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[Opinions] Re: Maple
But in order to become an official real name you have to use a word as a name. You just have to start somewhere. And Autumn hasn't been used at all before the 60s. Also I don't think Kaede will ever become as well known as Phoebe so she'd have to explain it over and over for the rest of her life.
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I'd still rather explain it than walk around as Maple. People in mono-cultural settings could benefit from some expansion of awareness of other cultures anyway. Just because people grow up in a bubble with limited awareness of the world beyond them doesn't mean they have to stay in the unaware bubble... and my point was that those around the person w/ the name would get used to it quickly and it would be really easy to say, so it wouldn't be a problem... not like if I used a name with the Ry consonant cluster.
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