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Help[Opinions] Re: Symphany, Sonnet & Sistine
in reply to a message by Delphi_Blue
Symphony should be a nice musical name like Harmony but ... it's not. A symphony is LOUD. And it has 'phony' in it. And if you change the spelling to Symphany it looks tacky, like the name's inspired by the cliche of "hearing a symphony" rather than by actual experience of appreciating an entire symphony. And the uMPH in it would be bothering me if I had to say this name a lot. I would not be impressed if I met a Symphany. I'd feel bad for her.
Sonnet at least sounds like a name, if I don't think about how flakey it is to name a human being after a literary form. But I do think about it. Would her brothers be Ballad and Epic? It's so dumb. But, I believe I could forget, if I knew someone named Sonnet. So, whatever. It's not as bad as Lyric!
Sistine makes me think cystine, pristine, sister, teen(aged), and of the Chapel which evokes some kind of weird artsy-religious pretension ... and I do sort of share the vague impression of dirty water and plumbing, cisterns and systems, that some of you people seem to get off it. I also just hate it a whole lot. I think if I had to call someone Sistine every day, I would think it sounded snake-ish and harsh and catty.
- mirfak
Sonnet at least sounds like a name, if I don't think about how flakey it is to name a human being after a literary form. But I do think about it. Would her brothers be Ballad and Epic? It's so dumb. But, I believe I could forget, if I knew someone named Sonnet. So, whatever. It's not as bad as Lyric!
Sistine makes me think cystine, pristine, sister, teen(aged), and of the Chapel which evokes some kind of weird artsy-religious pretension ... and I do sort of share the vague impression of dirty water and plumbing, cisterns and systems, that some of you people seem to get off it. I also just hate it a whole lot. I think if I had to call someone Sistine every day, I would think it sounded snake-ish and harsh and catty.
- mirfak
This message was edited 5/6/2015, 10:36 AM
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