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in reply to a message by mirfak
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.
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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