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I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.

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What a tragedeigh

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Or tragideh if you’re Canadian

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Is there a similar community for these here on lemmy?

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Start one, call it lemmeigh

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I just made one. Idk how to link it but you can find it on my profile.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

This one is truly a… Mystereigh

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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76 points

You’re just sentencing your child to forever have to spell out their name to strangers

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Meh, depending on the last name that might happen anyway. I just spell out my last name by default now.

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38 points

Trying to be Irish without setting foot in the old country for 5 generations

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“It’s spelled Seamus, but I go by James”

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It doesn’t even sound Irish, it just sounds extremely white American

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Reminds me of the article about black Americans visiting Africa and being devastated that they weren’t “welcomed home” but rather just treated as visiting American tourists.

It’s cute

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I worked under someone at an old job who named his son Jaxon. And kept pictures Jaxon drew and signed on the wall of his office. So every time I needed something from him, I would have to see Jaxon’s name in his office. And I hated it.

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Was his middle name Mississippi?

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Did Jaxon use Jaxon Crayons?

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I have no idea.

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We might have the same employer! Or at least I hope so, I can’t imagine two different sets of parents deciding that “Jackson” is just too boring

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It was a long time ago and he quit before I did, so doubtful.

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honestly, jaxon is almost acceptable. Much like bryan with a y.

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Did Jaxon have cybernetic arms?

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It reminds Big Literacy that they can’t control our minds

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Because you hate your child but don’t believe in abortion. Just yesterday, I avoided spelling my preferred email on a phone call because a company already had a different address on file.

Ex and I once joked about this subject. We decided it’d be funny to named an unwanted child Paisley.

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Mike Hawk

Jenna Talya

Or just James, but spelled Chaymz

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To keep in line with the conversation thread, Paisleigh

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Whoa! Calling you out on some pretty blatant homophonophobia here!

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I can’t read it as anything other than trinitaaay

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But the pronunciation of Triniteigh would have the sound like “neighbor” so wouldn’t be said like Trinity (tee)…

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Not necessarily. Think Leigh and its relatives (e.g., Ashleigh, Kayleigh, Charleigh*)

*made that one up but still,

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Um, I had someone in my class named Kayleigh, and it was indeed pronounced Kay-lay. I pronounce all these like “lay”, I don’t understand the example.

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Actually

it’s pronounced Trinitay

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genuinely, i think committing crimes against parents of those names should be legal, to a degree.

It’s actually fucking obtuse.

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I was solid confused about how these names are homophobic.

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It’s to add a little uniqueness, and avoid them being the 14th Erica in the classroom, but not going so far as to not give them one of the “normal” names.

Or they just think it looks prettier. It doesn’t have to be about accomplishing something beyond “I like how that looks”.

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I feel like “my child will be burdened by this for the rest of their life” wins over “it looks cool”

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You’d be surprised how little it actually matters. It just means they have to spell it for people occasionally.

My name isn’t common here, but it’s also perfectly well known and spelled in the traditional sense.
I have to spell it for people, and often use a middle name for takeout orders. That’s about the extent of the burden of having an unusual name.
My last name is also perfectly common, and I need to spell it as well.

I’ve seen a lot more “burden” on people with alphabetically late names, since they often are last in line for stuff.

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116 points

Fuck you Wolfgang Atreides is money. I’d follow that baby into battle.

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Also, Leviathan? 100%. And my only problem with Dusti Rose is the “I”.

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Dusti Rose sounds like a matricidal professional wrestler.

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25 points

Definitely a stripper name.

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Gave me folk singer vibes

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Or some telsel product

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Yeah it made me think they wanted to name their son Dusty but had a girl, and tried to feminize it lol

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Sounds like a bit actor for a Weight Watchers ad

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Good luck following into battle an asthmatic baby armed with a mall katana who is easily felled by a whiff of peanuts

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I’m all for unique and clear identifiers for everything, including people, but jesus christ, imagine yourself in elementary school having a weird name. Why would parents choose a hard mode for their progeny?

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I’m a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you’re an author. Perfect compromise.

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We gave our daughter a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant. We just wanted a name that wasn’t religious but still normal enough that she wouldn’t get bullied for it (she got bullied anyway). We realized later that it actually made sense in terms of her ancestry because her mother has a plant name, her grandmother has a plant name and her great-grandmother had a plant name. One long lineage of plant names.

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Dude I see you around here on the regular, so I’ll mention that this is ironic for me to read this, because we also named our daughter an old, obscure but “real” name that is also a plant (a flower, specifically).

It’s from France, so I asked a French friend before using it if it was ok to use and not a weird name, and they said “sure it’s ok, but it’s like an old grandma’s name no one uses anymore.” And that’s when I knew it was the one!

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Wait, it’s all bullying?

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a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant

Describing it like that makes it really tempting to try and guess the name. Out of respect for your and her privacy, I won’t, though.

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Ngl having “Wolfgang” as an example for a weird name was really strange to read for me… but I’m German.

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It’s a pretty common practice where I live for a kid to be named after someone for their first name, but go by their middle name. So I think it’s perfectly fine to have one normal name and one weird name in any order.

A. John Smith is an accountant. Atreyu J. Smith is a musician who wears leather pants and some sort of studded headband.

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Let me introduce you to Marijuana Pepsi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck

The kicker is her parents and siblings have normal names.

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In the fall of 2019, Vandyck sponsored the Marijuana Pepsi Scholarship for first-generation African-American students at UW–Whitewater.

If someone with a brand name… name… starts a same-industry business in their name, or offers a scholarship for nazis, I wonder what kind of recourse the original brand has.

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Now I’m really curious about how people call her in day-to-day life.

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That may be one case where a non medical PhD would be justified in just going by Doc

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mari, or mary.

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Imagine you’re a seven years old little fat kid and your name is Leviathan

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That one I actually like. It’s easy to short it to Levi in public, but still be able to flex among friends.

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I guess if everyone has a weird name, that doesn’t matter. Maybe kids don’t make fun of weird names anymore. Who knows, maybe it’s the Johns and Marys who get made fun of for having uninteresting names.

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My name is a standard name, but super uncommon here. It’s not that bad, since I got picked on about as much as anyone else. It’s not like they won’t just because your name is unremarkable.

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Narcissism

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If you don’t get bullied for your name, you’ll just get bullied for something else. At least with the name you can blame it on your parents, maybe. Kids are assholes.

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Ok but Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides goes pretty hard.

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Well, it TRIES pretty hard 😜

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Except a kid like that automatically has a free pass for eternally being pissed about their father and their father before them not also having had that name so they could be "… the third’!

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But now they can yell “I am Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides, First of my name”!

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4 points

Definitely has some Rogue Trader energy to it.

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I’m not one to judge parents baby names, but Merricka??

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Fuck yeah!

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🫡🦅🍔

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Can’t forget 🔫

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I was considering it, but didn’t wanna shoot the burger.

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