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in reply to a message by Tiggs
Yes, I have, they're extremely nice. My grandma - born in 1913 - wore a lot of nice opal jewelry. I think it was sort of early-20th-century trendy. The stone, I mean, as well as the name.
It's not that I think opal is tacky. It's that the name seems that way to me. Opal is to the 1910s what Amber is to the 1980s. Almost exactly. It even has a similar clunk to the sound (in my accent these names come out Ohpull and Amburr).
Now that I think about it ... I feel like all gem names are kinda tacky bling-names, and the only ones I like are Diamond (because it's abstractly symbolic of hardness/long life/protection, and also has sounds I associate with names Diana, Raymond) and Emerald (because the word sounds like all the emma names). But they're GPs.
Opal Rosetta came to mind.
- mirfak
It's not that I think opal is tacky. It's that the name seems that way to me. Opal is to the 1910s what Amber is to the 1980s. Almost exactly. It even has a similar clunk to the sound (in my accent these names come out Ohpull and Amburr).
Now that I think about it ... I feel like all gem names are kinda tacky bling-names, and the only ones I like are Diamond (because it's abstractly symbolic of hardness/long life/protection, and also has sounds I associate with names Diana, Raymond) and Emerald (because the word sounds like all the emma names). But they're GPs.
Opal Rosetta came to mind.
- mirfak
This message was edited 10/29/2015, 11:17 AM
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