Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name.

Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What a tragedeigh

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  • DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or tragideh if you’re Canadian

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  • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is there a similar community for these on here?

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    • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Start one, call it lemmeigh

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      • Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Brilleighant.

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      • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As you wish: lemm.ee/c/lemmeigh

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This one is truly a… Mystereigh

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• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨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

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  • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • raynethackery@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Was his middle name Mississippi?

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  • manucode@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did Jaxon use Jaxon Crayons?

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have no idea.

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  • uncreativechap@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did Jason have cybernetic arms?

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• ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Payniese

    Mike Hawk

    Jenna Talya

    Or just James, but spelled Chaymz

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  • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To keep in line with the conversation thread, Paisleigh

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• esc27@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t read it as anything other than trinitaaay

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• ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨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”.

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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• wellee@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    *made that one up but still,

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    • wellee@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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      • root_beer@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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• rothaine@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actually

  it’s pronounced Trinitay

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was solid confused about how these names are homophobic.

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