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

PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• TragicNotCute@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Found Raddix Zephyr

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol honestly I wouldn’t even mind. Where I grew up, that’d be a pretty cool name as a kid. Maybe not as an adult, but most adults I know can keep that shit to themselves.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Adults that keep their names to themselves?

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    • TragicNotCute@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s pretty badass. I sure wouldn’t name my kid that, but in abstract, it’s dope.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Such as?

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, hippie culture used names like “summer” and “rain” which are bonkers but we got used to it.

    I watched an interview with someone who was named after a car part and they said it was fairly common, but I can’t find that interview to figure out what country it was anymore.

    Old names that span cultures often have wildly different spellings, or pronunciations that don’t seem to make sense in English (like pretty much any Celtic name). It’s one thing to appropriate that culture, it’s another thing to say that names taken or derived from that culture are stupid. People move. People have parents or grandparents from other places. I don’t think it’s reasonable to say the name is bad just because it’s spelled unusually or is something that isn’t typically a name where we live.

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      yeah, but the difference here is that summer and rain were actual words. And that nobody uses them today, because they’re terrible names.

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      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Why is it better if a name is an English word? In fact isn’t that exactly why you’re saying they’re terrible names?

        And it’s cute that you think those names fell out of fashion because they’re “bad” and that they won’t be back in a couple generation along with all the names that were popular at the same time as those ones.

        In the meantime, why don’t we shit on names like “john” which is a stupid misspelling of the original Yohanan?

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