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Help[Opinions] Re: Be honest. Give me all the things you think when you hear the name Amanda
in reply to a message by rosanna
I have contradictory opinions about it.
My knee jerk reaction is that it's dated, plodding, and boring. I grew up around so many Amandas. God, just... so many. I wish I could come up with the equivalent name for younger generations, so they understand how boring this name is. Anyway. I remember they ALL experienced, at one point, some teasing when kids discover the hilarious pun in the name and would obnoxiously yell "you're a man, DUH!" whenever an Amanda was near. In my accent,the name really does sound like "Uh man duh" which is not ideal.
BUT, part of me can appreciate Amanda. When I remember that it's actually a Baroque invention, it softens into something more poetic. It has a warmth to it, and I especially love it as a middle name. In the middle, the boring familiarity of it mellows nicely into something sweetly sentimental.
Amanda could become interesting again if it had the right middle name, I think. Maybe something that really plays on the imaginative history of the name.
My knee jerk reaction is that it's dated, plodding, and boring. I grew up around so many Amandas. God, just... so many. I wish I could come up with the equivalent name for younger generations, so they understand how boring this name is. Anyway. I remember they ALL experienced, at one point, some teasing when kids discover the hilarious pun in the name and would obnoxiously yell "you're a man, DUH!" whenever an Amanda was near. In my accent,the name really does sound like "Uh man duh" which is not ideal.
BUT, part of me can appreciate Amanda. When I remember that it's actually a Baroque invention, it softens into something more poetic. It has a warmth to it, and I especially love it as a middle name. In the middle, the boring familiarity of it mellows nicely into something sweetly sentimental.
Amanda could become interesting again if it had the right middle name, I think. Maybe something that really plays on the imaginative history of the name.
