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in reply to a message by New_Chloë
This name feels less magical to me and more like the sound of an old man coughing. Like the word to describe a raspy cough "Erasmus" "Angina" they just go together. No offense though. Hope you are well Chloe.
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No offense taken at all! The ordinary bleakness of an old man coughing is exactly what Erasmus needs to be brought back to earth, haha. It makes it so.... grossly accessible. (Also I feel a kind of kinship with it because people have said similar things about Chloe - the phlegmy quality of it, you know?)
I hope you're well too Diana :)
I hope you're well too Diana :)
I think I've told you long before but when I used to work in a nursing home there was an old woman named Chloe, but she said it as one syllable. Chloe rhyming with Glow.
That's neat! I heard of someone more recently who did the same thing, named their kid Chloe, pronounced like "Joe". I've often wondered how much frustration they've met with, how that's going for them...
I don't know but before I realized the old woman Chloe was one syllable I would greet her by saying "How ya doing today Chloe?" (The ordinary way) and she'd respond "I don't know, but if I see her I'll ask her for you" as an off-handed way of meaning that's not her name, but I didn't catch on for a while.
Well that is an interesting way of thinking of it for sure. I've never thought of Chloe as phlegmy before. But I am of the age group where Chloe was associated with pretty, blonde girls and dolls in the early 2000s. We had a dog named Chloe when I was very small as well, a golden retriever. The equivalent of the pretty blonde woman in the dog world imo.