You’re just sentencing your child to forever have to spell out their name to strangers
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Toneswirly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Meh, depending on the last name that might happen anyway. I just spell out my last name by default now.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Trying to be Irish without setting foot in the old country for 5 generations
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
“It’s spelled Seamus, but I go by James”
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
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 Americans.
It’s cute
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It doesn’t even sound Irish, it just sounds extremely white American
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
raynethackery@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Was his middle name Mississippi?
manucode@feddit.de 3 months ago
Did Jaxon use Jaxon Crayons?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have no idea.
uncreativechap@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It was a long time ago and he quit before I did, so doubtful.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
honestly, jaxon is almost acceptable. Much like bryan with a y.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Did Jason have cybernetic arms?
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It reminds Big Literacy that they can’t control our minds
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
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.
Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Payniese
Mike Hawk
Jenna Talya
Or just James, but spelled Chaymz
root_beer@midwest.social 3 months ago
To keep in line with the conversation thread, Paisleigh
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Whoa! Calling you out on some pretty blatant homophonophobia here!
esc27@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I can’t read it as anything other than trinitaaay
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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”.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I feel like “my child will be burdened by this for the rest of their life” wins over “it looks cool”
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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.
wellee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But the pronunciation of Triniteigh would have the sound like “neighbor” so wouldn’t be said like Trinity (tee)…
root_beer@midwest.social 3 months ago
Not necessarily. Think Leigh and its relatives (e.g., Ashleigh, Kayleigh, Charleigh*)
*made that one up but still,
wellee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
root_beer@midwest.social 3 months ago
Hm. In my experience, -eigh has always been pronounced -ee. In most cases, Leigh is a homophone of Lee, as it comes from an English word meaning “meadow”, and you’ll find many pronunciation guides that confirm this. Not that I find it all that intuitive, I would have assumed it to be pronounced -lay myself, like sleigh or eight. English is dumb like that, and if you or anyone else wants to pronounce it -lay, nothing should stop you.
rothaine@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Actually
it’s pronounced Trinitay
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
genuinely, i think committing crimes against parents of those names should be legal, to a degree.
It’s actually fucking obtuse.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I was solid confused about how these names are homophobic.
Orbituary@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What a tragedeigh
DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Or tragideh if you’re Canadian
SeekPie@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Is there a similar community for these on here?
root_beer@midwest.social 3 months ago
Start one, call it lemmeigh
Orbituary@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Brilleighant.
SeekPie@lemm.ee 3 months ago
As you wish: lemm.ee/c/lemmeigh
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I just made one. Idk how to link it but you can find it on my profile.
Gabu@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This one is truly a… Mystereigh