guys, what’s the coolest first name you’ve ever seen or heard in person?
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@roknrol This is perhaps a personal question, but do you find that people get weirdly offended when you say things like that? I was raised by an abusive grandmother and I often express relief and joy that she's dead, and people can be SO WEIRD about that. It's refreshing to hear someone else say a hearty "good riddance" about a family member.
@astronomerritt Yeah, people are very weird about it. More weird when i was younger than these days though. People really don't seem to like the idea that someone's absence could be so welcome. I feel, perhaps, that they might be inspecting their own relationship with their kids in those moments.
I'm autistic...there is not much that i wont overshare 🤣
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@roknrol This is perhaps a personal question, but do you find that people get weirdly offended when you say things like that? I was raised by an abusive grandmother and I often express relief and joy that she's dead, and people can be SO WEIRD about that. It's refreshing to hear someone else say a hearty "good riddance" about a family member.
@astronomerritt @roknrol They don’t suddenly become good people just because they did the decent thing for once and died. It’s important not to whitewash dead people imo
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@emma_cogdev Moss is a really cute name! I like nature nouns for names.
Me too! And I was just thinking there's a definite difference between the 60/70s flower child names and the nonbinary nature names I'm hearing recently, though I'm not sure exactly what the difference is. I also met a Winter recently and I really liked that too.
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@astronomerritt @roknrol They don’t suddenly become good people just because they did the decent thing for once and died. It’s important not to whitewash dead people imo
@maia @astronomerritt I absolutely agree with this.
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@astronomerritt Yeah, people are very weird about it. More weird when i was younger than these days though. People really don't seem to like the idea that someone's absence could be so welcome. I feel, perhaps, that they might be inspecting their own relationship with their kids in those moments.
I'm autistic...there is not much that i wont overshare 🤣
@roknrol I don't have autism as an excuse, I just don't see the point of lying about her or pretending I'm sad she's gone. She didn't deserve that.
I think people really are thinking about their own family when they react, and I think a lot of them are coming from a place of privilege where they have nice families they get along well with, and can't seem to comprehend that some of us are related to irredeemable arseholes.
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@maia @astronomerritt I absolutely agree with this.
@roknrol Same, 100%.
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@Emmacox Aviellria is really unusual! Do you know where it came from?
I also really like Verity.
Also, yes, that is EXACTLY what would have happened in my brain if I came across a kid called Eben. I get that song stuck in my head a lot as it is, for some reason.
@astronomerritt I don't, and sadly my FIL passed away two years ago not long after his sister so there isn't anyone left to ask.
I do like many of the Cornish names, like Kerenza, Elowen, Morwenna, Blejan.
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Me too! And I was just thinking there's a definite difference between the 60/70s flower child names and the nonbinary nature names I'm hearing recently, though I'm not sure exactly what the difference is. I also met a Winter recently and I really liked that too.
@emma_cogdev I think a lot of the non-binary names are blunter and less "pretty", if that makes sense? There seems to be more of a willingness to name yourself after something that maybe isn't conventionally or universally pleasing.
I also met a Winter recently! Also non-binary, and an extremely cool person.
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@astronomerritt I don't, and sadly my FIL passed away two years ago not long after his sister so there isn't anyone left to ask.
I do like many of the Cornish names, like Kerenza, Elowen, Morwenna, Blejan.
@Emmacox Cornish names are fabulous. I'm always going to be biased towards Brittonic and Celtic names, I think. Breton names are cool as hell too.
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@roknrol I don't have autism as an excuse, I just don't see the point of lying about her or pretending I'm sad she's gone. She didn't deserve that.
I think people really are thinking about their own family when they react, and I think a lot of them are coming from a place of privilege where they have nice families they get along well with, and can't seem to comprehend that some of us are related to irredeemable arseholes.
@roknrol ...not that I'm saying autism is an excuse. That came out wrong 😖
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@roknrol I don't have autism as an excuse, I just don't see the point of lying about her or pretending I'm sad she's gone. She didn't deserve that.
I think people really are thinking about their own family when they react, and I think a lot of them are coming from a place of privilege where they have nice families they get along well with, and can't seem to comprehend that some of us are related to irredeemable arseholes.
@astronomerritt I think you're right. They want to be remembered well and think about all the nasty shit that they have done.
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@Emmacox Cornish names are fabulous. I'm always going to be biased towards Brittonic and Celtic names, I think. Breton names are cool as hell too.
@astronomerritt oh they are. I do tend to peruse them for inspiration when I'm making up fantasy names.
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@roknrol ...not that I'm saying autism is an excuse. That came out wrong 😖
@astronomerritt I figured 🙂
I was just saying i was autistic because there's very little about myself that's 'too personal' to share
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@sar That's got to be where the parents got the name from, right?
@astronomerritt @sar Not big enough fans if they missed the fact that Morse was so embarrassed about it that he never used it.
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@astronomerritt @sar Not big enough fans if they missed the fact that Morse was so embarrassed about it that he never used it.
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guys, what’s the coolest first name you’ve ever seen or heard in person? doesn’t have to be a name you’d give your own kid, just something that made you go “damn, what a cool name”.
I ask because one of my nephew’s besties is called Endeavour and that is a COOL name.
(his mates call him Noun, which is hilarious)
@astronomerritt I know someone called ‘Jim Slaine’ - Jim is not overly cool, but the 2 names together sound like a cowboy from a classic western.
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@astronomerritt I know someone called ‘Jim Slaine’ - Jim is not overly cool, but the 2 names together sound like a cowboy from a classic western.
@DrChris Oooh, I can definitely hear that being snarled by some dodgy tobacco-chewing type as Jim himself strides into the saloon.
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guys, what’s the coolest first name you’ve ever seen or heard in person? doesn’t have to be a name you’d give your own kid, just something that made you go “damn, what a cool name”.
I ask because one of my nephew’s besties is called Endeavour and that is a COOL name.
(his mates call him Noun, which is hilarious)
Nigerians have the best first names and it's not close. I knew a guy called Truth.
Like, lots of languages have names which translate as "Truth", but using the word itself is just far more interesting.
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Nigerians have the best first names and it's not close. I knew a guy called Truth.
Like, lots of languages have names which translate as "Truth", but using the word itself is just far more interesting.
@passenger I don't disagree. And "Truth" is an AMAZING name.
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@hedders Oh dear. Bless their little hearts. I do think a lot of these virtue names are a lot to saddle a child with. What if Unique wants to be basic?
@astronomerritt heh. Yeah. It’s like that Pratchett joke about how Bestiality Carter got his name.
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