"Meet my daughter, Tertia Spirit."
You say: What an interesting name.
You think: Doesn't sound like a real name, not very pretty sounding...poor kid.
"This is my son,
Horatio Kolbe." (Kolbe is pronunced about like KOH-bah)
You say: How unique. Cool name.
You think: A little too out there for my tastes, but not horrible.
"
May I present my daughter,
Susan Arcadia?"
You say: Pretty.
You think:
Susan is boring and
Arcadia is weird. Not horrible, though.
"These are our twins,
Eva Alexandrine and
Friedrich Joachim." (EE-vah, not AY-vah or EH-vah--and
Friedrich would be called
Fritz.)
You say: Great names.
You think: same