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HelpEvander, Leander, Otto, and Lana
Thoughts?
I'm really liking the combo Otto Evander, and I especially like Otto with my top boys' name, August, as they're both very WWI German soldier to me.
Much obliged!
Ottilie
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I'm really liking the combo Otto Evander, and I especially like Otto with my top boys' name, August, as they're both very WWI German soldier to me.
Much obliged!
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Evander and Leander are both great. I've liked them for a while. I think I prefer Leander because I'm not keen on Evan. Otto Evander sounds awesome.
Otto is super cool. I can see it easily on a little kid, but in my head it's hard to take a grown-up Otto seriously. I think that about loads of names though, and then I meet someone with the name and suddenly it seems perfectly normal on an adult! Otto and August are very nice together. I quite like August, much more than Augustus.
Lana I also really like, probably influenced by the fact that I like Lana Del Rey - and Lana's not even her real name! It's short but full on its own, and it doesn't sound childish.
Otto is super cool. I can see it easily on a little kid, but in my head it's hard to take a grown-up Otto seriously. I think that about loads of names though, and then I meet someone with the name and suddenly it seems perfectly normal on an adult! Otto and August are very nice together. I quite like August, much more than Augustus.
Lana I also really like, probably influenced by the fact that I like Lana Del Rey - and Lana's not even her real name! It's short but full on its own, and it doesn't sound childish.
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Thank you! I can definitely understand where you're coming from with Otto seeming a tad difficult to take seriously on an adult.
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I like Evander and Leander. I'd use Evan and Leo as nicknames.
Otto and August start with the same vowel sound in my accent and are much too close for brothers, but maybe they sound different in your accent. Either way, Otto is a bad German stereotype IMO. I don't care for it.
Lana is such a snotty, nasty name to me. Lana is the meanest, snobbiest cheerleader. When you add in pronunciation issues (LAH-na? LAN-ah? LANE-ah?), the fact that it spells "anal" backwards, and the nicknamey/insubstantial feel, I hate it. Sorry.
Otto and August start with the same vowel sound in my accent and are much too close for brothers, but maybe they sound different in your accent. Either way, Otto is a bad German stereotype IMO. I don't care for it.
Lana is such a snotty, nasty name to me. Lana is the meanest, snobbiest cheerleader. When you add in pronunciation issues (LAH-na? LAN-ah? LANE-ah?), the fact that it spells "anal" backwards, and the nicknamey/insubstantial feel, I hate it. Sorry.
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Bah, Evan is the reason I've already relegated Evander to the middle name spot!
Otto and August definitely begin differently for me, but I know how similar they are in a lot of north American accents. I say OT-o and AW-gust, or AW-to and OW-goost if I'm being a little pretentious.
I understand the dislike for Lana, what I can't understand is why I like it!
Otto and August definitely begin differently for me, but I know how similar they are in a lot of north American accents. I say OT-o and AW-gust, or AW-to and OW-goost if I'm being a little pretentious.
I understand the dislike for Lana, what I can't understand is why I like it!
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Yeah, "ot" and "awt" are identical in my accent (they both sound like the A in father: AH-to and AH-gust). Yay for California, land of the vowel mergers! :D
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