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Help[Opinions] Re: Quintuplets
in reply to a message by Bex
Interesting, but hard to make sense of.
Keith is amazing - such a stereotype of a retiree. Good name, excellent in fact, but it's been unused for so long, you've got to wonder: Why now?
Ali is unfortunate. Why, when there are names like Alice, Alison, Alastriona, even Alexandra, would anyone settle for just Ali? Especially since she'll be mistaken for a Moslem man every time she fills in a form.
Penelope is splendid - mildly fashionable, a classic for millennia, lots of nn possibilities, which brings me back to Ali! Why not Penny or Nell?
Tiffany is dated beyond redemption and was never distinguished when it was new.
Beatrix is also a puzzle; like Beatrice, it's getting some mileage and might perhaps be a good partner for Penelope, but it doesn't fit at all with the rest.
And then the others: Kurt is charmless and abrupt and too macho for comfort. Aiva is malformed - IEva, AYva, perhaps even AY-EEva! And Indiana is yet another sore thumb of a name. Usually there's a pattern to be discerned, but not here.
Keith is amazing - such a stereotype of a retiree. Good name, excellent in fact, but it's been unused for so long, you've got to wonder: Why now?
Ali is unfortunate. Why, when there are names like Alice, Alison, Alastriona, even Alexandra, would anyone settle for just Ali? Especially since she'll be mistaken for a Moslem man every time she fills in a form.
Penelope is splendid - mildly fashionable, a classic for millennia, lots of nn possibilities, which brings me back to Ali! Why not Penny or Nell?
Tiffany is dated beyond redemption and was never distinguished when it was new.
Beatrix is also a puzzle; like Beatrice, it's getting some mileage and might perhaps be a good partner for Penelope, but it doesn't fit at all with the rest.
And then the others: Kurt is charmless and abrupt and too macho for comfort. Aiva is malformed - IEva, AYva, perhaps even AY-EEva! And Indiana is yet another sore thumb of a name. Usually there's a pattern to be discerned, but not here.
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