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HelpRe: WDYTO Juliet?
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Shakesphere??
Sorry, you can't just say you value that it's "an old name with history" but resent its one major historical association. Names don't exist in the abstract. If you love it, love it fully, love everything about it - love how intertwined it is with this enormous archetypical image, intertwine yourself with that image, and then use the name. Or don't think about it very hard at all. But I don't think anyone who resents Juliet's association with, ahem, "Shakesphere," earns the right to use it - because at that point it almost becomes cultural appropriation, or de-appropriation.
Sorry, you can't just say you value that it's "an old name with history" but resent its one major historical association. Names don't exist in the abstract. If you love it, love it fully, love everything about it - love how intertwined it is with this enormous archetypical image, intertwine yourself with that image, and then use the name. Or don't think about it very hard at all. But I don't think anyone who resents Juliet's association with, ahem, "Shakesphere," earns the right to use it - because at that point it almost becomes cultural appropriation, or de-appropriation.
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Forgive me, how will I ever live without you excepting my spelling typo... I'm only human. And yes, I think I can like a name when other people associate it so something I do not care for. It is important to consider that Juliet may have some other meaningful link to my life in another way than Shakespeare.
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Accepting your error, you mean?
Names aren't just about you and links to your life, though. They're public currency. Juliet isn't just what you'd identify with your daughter, it's what everyone else would identify her with, too. You can't just ignore the fact that the vast majority of people will identify your daughter's name with one of the mainstays of literary culture.
Names aren't just about you and links to your life, though. They're public currency. Juliet isn't just what you'd identify with your daughter, it's what everyone else would identify her with, too. You can't just ignore the fact that the vast majority of people will identify your daughter's name with one of the mainstays of literary culture.
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