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in reply to a message by onoma
For you to like the name? Either you like a name or you don't, that's all there is to it. You don't have to like the name or even stop despising it. Obviously you should not let on to people named Katie or with kids named Katie that you don't like the name, but if you have to be told that, you've got bigger problems.
I don't like the name Katie either. It's cutesy and babyish and simpery. I picture some pudgy little girl with fat pink chipmunk cheeks and a piggy little freckled nose and eyes too close together, who's always giggling and babbling like a baby.
Kate is much better, but has a rather prissy, English-girls'-boarding-school vibe.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
I don't like the name Katie either. It's cutesy and babyish and simpery. I picture some pudgy little girl with fat pink chipmunk cheeks and a piggy little freckled nose and eyes too close together, who's always giggling and babbling like a baby.
Kate is much better, but has a rather prissy, English-girls'-boarding-school vibe.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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Quite. I hate the name Laura, because of an obnoxious Laura whom I knew, but I've never felt it necessary to start liking it. I also hate houndstooth fabric, the smell of patchouli, long hair on little boys, blue eyeshadow, and dyed blonde hair on women who don't have the complexion for it, but people will still wear the fabric, use the scent, not cut their sons' hair, wear the eyeshadow, and dye their hair, as well as be named Laura. They can do it, and I can hate it, and we can all still live happily ever after.
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