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I stumbled across the website for The Institute for Naming Children Humanely and now I'm curious as to what comments others here may have on it.
http://inch.stormpages.com/
INCH states that: "Mocked, stereotyped, and ostracized children grow to become demented adults." So, people, don't say you weren't warned when all the little Jennifers and Roberts in the schoolyard persecute your little Tamsins and Atticuses. :)
In all fairness, though, I think the website makes a few good points about naming. But in the section titled "Multicultural Mish-Mash" the writer comes off as having "issues" with multiculturalism in general by including the names of Bernardo O'Higgins (who wasn't even born in the U.S.A.) and Eamon De Valera at the end of an article complaining about American naming trends supposedly having come about since the 1960s. (Ivan Rodriguez, at least, was born after the '60s.)
Eamon de Valera's New York City name didn't offend or confuse the people of Ireland whom he supported at the beginning of the last century, and who eventually elected him their President.
But I can see how the combination of two different cultures in a single name might be disturbing to some Americans who find comfort in stereotyping, and who might have been driving themselves crazy with the question: Was Eamon de Valera really an Irishman or a Hispanic?
-- Nanaea
http://inch.stormpages.com/
INCH states that: "Mocked, stereotyped, and ostracized children grow to become demented adults." So, people, don't say you weren't warned when all the little Jennifers and Roberts in the schoolyard persecute your little Tamsins and Atticuses. :)
In all fairness, though, I think the website makes a few good points about naming. But in the section titled "Multicultural Mish-Mash" the writer comes off as having "issues" with multiculturalism in general by including the names of Bernardo O'Higgins (who wasn't even born in the U.S.A.) and Eamon De Valera at the end of an article complaining about American naming trends supposedly having come about since the 1960s. (Ivan Rodriguez, at least, was born after the '60s.)
Eamon de Valera's New York City name didn't offend or confuse the people of Ireland whom he supported at the beginning of the last century, and who eventually elected him their President.
But I can see how the combination of two different cultures in a single name might be disturbing to some Americans who find comfort in stereotyping, and who might have been driving themselves crazy with the question: Was Eamon de Valera really an Irishman or a Hispanic?
-- Nanaea
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The brown-denim onomastic police
Yikes, I think anyone who would include names such as Andrea and Zoe in a shit-list should be earmarked off medical experiments.
Yes some names are elegant, others are trite and some are plain annoying. So are people. No social or political system has ever managed impose good taste. Wanting to promote only “kosher” names (by anyone’s definition) is at best utopian and at worst totalitarian.
Yikes, I think anyone who would include names such as Andrea and Zoe in a shit-list should be earmarked off medical experiments.
Yes some names are elegant, others are trite and some are plain annoying. So are people. No social or political system has ever managed impose good taste. Wanting to promote only “kosher” names (by anyone’s definition) is at best utopian and at worst totalitarian.
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Why don't you join our fun over at http://members2.boardhost.com/haggisbutt/
I actually got some discussion going there over this. :) Hee-hee, Andrea e-mailed the owner of that website and invited him to read our comments. Andrea cracks me up! LOL!
-- Nanaea
I actually got some discussion going there over this. :) Hee-hee, Andrea e-mailed the owner of that website and invited him to read our comments. Andrea cracks me up! LOL!
-- Nanaea
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Ta cheist agam...
Nanaea,
What did Pavlos ever do to you that you would inflict haggisbutt on him?
I'm sorry if I offend anybody here, but from what I've read on this board in the past about haggisbutt, it's 1.5 to 2 steps above the kabalarians site (a couple of members who post here excepted).
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
Nanaea,
What did Pavlos ever do to you that you would inflict haggisbutt on him?
I'm sorry if I offend anybody here, but from what I've read on this board in the past about haggisbutt, it's 1.5 to 2 steps above the kabalarians site (a couple of members who post here excepted).
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
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Fortunately the few cool HB folks (Andrea, Zelda, etc) also make appearances here :)
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Actually, there are a number of cool folks over there who don't post here. :)
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Ah, Haggisbutt has got a few cool people on it, although that population has recently been reduced by one.
-- Nanaea
-- Nanaea
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