When we chose our kids' names, we did so with some care. We tried to make the names not too freaky, and chose short names to give them a preschool advantage, since our eight-letter last name paired with a seven-letter middle name is enough for a young child to learn how to spell. Four letters (Rhys) for our son, three letters (Zoe) for our daughter, and we often just shorten her name to z. No D'Artagnon, no Krystynya, no Ford (although we told people for a while that Rhys was going to be Ford, just to get them to stop asking about baby names), no Se7en, and certainly no Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.
I have to wonder what kind of adult life these parents thought their daughter would have, with a name like that. It's like naming your daughter after a teenage prostitute in a movie and being surprised that she turns out to be a drug-addled narcissistic schizophrenic who can't hold down a job. It's like naming your daughter Destiny or Neveah and being surprised that the tools of her trade are pasties and a brass pole. Who names their daughter 'heaven' backwards, anyway? What's the opposite of heaven?
(h/t AoS headlines)
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