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Which do you prefer? I'm leaning towards Joyce recently, it feels less frilly than Joy and has less of the "but what if she will be clinically depressed?" problem.
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Ohhhh I really like both but probably lean towards Joyce more for similar reasons to you
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I like Joy better.
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I don't like Joyce. It comes out of the mouth weird. It's like someone took a perfectly good name and decided to try to make it sound awful with as little chances as possible.
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Joy, definitely. Joyce sounds like a frumpy sixty-year-old woman with a really bad perm and too much perfume and a house full of glass figurines.
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I love both Joy and Joyce.
Joyce a little more at the moment because of Netflix show 'Stranger Things', where Winona Ryder's character is named Joyce and I've fallen for both the show and her character.
It could always be Joyce, with the option of Joy should a nickname ever come into question. That's how I think of it. :)
Joyce a little more at the moment because of Netflix show 'Stranger Things', where Winona Ryder's character is named Joyce and I've fallen for both the show and her character.
It could always be Joyce, with the option of Joy should a nickname ever come into question. That's how I think of it. :)
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Inside Out
You found it depressing? How?!
You found it depressing? How?!
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The main character was like suffering from depression and I cried a lot both times I watched it? Also, Bing-Bong!
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It did make me cry. But I didn't find it depressing, just moving really. I loved it
Bing Bong though... :-(
Bing Bong though... :-(
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I loved it too, but I guess the word I was looking for was "heavy".
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Inside Out made me cry too. I love that movie, but it did make me bawl. Just like Up did!!
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I've honestly never cried as much as when I went to see UP
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Where I am from, Joyce is a grandmother name, which makes it perfect for a comeback right now. It's in the same vein as the uber-chic Evelyn imo.
Though, I do know of some "mom-age" Joyces... so it might still be frumpy-dated for some.
As for me, I have always preferred Joyce because it seems more complete than Joy. For some reason, I also think Joyce takes away some of the in-your-face girlishness out of Joyce.
Joy is part of my own name, and I like it. I just find it overly simple sometimes.
Though, I do know of some "mom-age" Joyces... so it might still be frumpy-dated for some.
As for me, I have always preferred Joyce because it seems more complete than Joy. For some reason, I also think Joyce takes away some of the in-your-face girlishness out of Joyce.
Joy is part of my own name, and I like it. I just find it overly simple sometimes.
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Joy seems a very simple name to me - not at all frilly. Also, people with certain kinds of depression experience all their emotions very intensely - including the ones we think of as 'good', such as joy. So I don't see the problem there, any more than calling a son - who could turn out to be a bit of a loser - 'Victor'.
I'll admit I don't like the sound of Joy all that much, but of the two I'd pick it
Joyce I actually hate. I don't like the juicy sound of it. For a female it seems fancified, along the lines of adding an 'e' to single syllable names just to be really sure they're feminine enough. And even so, Joyce is more a male name to me
I'll admit I don't like the sound of Joy all that much, but of the two I'd pick it
Joyce I actually hate. I don't like the juicy sound of it. For a female it seems fancified, along the lines of adding an 'e' to single syllable names just to be really sure they're feminine enough. And even so, Joyce is more a male name to me
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I had an aunt Joyce, also a cousin (her daughter), so I'm disposed to like the name. (My cousin was always called Joycey, to mark the difference between mother and daughter.)
Although my mother's family is prone to adding an"ie" or "y" onto every name if possible.
Joy is good too, though;I've known a couple. One was kind of the embodiement of the name, with curly black hair and a bouncy personality, the other was just an ordinary girl.
Although my mother's family is prone to adding an"ie" or "y" onto every name if possible.
Joy is good too, though;I've known a couple. One was kind of the embodiement of the name, with curly black hair and a bouncy personality, the other was just an ordinary girl.
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I like Joy better. Joyce sounds like the name of a crabby middle-aged woman.
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