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Help[Opinions] Re: Chara
in reply to a message by ✧･ﾟ: *Magpie*:･ﾟ✧
Oh no it's a manga / anime
sigh ... I should have googled it.
Feels like when I see a lovely red strawberry growing in my garden, and I go to pick it, it but the entire backside of it has been eaten by a slug ... and the slug is still there, munching, and I touched it, ew ew ew. Or like stepping in cold kitten vomit.
I was kind of interested to see it linked in blue on btn (to a Greek name meaning joy, pronounced kha- apparently, could be ka- to an English speaker) and thought Undertale was the only usurpation. (I sometimes feel like mass/pop culture hoovers up all of the most simple, obvious names that people could revive, borrow, or invent in English and use for children, and contaminates them by associating them with some dumb character nobody would want to be named after and nobody will remember after 20 years.)
Well, this is what the opinions board is for! I'm glad you commented about it.
- mirfak
sigh ... I should have googled it.
Feels like when I see a lovely red strawberry growing in my garden, and I go to pick it, it but the entire backside of it has been eaten by a slug ... and the slug is still there, munching, and I touched it, ew ew ew. Or like stepping in cold kitten vomit.
I was kind of interested to see it linked in blue on btn (to a Greek name meaning joy, pronounced kha- apparently, could be ka- to an English speaker) and thought Undertale was the only usurpation. (I sometimes feel like mass/pop culture hoovers up all of the most simple, obvious names that people could revive, borrow, or invent in English and use for children, and contaminates them by associating them with some dumb character nobody would want to be named after and nobody will remember after 20 years.)
Well, this is what the opinions board is for! I'm glad you commented about it.
- mirfak
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It's not even a character name, it literally just means "character" in Japanese. So I think you're fine there.
That's a rather dramatic take though, that even an obscure foreign association can ruin a name for you. Fiction reflects humanity, so of course that includes the names. And as we've seen on this board, people will develop all sorts of positive or negative associations towards a name regardless of pop culture references. It's rather unavoidable either way.
That's a rather dramatic take though, that even an obscure foreign association can ruin a name for you. Fiction reflects humanity, so of course that includes the names. And as we've seen on this board, people will develop all sorts of positive or negative associations towards a name regardless of pop culture references. It's rather unavoidable either way.
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No, it's not the foreign association. It's the "pop culture" association. Not because anime isn't American, but because they're so popular. It's sorta like, back in the 1990s, I would have been reluctant to use the name Ren. Ren could be a perfectly legit name, like Chara is... but it was "ruined" by pop culture, at that time.
I actually agree with you that it probably doesn't matter. Even someone named Ren in 1995 would not be suffering for it today! I'm just reacting according to how I feel about it right now, as a hypothetical appealing name I could add to a list, if I were hoping to name babies.
I actually agree with you that it probably doesn't matter. Even someone named Ren in 1995 would not be suffering for it today! I'm just reacting according to how I feel about it right now, as a hypothetical appealing name I could add to a list, if I were hoping to name babies.
This message was edited 9/6/2023, 6:41 AM
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I think I get what you mean. I like both Ariana and Selena, but I know next to nothing about Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez. If I used them, people'd think I'm a fan, but I have no idea if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
I like the name Justin, but it's associated too much with Justin Beiber to use right now, so I won't even as a middle
I like the name Justin, but it's associated too much with Justin Beiber to use right now, so I won't even as a middle
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