try to think of your child as a grown adult with children of their own. Does an executive really want to have some cutesy name that sounds more like a stripper? Imagine a grandmother named Tiffany or Angel. What about a governor named Mo-tavious?
YES, it matters. Poor name choices can put a child's life on the wrong track right from the start.
Certainly a person's name influences my perceptions of them. Saying "don't judge for something they can't help" is almost irrelevant. If their parents names them something distinctly urban, that is highly correlated with certain backgrounds/microcultures. Same with something very hillbilly, or ethnic. The influence may be positive or negative, depending.
Mercedes is an actual name--French I think. And there was an actress named Mercedes McCambridge. So Mercedes for a female is not a made up name.
Otherwise, interesting post.
I named my kids names that I thought sounded good with their last name. And I leaned toward traditional Britishy names. But my firstborn's name was picked out when I was in my teens. Any others do this?
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Yes. "Portia" is a pretty name that was a character in "The Merchant of Venice", a Shakespearean play.
"Porsche" is a German luxury sports car. The problem is, when spoken they sound the same. For that reason I would not use it.
For the record "Mercedes" is a Spanish name. However, it was the name of the daughter of the designer of the automobile.
When people today chose the girl's name "Mercedes", I can safely say that 90% of them are thinking of the luxury automobile, not the legitimate name.
Yes, it is of Spanish origin and it means 'mercies' in the context of the merciful, Virgin Mary. It is also the name of one of my favorite actresses...
Mercedes J. Ruehl (born February 28, 1948) is an American theater, television, and film actress; the daughter of Mercedes J. Ruehl, a school teacher, and Vincent Ruehl, an FBI agent. Her father was of German and Irish descent and her mother was of Cuban and Irish ancestry.
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(chuckle).
