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HelpRe: Harper vs Harlow
in reply to a message by RDNZL
UGH.
I'd have to go with Harper, because at least Harper is just another fashiony surname-name that doesn't know what or whom it refers to. It's just like Madison, only ugly.
Harlot, I mean Harlow (haha I just realized that if you pronouce Harlot like Margot it's Harlow), refers pretty much only to Jean Harlow, who's just a pinuppy b&w image - I tend to assume basically nobody knows anything about who she was as a person. That makes it seem fake and imagey to me.
- mirfak
I'd have to go with Harper, because at least Harper is just another fashiony surname-name that doesn't know what or whom it refers to. It's just like Madison, only ugly.
Harlot, I mean Harlow (haha I just realized that if you pronouce Harlot like Margot it's Harlow), refers pretty much only to Jean Harlow, who's just a pinuppy b&w image - I tend to assume basically nobody knows anything about who she was as a person. That makes it seem fake and imagey to me.
- mirfak
This message was edited 9/24/2017, 7:10 PM
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Yeah, it did - but now it's so trendy I think it doesn't anymore. Check out the "namesakes" for Harper http://www.behindthename.com/name/harper/namesakes - it includes some title characters in childrens/YA books. The comments mention another one, too. And it's a celebrity baby name.
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I don't think Jean Harlow is a bad namesake, per se. She was more intelligent than people realized, and a sweet person, by all accounts. Everyone loved her. I can see her screen image being a problem, though, but even that doesn't rub me the wrong way. She was platinum blonde and sexy and all that, but she was also independent. Her movies were pre-Code, so the characters she played were considered edgy, for the time. And now I'll stop rambling, because this doesn't really mean anything, lol.
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Try this ...
On more than one occasion, I've seen more than one South African with the given name of Cezanne. Presumably an attempt to make Suzanne just that little bit different!
On more than one occasion, I've seen more than one South African with the given name of Cezanne. Presumably an attempt to make Suzanne just that little bit different!
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That's interesting. I kind of like the way Cezanne sounds, but he wasn't a nice guy. I wouldn't use it to name a baby girl.
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