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HelpRe: A pitch for my own - and what a Pitch! (Ha Ha Ha)
in reply to a message by Barbra
I hadn't made a connection until now, that my childrens' joke nonsense phrase BAR BAR BAR is actually equivalent to the origin of the name Barbara!
That is fun. I thought that barbaros was really just a Greek word meaning foreign.
We do this goofy thing with our car's voice command feature ... when it is waiting for input the kids say BAR BAR BAR, and a robotic female voice says "please repeat!" so ... they say it again, BAR BAR BAR ... and she asks again for us to please repeat. (Well, car rides can be boring. and I have a lame sense of humor maybe.) Anyway I think the car's voice has a new name: Barbara! My husband had wanted to call it Prudence, but I think Barbara fits much better.
I agree the name is classic and respectable, but I'm afraid the connotation of beautiful strangers is going to have to be a thing of another generation (which it could be in the future as well as the past). To me it's the name of my friends' mothers when I was growing up, women born in the 40s - and one of the harshest sounding classic feminine names that isn't Germanic. And Barbie is the doll. As a child I recall thinking it was a weirdly unfashionable and old name for a doll that is supposed to be super fashionable and youthful.
Anyway thanks for the tidbit that will always make me smile about the name Barbara. Which is not a bad name, I agree - I just won't ever find it appealing. (Well come to think of it, if I start calling my car that, I might, a little bit!) If your name is really Barbara / Barbra, good for you for choosing to be positive about it. People not liking a person's name doesn't really amount to anything at all in real life, IMO.
- mirfak
That is fun. I thought that barbaros was really just a Greek word meaning foreign.
We do this goofy thing with our car's voice command feature ... when it is waiting for input the kids say BAR BAR BAR, and a robotic female voice says "please repeat!" so ... they say it again, BAR BAR BAR ... and she asks again for us to please repeat. (Well, car rides can be boring. and I have a lame sense of humor maybe.) Anyway I think the car's voice has a new name: Barbara! My husband had wanted to call it Prudence, but I think Barbara fits much better.
I agree the name is classic and respectable, but I'm afraid the connotation of beautiful strangers is going to have to be a thing of another generation (which it could be in the future as well as the past). To me it's the name of my friends' mothers when I was growing up, women born in the 40s - and one of the harshest sounding classic feminine names that isn't Germanic. And Barbie is the doll. As a child I recall thinking it was a weirdly unfashionable and old name for a doll that is supposed to be super fashionable and youthful.
Anyway thanks for the tidbit that will always make me smile about the name Barbara. Which is not a bad name, I agree - I just won't ever find it appealing. (Well come to think of it, if I start calling my car that, I might, a little bit!) If your name is really Barbara / Barbra, good for you for choosing to be positive about it. People not liking a person's name doesn't really amount to anything at all in real life, IMO.
- mirfak
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