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Help[Opinions] don't think so ^^
in reply to a message by penguiny7
Apparently that theorie isn´t even certain. But anyway Elisabeth and Isabella don't sound or look alike anymore (to me anyway), apart from the small "isa" part, so I don't see any problem with this. (However I don't like the spellings Elisabet and Isabela)
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Yeah, but they're still derived from the same name. To me (and a good many namenerds) it's like having twins named Mary and Maria or Alice and Adelaide. My Spanish teacher refers to his daughter as "Elizabeth" when he's talking in English and "Isabel" when he's talking in Spanish. James is derived from Jacob, so the period in English history that was ruled by Kings James is known as the Jacobean period. Names with the same etymological derivation are, to me, essentially the same name.
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Ah, I see ...
depends on the region then. Where I live - neither english nor spanish speaking region - I've never seen Elisabeth and Isabel being used on the same person. (And Isabella is even more different)
To me, Mary and Maria or Alice and Adelaide look much worse and a lot more similar, in these cases I can understand.
However f.ex. I don't see James and Jacob as the "same name", or John and Jack or Nancy and Anna or Louis and Ludwig or Guillaume and William ... they already sound to different one from another.
depends on the region then. Where I live - neither english nor spanish speaking region - I've never seen Elisabeth and Isabel being used on the same person. (And Isabella is even more different)
To me, Mary and Maria or Alice and Adelaide look much worse and a lot more similar, in these cases I can understand.
However f.ex. I don't see James and Jacob as the "same name", or John and Jack or Nancy and Anna or Louis and Ludwig or Guillaume and William ... they already sound to different one from another.
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