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Help[Opinions] Re: Grey
in reply to a message by Martha
If it were a middle name I'd say, I don't care. I don't think anyone would really mind having Grey as a middle name. It's not like he's being identified with grayness (or with a heavy-handed suggestion of nobility and wealth), the way it seems as a first name.
And if it were a spontaneously bestowed and personally accepted nickname, for say, Graham or Gratian, or someone who had voluntarily associated themselves with the color by, say, wearing it every day, or coloring their hair gray ... then I wouldn't mind it.
But it's pretentious and trendy, and doesn't evoke anything appealing and namey for me ... it even evokes very many negative things.
So I think it's pretty bad as a given full first name.
- mirfak
And if it were a spontaneously bestowed and personally accepted nickname, for say, Graham or Gratian, or someone who had voluntarily associated themselves with the color by, say, wearing it every day, or coloring their hair gray ... then I wouldn't mind it.
But it's pretentious and trendy, and doesn't evoke anything appealing and namey for me ... it even evokes very many negative things.
So I think it's pretty bad as a given full first name.
- mirfak
This message was edited 3/25/2020, 11:49 AM
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Huh. I never thought of it as pretentious, but actually, I can see what you mean.
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