Message: "Gabriel and Judith [eta Gregory, Juliet, Lorelei, Raphael]"

This is a reply within a larger thread: view the whole thread

Gabriel and Judith [eta Gregory, Juliet, Lorelei, Raphael]

by Schezar

3/2/2009, 3:06 PM

Gabe and Judy = icky.

Greg, Julie, Lorie and Rafe/Raphie all make me want to vomit. Why mess with such beautiful names to begin with? How can you possibly want to say Lorie over Lorelei? How can you not revel over saying it all out the long way? Lorelei. Loreleeeeiiiii. Lorrrrrelei. Come on. Lorie? No!

I don't tend to think in nickname mode, because I know the names and combos I come up with will never be used on real people, so I can be as rigid/fanciful/strict as I like. All names I like are full names, never nicknames (except Lena for Helena (heh-LEH-na) and Pasha for Pavel).

Ok, let's see...

Aliz could become Al or Liz, which are gross.
Asha could be Ash, ew.
Salvador =/= Sal.
Montserrat =/= Monty.
Tamar =/= Tam.

Luckily most of the names I like can be shortened to things I actually like (Wesley to Wes, Isobel to Izzy and so on.)

This message was edited 3/2/2009, 3:24 PM

Replies

- khaotickharma

3/3/2009, 7:56 AM

When I hear Raphael...

... I want to shorten it to Rafa, always. I think it's because of Naadal.

- Llewella (penguiny7)

3/2/2009, 4:28 PM

Gregory

I don't really like Greg either, but I think Rory could work as a nn. Which is good because I adore Gregory.

- Dracotorix +1

3/2/2009, 3:47 PM

I'm just replying to this because I know a Judith who has a son named Gabriel! Just thought that was funny. I agree on the names, too.

- Schezar

3/2/2009, 3:58 PM

Haha, funny!

- Lily8 +1

3/2/2009, 3:11 PM

Tamar - Tam breaks my heart :P imagine you name your kid the beautiful interesting Tamar and people call her Tam. To me that's as bad as calling Seraphina "Sera" or Emmeline "Emma".

- Schezar

3/2/2009, 3:16 PM

*nods*

Oh I know. It's for that reason exactly that I hate people calling me "Shay". Not that they ever do. But it just gives me the shivers!

- elsie (scholasticastewart)

3/2/2009, 3:10 PM

Love Gabriel and Judith!

View Message

Replies