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HelpRe: Symphany, Sonnet & Sistine
in reply to a message by Delphi_Blue
These are names that are trying really hard to be pretty and it's just not working for me and I feel bad about it.
Symphony is an attractive sounding word, it looks wrong as a name no matter how it is spelled.
Sonnet is actually kind of ok, I like that combo the best. Sonnet is such a cheerful-solemn word.
Sistine ... I just can't get into this "name", it makes me think of toilet water and sewers, maybe because it puts me in mind of both latrines and cisterns. I wish it made me think of tombs, I'm totally into that. Toilet water just doesn't have the same pathos.
Good effort by the parents though! That's probably gonna be me one day - obsessing over picking attractive names that fit into a nice cohesive pattern and ending up with something not quite right.
Symphony is an attractive sounding word, it looks wrong as a name no matter how it is spelled.
Sonnet is actually kind of ok, I like that combo the best. Sonnet is such a cheerful-solemn word.
Sistine ... I just can't get into this "name", it makes me think of toilet water and sewers, maybe because it puts me in mind of both latrines and cisterns. I wish it made me think of tombs, I'm totally into that. Toilet water just doesn't have the same pathos.
Good effort by the parents though! That's probably gonna be me one day - obsessing over picking attractive names that fit into a nice cohesive pattern and ending up with something not quite right.
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Huh. Now that you mention it I do see/hear the similarity to cistern and thus the toilet connection, but for me the Sistine Chapel association is so strong it overwhelmes any others.
That and it sounds so similar to Christine that it feels like it can make the jump from word to name. Although maybe because it's popped up on a few celebrity babies recently that I'd already made the jump in my head so it didn't seem so surprising to see it here.
I do think it needs a less loaded middle name though, because the first name is already so loaded. Ditto Sonnet and Delilah.
That and it sounds so similar to Christine that it feels like it can make the jump from word to name. Although maybe because it's popped up on a few celebrity babies recently that I'd already made the jump in my head so it didn't seem so surprising to see it here.
I do think it needs a less loaded middle name though, because the first name is already so loaded. Ditto Sonnet and Delilah.
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