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What if I say "Victoria always looks so snooty. It makes me think her mother must be a snob."
Where I, or my feelings, are the topic, and I'm not attacking the name, so much as describing my personal response to it?
Is it different enough from saying "Victoria is a snooty name and only a snob could use it."?
WDYT and why?
I think it is different enough, for this board at least. When I read: "It makes me think the parents must be illiterate," I interpret: "Some people don't like Kaleb because they feel it's important to present oneself as 'literate,' and they think conventional spelling shows 'literacy.'" The point of her saying her opinion is to advise against a name because of her negative perception of it, not because the people who use it are, in fact, inferior ... I don't interpret her as saying "Kaleb is a stupid name for stupid people."
Like, even if I insert my daughter's misspelled name into this thread and imagine Danno and Bex were talking about it ... I'm not offended by what they said. I'd be interested to know if people think the name's spelling reflects ignorance and looked down on that. It's good information about what some people honestly think. It doesn't hurt me.
Actually, even if someone said her name is a stupid name for stupid people, I'd still just sigh and think "welp, someone's wrong on the internet again"
- mirfak
Where I, or my feelings, are the topic, and I'm not attacking the name, so much as describing my personal response to it?
Is it different enough from saying "Victoria is a snooty name and only a snob could use it."?
WDYT and why?
I think it is different enough, for this board at least. When I read: "It makes me think the parents must be illiterate," I interpret: "Some people don't like Kaleb because they feel it's important to present oneself as 'literate,' and they think conventional spelling shows 'literacy.'" The point of her saying her opinion is to advise against a name because of her negative perception of it, not because the people who use it are, in fact, inferior ... I don't interpret her as saying "Kaleb is a stupid name for stupid people."
Like, even if I insert my daughter's misspelled name into this thread and imagine Danno and Bex were talking about it ... I'm not offended by what they said. I'd be interested to know if people think the name's spelling reflects ignorance and looked down on that. It's good information about what some people honestly think. It doesn't hurt me.
Actually, even if someone said her name is a stupid name for stupid people, I'd still just sigh and think "welp, someone's wrong on the internet again"
- mirfak
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