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I said it before, but I'll say it again: there's a difference between the non-etymologically "made-up" and "made-up" as in "I've made up this name by combining x etymological element and y etymological element".

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Here, names like Kashynleigh or Taniqua are generally frowned upon because they're made up out of etymologically meaningless pretty-sounding elements. On the other hand, a name like Mativa, made up out of the Germanic elements maht "might"/"strength" and iv "yew", has a legitimate, etymologically tracible meaning. (Of course, Mativa isn't kewt like McKynleigh is, and probably wouldn't appeal to tryndees... but oh well.)

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This is an etymology board that just happens to focus on names. When someone says "made up" here, 99% of the time they're talking about the non-etymological made up unless it's specifically stated otherwise by context.

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This is off-topic to this post, but I just wanted to clarify what "made up" generally means here. Er... Chinese parents do follow the etymologically-meaningful kind of "made up"... See, I made this post on-topic! :-D

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EDIT: + last paragraph

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Miranda
"...his fingers trailing over your belly, your thighs quacking..." — From a The Lord of the Rings crapfic

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Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks.

This message was edited 5/10/2005, 6:47 PM