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in reply to a message by Esyllt
Issues occurring with it? I wouldn't want to go through life with Ever as my personal name. Would you? Seriously. The word is far, far too basic and common in the English language. It'd be like being named Only or Because. It'd be much worse than being named Always. I'd guess I say or hear the word "ever" in conversation during the day, probably a dozen times a day on average ... and that's just talking with my own family around the house. Combined with the number of times people say the word "every," I'd start barking if that was my name. Ugh! And don't get me started about the punning potential. haha. I mean, if you address someone named Ever, what do you say? You'd say:
Ever?
I could go on and on. I mean ... LOL. Except it would only be funny about twice.
Ever?
I could go on and on. I mean ... LOL. Except it would only be funny about twice.
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Just adding ... it's not that I'd be bothered about it being someone else's name. I'd be occasionally amused, and might have to struggle not to giggle at my own tendency to pun with it now and then. But I don't think it'd be too big a problem for people besides the bearer, and probably lots of people would ooh and ahh over it, just like they do over most every unusual name as long as it is easy to say.
The big problem I have with it is just that I wouldn't want to be a bearer. I wouldn't want to be called by it, because the word would bug me so much. It's both mundane and insubstantial IMO, because it's a common word and doesn't carry a lot of "eternity" meaning normally. So I'd not only tire of pricking up my ears any time someone said ever or every - I'd feel like the pedestrianness of the word got on my face, somehow. Who? Whoever! If it were a rarer word it might not bother me.
Just adding ... it's not that I'd be bothered about it being someone else's name. I'd be occasionally amused, and might have to struggle not to giggle at my own tendency to pun with it now and then. But I don't think it'd be too big a problem for people besides the bearer, and probably lots of people would ooh and ahh over it, just like they do over most every unusual name as long as it is easy to say.
The big problem I have with it is just that I wouldn't want to be a bearer. I wouldn't want to be called by it, because the word would bug me so much. It's both mundane and insubstantial IMO, because it's a common word and doesn't carry a lot of "eternity" meaning normally. So I'd not only tire of pricking up my ears any time someone said ever or every - I'd feel like the pedestrianness of the word got on my face, somehow. Who? Whoever! If it were a rarer word it might not bother me.
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Totally agree.
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Agree. It's a stupid name and I wouldn't be able to take anyone seriously who was called Ever.
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ditto to this...
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This, exactly
I was going to respond, but you hit the nail on the head! :)
I was going to respond, but you hit the nail on the head! :)
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