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The expression "age well" was used in the name comments, Why is that important?
This message was edited 2/20/2024, 9:23 PM
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So you don’t end up with situations like “All rise, the Honourable Judge Pookie Smith presiding,” or “Hello, I’m Doctor Jellybean Lee, and I’ll be your surgeon today”.
I’ve seen babies names like Anton and Doris, which in my opinion are old people names and funny on a tiny baby. And I’ve known people in their nineties full names like Annie and Frankie. These names would often be called out for not aging well. In reality it really doesn’t matter. I have friend named Gerda. Gerda! And she’s in her thirties (from a very tradition and strict Christian family). At first I thought that’s a terribly old fashioned name, but now I don’t know any better. In the end a person’s name, whether it ages well or not, doesn’t determine ones character or one is perceived.
Sorry my grammar is atrocious, but I’m tired.
It's important if you want to use the name for a baby. If you give a baby a cute, babyish name, it will fit them for a while but then they'll grow up and it won't work because it will be an adult with a babyish name.
It's not important for characters, because if a character is only one age during the book/movie/whatever, the name doesn't have to age.
The same goes for "old" names, an old character can have an old person name but a real baby or kid would sound weird with an old person name.
It's not important for characters, because if a character is only one age during the book/movie/whatever, the name doesn't have to age.
The same goes for "old" names, an old character can have an old person name but a real baby or kid would sound weird with an old person name.
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Some names can feel appropriate on babies or young children because they have a cute, diminutive quality. But these childlike characteristics might not be appreciated if they grow up and want to be taken "seriously". In English speaking culture at least, something that is considered cute and young isn't given much respect or authority.
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Some nicknames seem to be suitable for adults and children, but others don't seem to last into adulthood. So a successful professional man or woman would seem to lose some dignity if they went by a babyish nickname.
I knew a woman, a friend's mother when we were kids, who had been the youngest child in a big family and was always called Baby. And it stuck. Her husband called her Baby, and her nieces and nephews called her Aunty Baby. She didn't seem to mind; I suppose she'd never known anything different. But I found it embarrassing. For what it's worth, she was brisk and busy and a teacher of Physical Education.
I knew a woman, a friend's mother when we were kids, who had been the youngest child in a big family and was always called Baby. And it stuck. Her husband called her Baby, and her nieces and nephews called her Aunty Baby. She didn't seem to mind; I suppose she'd never known anything different. But I found it embarrassing. For what it's worth, she was brisk and busy and a teacher of Physical Education.
Thank you.
If it's suitable for a baby and adult, not too cutesy
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