Message: "Herleva & Arlette"

[Opinions] Herleva & Arlette

by Somebody random (guest)

7/10/2020, 12:47 PM

I feel like I’m the only person who thoroughly dislikes Herleva and prefers Arlette over it.

Herleva is clunky, dated, unattractive-sounding and overall just very ugly. The only person I can imagine being named this is a bitter old German grandmother, shouting at her grandchildren with an incomprehensibly thick accent.

Arlette isn’t the prettiest name either, but I find it much more youthful and less harsh than Herleva. It doesn’t really remind me of Arlene or any other “redneck“ style names - it reminds me more of Alouette or Antoinette instead. It’s still not really my style, but much better than Herleva at any rate.

Anyone agree? Anyone disagree?

#Arlette #Herleva

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- ari.

7/11/2020, 11:48 AM

Herleva sounds like an Austrian dessert to me. I kind of like Arletta though, I used to imagine an actress whose stage name was Arletta Hartley, which I thought had a nice flow.

- a masked man (blaaarg)

7/10/2020, 8:32 PM

I think you’re th e only person who thinks about Herleva.

I’d never heard of it. I’m not charmed by it. I do find Arlette sort of charming. I do think of it as a bit rednecky, but that’s ok. -ette is a pretty ending, and can do nice things for all kinds of weird sounds like Arl-.

- Kerilyntaryn21

7/10/2020, 2:05 PM

I dislike both, but think Arlette is slightly better

- a.. +1

7/10/2020, 1:18 PM

This message was edited 4/11/2021, 10:40 AM

- a masked man (blaaarg)

7/10/2020, 8:33 PM

“Hurl” is pretty prominent in Herleva- in my American accent at least. It’s prettier in german

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