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Help[Opinions] Re: Sparrow
in reply to a message by Billina
It's the kind of self-conscious, pointless word name I associate with celebrities. It's such an insubstantial name and an insubstantial little bird. I can't imagine looking at a person and calling them Sparrow.
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It's the kind of self-conscious, pointless word name I associate with celebrities. It's such an insubstantial name and an insubstantial little bird.
ITA with this.
Although it's not so totally un-namey that I can't imagine looking at a person and calling them Sparrow.
Some word names that *are* self-conscious pointless and insubstantial, I don't think are bad. Meadow shouldn't work, yet I think it does.
But I don't like Sparrow, because as a name it just seems particularly self-conscious ... Jack Sparrow was named that for a reason. And bird names are just kind of annoying, to me, image-wise. Even Raven, which I like, I acknowledge is self-conscious.
ITA with this.
Although it's not so totally un-namey that I can't imagine looking at a person and calling them Sparrow.
Some word names that *are* self-conscious pointless and insubstantial, I don't think are bad. Meadow shouldn't work, yet I think it does.
But I don't like Sparrow, because as a name it just seems particularly self-conscious ... Jack Sparrow was named that for a reason. And bird names are just kind of annoying, to me, image-wise. Even Raven, which I like, I acknowledge is self-conscious.
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