You’re just sentencing your child to forever have to spell out their name to strangers
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Toneswirly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year ago
Trying to be Irish without setting foot in the old country for 5 generations
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
“It’s spelled Seamus, but I go by James”
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year ago
It doesn’t even sound Irish, it just sounds extremely white American
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Was his middle name Mississippi?
manucode@feddit.de 1 year ago
Did Jaxon use Jaxon Crayons?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have no idea.
uncreativechap@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
It was a long time ago and he quit before I did, so doubtful.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
honestly, jaxon is almost acceptable. Much like bryan with a y.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Did Jason have cybernetic arms?
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It reminds Big Literacy that they can’t control our minds
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year 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 1 year ago
Payniese
Mike Hawk
Jenna Talya
Or just James, but spelled Chaymz
root_beer@midwest.social 1 year ago
To keep in line with the conversation thread, Paisleigh
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Whoa! Calling you out on some pretty blatant homophonophobia here!
esc27@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can’t read it as anything other than trinitaaay
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
But the pronunciation of Triniteigh would have the sound like “neighbor” so wouldn’t be said like Trinity (tee)…
root_beer@midwest.social 1 year ago
Not necessarily. Think Leigh and its relatives (e.g., Ashleigh, Kayleigh, Charleigh*)
*made that one up but still,
wellee@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Actually
it’s pronounced Trinitay
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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 1 year ago
I was solid confused about how these names are homophobic.
Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What a tragedeigh
DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Or tragideh if you’re Canadian
SeekPie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Is there a similar community for these on here?
root_beer@midwest.social 1 year ago
Start one, call it lemmeigh
Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Brilleighant.
SeekPie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
As you wish: lemm.ee/c/lemmeigh
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I just made one. Idk how to link it but you can find it on my profile.
Gabu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This one is truly a… Mystereigh