Funny names

[Beachlife!]

I gotta admit I like the name.

Though I have to admit I've never understood why some people who use unconventional spelling get upset when someone can't pronounce the name on the first try.

[RivkahChaya]

I hear that. If you are going to name your daughter Khatharhynne, you should not complain that people have to stare at it a while before figuring out it's "Katherine." If you wanted things to be easy, you should have named her Katherine.

[Nick Theodorakis]

Originally Posted by Eve MG

THANK YOU! I thought I was going crazy - I have heard it too - on TV where they show the web address and it is clearly a forward slash, not a backslash. When did people get this idea? Does it sound more computer-y? Like, "Hey, I remember back in the days of DOS when it was c-colon-backslash"?

The odd thing is, that the backslash ("\") is an allowed character in URLs. It's possible to have a file or resource that contains one, but some popular browsers (cough*IE*cough) would probably choke on it.

Nick

[Esprise Me]

Originally Posted by Beachlife!

Though I have to admit I've never understood why some people who use unconventional spelling get upset when someone can't pronounce the name on the first try.

Well, I feel for the kids who get stuck with unconventionally-spelled names and have to explain them every day until they're old enough to do something about it.

[Yleemjseg]

Is "the dash don't be silent" a direct quote? If not, then the teller of the story might well be using it to indicate race and invoke the stereotype of the lower-class uneducated black person with theit poor linguistic skills. Except in AAVE (African-American Vernacular English), that sentence is grammatical. AAVE has a different set of grammatical rules from "standard" English. It is not simply "poor linguistic skills".

As for the name, it's creative, and would (as previously mentioned) be a neat shorthand for one's name, a parent should expect people to have issues pronouncing it, as they're not used to pronouncing punctuation.

I'm gonna name my next child M@. Or M&y, if it's a girl. Or Ma~.

[Nick Theodorakis]

Originally Posted by Yleemjseg

...
I'm gonna name my next child M@. Or M&y, if it's a girl. ...

Mampersandy??

Nick

[Yleemjseg]

I was kinda thinking "Mandy", but "Mampersandy" is WAY cooler!

[Nick Theodorakis]

Actually, "Ampersandy" would be a pretty cool name.

Nick

[Eve MG]

Originally Posted by Yleemjseg

As for the name, it's creative, and would (as previously mentioned) be a neat shorthand for one's name,

I hadn't even thought of that. I know a Janine who uses J9 in her email address. (I'm pretty sure she signs formal documents with letters and not numbers, though.)

[Le Chevalier Blanc]

When I was in college, someone had asked how I spell my name and I jokingly answered "D-a-3-v-e. The 3 is silent".

Strangely, this came in useful when I went to work for a large company where 7% of the work force was named "Dave" or "David". I started signing my E-mails as "Da3ve" so that folks would easily know which "Dave" it was...

[Xia]

Originally Posted by Yleemjseg

I'm gonna name my next child M@. Or M&y, if it's a girl. Or Ma~.

I kinda like the idea of Ma~ but I also thought M&y was Mampersandy.

[snopes]

If I had a son, I'd name him > Top

Originally Posted by snopes

If I had a son, I'd name him > Top

Which is why we're not having kids, dear, because I can't see naming anyone "Greater Than Top."

Your earlier suggestion, Wallstreet Panic Mikkelson, is beginning to look reasonable in comparison.

[MegansMom]

Originally Posted by snopes

If I had a son, I'd name him > Top

Or ^top. But that only works if he's a redhead.

[Jusenkyo no Pikachu]

Originally Posted by Barbara

Which is why we're not having kids, dear, because I can't see naming anyone "Greater Than Top."

Your earlier suggestion, Wallstreet Panic Mikkelson, is beginning to look reasonable in comparison.

Chevron Top?
Closing Angle Bracket Top?
Diamond Bracket Top?

If I have kids, one name will have to be ‽. Because "‽ Palmer" would get all the friends.

[MegansMom]

Originally Posted by Jusenkyo no Pikachu

Chevron Top?
Closing Angle Bracket Top?
Diamond Bracket Top?

If I have kids, one name will have to be ‽. Because "‽ Palmer" would get all the friends.

Caret top (Carrot Top)

car·et /ˈkærɪt/ –noun
a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.

Originally Posted by matches

I recall in highschool thinking that an exceptionally cool name would be elipsis spelled ... so that when people would read it, they might think that the name had simply been omited.

Originally Posted by Nick Theodorakis

Actually, "Ampersandy" would be a pretty cool name.

My cats are named Ellipsis and Ampersand. I do usually spell the names though... And why yes, I am a language student.

[Ramblin' Dave]

Originally Posted by Esprise Me

Well, I feel for the kids who get stuck with unconventionally-spelled names and have to explain them every day until they're old enough to do something about it.

To say nothing of those of us whose names are spelled in a perfectly orthodox way that follows normal phonics rules, and yet people manage to butcher the name all the time. It wouldn't bother me half so much if people asked, rather than assuming...or worse yet, asking "Is it Mispronunciation 1 or Mispronunciation 2?"

(I refer to my last name. No, nobody has ever mispronounced Dave, although if they followed their own misperceptions of how my last name ought to be pronounced, Dave would be pronounced "Davy".)

[robbiev]

Originally Posted by Ramblin' Dave

To say nothing of those of us whose names are spelled in a perfectly orthodox way that follows normal phonics rules, and yet people manage to butcher the name all the time.

I get that quite a bit too, and my last name is a common American last name (Robinson).

It boggles my mind how often people see "Robinson" but think it's pronounced "Robertson" or "Robison" or "Robson." Very seldom does anyone pronounce it correctly. I even had a teacher once who pronounced it "Robingson" although she may have had some sort of, well, I don't want to say disability because that's almost certainly not the right word, but she insisted she couldn't hear any difference between "Robin" and "Robing" even when I overemphasised the "g." She was clearly adding the "g" to my name, but instisted she wasn't even though every other student the in the class told her they heard it.

Originally Posted by Yleemjseg

I'm gonna name my next child M@. Or M&y, if it's a girl. Or Ma~.

Or |er.

Of course, . has been a girl's name for a long time.