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HelpOpinion on made up names?
I really dislike most made up names, but I like literary made up names( Vanessa, Miranda). What's your opinion on them?
This message was edited 9/22/2018, 8:56 PM
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some are good, like Vanessa and , but some are just like...........
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I knew a girl named Shalaia. I like that name.
Isaree
Lothira
Sephina
I knew a girl named Shalaia. I like that name.
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Made up names can be quite meaningful. My name here, "misabi," is a made up name that comes from my real name.
AND I know lots of people with a GREAT story behind their name, because their parents were thoughtful and creative in their made up name. So on the whole I think it can be a positive because it shows serious consideration and thoughtfulness.
AND I know lots of people with a GREAT story behind their name, because their parents were thoughtful and creative in their made up name. So on the whole I think it can be a positive because it shows serious consideration and thoughtfulness.
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I wouldn't use a made up name for my own children for various reasons, but it depends on the individual made-up name, I guess? Though a lot of made-up names end up looking either childish or weird. Otherwise, I'm not particularly obsessed with using only names that have special etymologies, etc.
I wouldn't put Vanessa and Miranda in the same category, though, because they've been around for a long time and have history, plus I wouldn't call Miranda for instance, "made up", it means "to be admired" in Latin, it's not more made up than say, Amanda.
I wouldn't put Vanessa and Miranda in the same category, though, because they've been around for a long time and have history, plus I wouldn't call Miranda for instance, "made up", it means "to be admired" in Latin, it's not more made up than say, Amanda.
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I don't have an opinion on "made up names" as a whole because that's not a style. There are some styles I like and some I don't like, and some recently invented names sound more classic to me and some old names sound made up. All names are made up anyway, so I don't really see the point in calling some names "made up" just because they were made up more recently than some other names.
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I often like them, especially when I think they could pass for traditional names that I just haven't ever heard of before.
If they have trendy-seeming elements I tend not to like them so much.
Some outdated trendy-seeming invention-seeming names, seem less bad to me - so maybe someday I'll feel the same about Everleigh and Kylen as I do about Ferlene and Lillard. Like, they're quaint and interesting?
Mostly I just either like or dislike invented names for the same reasons I like and dislike traditional names - according to whether I like how they look and sound, and other associations I might have.
I don't find literary inventions any more or less appealing than I do other inventions.
If they have trendy-seeming elements I tend not to like them so much.
Some outdated trendy-seeming invention-seeming names, seem less bad to me - so maybe someday I'll feel the same about Everleigh and Kylen as I do about Ferlene and Lillard. Like, they're quaint and interesting?
Mostly I just either like or dislike invented names for the same reasons I like and dislike traditional names - according to whether I like how they look and sound, and other associations I might have.
I don't find literary inventions any more or less appealing than I do other inventions.
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Miranda has a meaning, which doesn't really make it a 'made up name' to me. Even Vanessa has some meaning behind it, and now you could even say it means a certain type of butterfly.
I would have more problems with a name that is made up without any reference to anything meaningful. But even then, if it's first used in literature and later someone names a child after a specific literary character it's not without meaning.
I would have more problems with a name that is made up without any reference to anything meaningful. But even then, if it's first used in literature and later someone names a child after a specific literary character it's not without meaning.
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I don't think the meaning really matters in terms of whether or not a name is made up. As long as you're the first person to pick a certain root word and stick a namey suffix on it, you can say that you "made up" that name.
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agree ...
When you get right down to it, all names are made-up, just some a long time before others. Somebody had to make up Adam and Eve, even.
When you get right down to it, all names are made-up, just some a long time before others. Somebody had to make up Adam and Eve, even.
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I don't have a problem with made-up names, some can be very interesting, as long as they don't sound too "out there" (they're not too long/too futuristic/don't overuse the letter y).
As a writer I come up with names all the time, the trick is to create a name that sounds like it could already exist in some culture, by either altering an existing name or borrowing name elements commonly found in the culture you want to emulate.
As a writer I come up with names all the time, the trick is to create a name that sounds like it could already exist in some culture, by either altering an existing name or borrowing name elements commonly found in the culture you want to emulate.
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