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HelpRe: Teia?
in reply to a message by abbasdaughter
Really? To me Taya looks super creative. Teia reminds me of Theia which is legit and has an awesome meaning. Taya to me looks like it should be TAH-ya or TY-ah and totally made up.
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Name-nerd versus not
I think this is a case where Teia would seem more legit and logical to the name-nerd and Taya would seem more logical and legit to the real-world. Maybe?
I think this is a case where Teia would seem more legit and logical to the name-nerd and Taya would seem more logical and legit to the real-world. Maybe?
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Thing is that Taya actually is used in the real world. Teia just feels and looks awkward to me... and kinda ugly and jumbled like something's not quite right.
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No, I don't think so. She wants it to be pronounced TAY-a. Teia looks like Leia which is commonly pronounced LAY-ah. Taya looks like Maya which is pronounced MY-ah or MAH-ya. So Teia wouldn't be mispronounced as often. Apart from that it looks legit, like a slight variant of Theia which has a great meaning, whereas Taya looks made up. I don't have anything against Taya but prefer Teia.
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I guess I was thinking that the Theia connection wouldn't really matter to most people, since that's not a name that a lot of people would even have heard of. The Leia connection makes sense though.
I would have thought Taya would regularly be assumed to be pronounced TAY-uh, because English has so many words that have the "ay" sound and are spelled that way. :) Like way. And say, bay, day, okay, ray, may, pay, pray, etc.
I would have thought Taya would regularly be assumed to be pronounced TAY-uh, because English has so many words that have the "ay" sound and are spelled that way. :) Like way. And say, bay, day, okay, ray, may, pay, pray, etc.
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Or maybe it's case by case...
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I agree with you. I think Taya would be much more difficult to live with than Teia. And Teia is pretty, Taya is...not. The pronunciation of Taya is definitely less straightforward than Teia in my opion. And there's Leia who most people are familiar with.
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It might be made up at some point, but I've encountered it in a couple completely different contexts (people who likely don't know each other)... It does look like one that could have multiple prn.s, but somehow the i just doesn't look right in there...
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