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HelpRe: Recent obsessions and changing tastes
in reply to a message by erb816
I found that my tastes changed so that I like names I'd seen in real life more - and names I appreciate, but have never seen used, I care for somewhat less.
The change I observed with having kids was not really my taste so much as how I evaluate names. When I think about names and whether I like them, I try to picture a real person named them, addressing that person, and imagine how a young real person might perceive a name if it occurred among their peers. Rather than fantasizing an amazing character for names I had not ever seen in real life.
I used to fancy names like Ariadne and Coralie and even Poppy, but now I picture them as things to call people and not images of characters, and they don't impress me so much. I also used to abhor names like Hunter and Hailey based on their trendy-style, but picturing them on real people - they're not so bad. I can like them. Hailey is an appealing name IMO. Not quite my style, but nice.
It's fun to imagine characters still, but I find it not so absorbing as I used to. I used to be like "Aurelia is so golden and regal and gracious!" ... like, the name does sound like that, and that's nice and does matter, but that's not my whole or even main response to it. It's more interesting than that. Aurelia on a real person, sounds no more golden and regal than Olivia and Riley and Azalea and Aaliyah might. It's just a name. All names become as ordinary as their bearers. I think "underused gem!" ones lose glamor the fastest, too. I actually like them more that way, though!
Daria is great and I think (hope) it's always just been a matter of time passing since the TV show, before people see its appeal again.
Thank goodness Dasha didn't take off meanwhile, I say.
I'm also looking forward to the forgetting of the Dora and Dory characters. I think all these names will be appealing whenever D sounds come back into fashion. It can't happen soon enough for me. M, R, J, D are some of my favorite sounds.
My taste is somewhat subject to fashion - I do generally like a lot of the short "liquid" modern names. I used one for my daughter. But I don't think my taste keeps up as well as it did, the older I get. There seem to be fewer and fewer names favored by the younger name enthusiasts here, that I like, and more of them that make me grimace. I guess that's inevitable and I'm fine with it, and I think I'll learn to like them more after I see them used as the names of actual young people.
- mirfak
The change I observed with having kids was not really my taste so much as how I evaluate names. When I think about names and whether I like them, I try to picture a real person named them, addressing that person, and imagine how a young real person might perceive a name if it occurred among their peers. Rather than fantasizing an amazing character for names I had not ever seen in real life.
I used to fancy names like Ariadne and Coralie and even Poppy, but now I picture them as things to call people and not images of characters, and they don't impress me so much. I also used to abhor names like Hunter and Hailey based on their trendy-style, but picturing them on real people - they're not so bad. I can like them. Hailey is an appealing name IMO. Not quite my style, but nice.
It's fun to imagine characters still, but I find it not so absorbing as I used to. I used to be like "Aurelia is so golden and regal and gracious!" ... like, the name does sound like that, and that's nice and does matter, but that's not my whole or even main response to it. It's more interesting than that. Aurelia on a real person, sounds no more golden and regal than Olivia and Riley and Azalea and Aaliyah might. It's just a name. All names become as ordinary as their bearers. I think "underused gem!" ones lose glamor the fastest, too. I actually like them more that way, though!
Daria is great and I think (hope) it's always just been a matter of time passing since the TV show, before people see its appeal again.
Thank goodness Dasha didn't take off meanwhile, I say.
I'm also looking forward to the forgetting of the Dora and Dory characters. I think all these names will be appealing whenever D sounds come back into fashion. It can't happen soon enough for me. M, R, J, D are some of my favorite sounds.
My taste is somewhat subject to fashion - I do generally like a lot of the short "liquid" modern names. I used one for my daughter. But I don't think my taste keeps up as well as it did, the older I get. There seem to be fewer and fewer names favored by the younger name enthusiasts here, that I like, and more of them that make me grimace. I guess that's inevitable and I'm fine with it, and I think I'll learn to like them more after I see them used as the names of actual young people.
- mirfak
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My late mother had a colleague known as Dora who turned out to be an actual Deborah with a novel nn. I thought she'd have been better off as a Deborah, but clearly she didn't!