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HelpRe: Iskra & Tesni
in reply to a message by vigdis
Put links if you post unusual names. Please! My pet peeve! haha
I agree they have great meanings but are awfully awkward to say for someone with American speech habits. Tesni sounds like an acronym. Iskra is much more sayable, IMO, but I would probably end up calling her Izzy or Isky.
I would not use some foreign names I like the meaning of, or like for fairly shallow reasons, for a child because I would feel kinda dumb using a name I don't say quite right and don't really have a good idea what it connotes to people. And I like some names that have baggage, or I just can't say right.
Chandra - I met a guy called this once. prn more like chundruh
Ashika - saw it on a young girl, don't know what it means.
Dari - same
Shirin
Zeno
Nefertari
Lucifer - such a meaning.
Jezebel - who was defamed because history is a tale told by conquerors, and I want to use it mainly just to express skepticism.
Ferelith - uh, how do you really say this? haha
Laniakea - great meaning, not sure it's even a name for people tho.
Mercury - everybody goes, "like Freddie?" Ugh. No, not like Freddie. Not like the metal, not like the car ... forget it.
Phaedra - baggage galore, a bit like Electra! (though that is not enough by itself to make me not use a name) and I'd want it said FEDra not "Fay" or "Fee"
Ramón - I can't make that initial RR and anyway, I have Raymond.
Even Charlotte could be on this list because even though I love it, I don't naturally say it in the pretty way I think it should be said (sharlawt. I say sharlet) and that's the main reason I didn't use it.
- mirfak
I agree they have great meanings but are awfully awkward to say for someone with American speech habits. Tesni sounds like an acronym. Iskra is much more sayable, IMO, but I would probably end up calling her Izzy or Isky.
I would not use some foreign names I like the meaning of, or like for fairly shallow reasons, for a child because I would feel kinda dumb using a name I don't say quite right and don't really have a good idea what it connotes to people. And I like some names that have baggage, or I just can't say right.
Chandra - I met a guy called this once. prn more like chundruh
Ashika - saw it on a young girl, don't know what it means.
Dari - same
Shirin
Zeno
Nefertari
Lucifer - such a meaning.
Jezebel - who was defamed because history is a tale told by conquerors, and I want to use it mainly just to express skepticism.
Ferelith - uh, how do you really say this? haha
Laniakea - great meaning, not sure it's even a name for people tho.
Mercury - everybody goes, "like Freddie?" Ugh. No, not like Freddie. Not like the metal, not like the car ... forget it.
Phaedra - baggage galore, a bit like Electra! (though that is not enough by itself to make me not use a name) and I'd want it said FEDra not "Fay" or "Fee"
Ramón - I can't make that initial RR and anyway, I have Raymond.
Even Charlotte could be on this list because even though I love it, I don't naturally say it in the pretty way I think it should be said (sharlawt. I say sharlet) and that's the main reason I didn't use it.
- mirfak
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