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HelpAgreed.
in reply to a message by mirfak
I offer opinions like the ones Rox is questioning often and for the same reasons that you do. I do not do it to avoid being offensive and I usually offer them more when someone else is really considering a name for a real child or it's a BA.
Sometimes I find a name that is aesthetically pleasing to me to be an objectively bad name. For example, I think the sound of Nevaeh is very pretty but it's a terrible name for a human. I love the name Bridget but while I don't find the sound ugly like mirfak does, it isn't a beautiful sounding name and I can understand why someone would find that sound 'ugly'. Or then there are names that I find very ugly, like Zoe, but I recognize that is subjective and if someone is asking for opinions on a name that may influence whether or not they use it in real life, they are probably looking for associations or any objective objections to the name...unless of course the name is considered 'ugly' by almost every commenter and then maybe that it is widely considered to be aesthetically unpleasing could be a point against it.
Sometimes I find a name that is aesthetically pleasing to me to be an objectively bad name. For example, I think the sound of Nevaeh is very pretty but it's a terrible name for a human. I love the name Bridget but while I don't find the sound ugly like mirfak does, it isn't a beautiful sounding name and I can understand why someone would find that sound 'ugly'. Or then there are names that I find very ugly, like Zoe, but I recognize that is subjective and if someone is asking for opinions on a name that may influence whether or not they use it in real life, they are probably looking for associations or any objective objections to the name...unless of course the name is considered 'ugly' by almost every commenter and then maybe that it is widely considered to be aesthetically unpleasing could be a point against it.
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