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Re: Also: Babynames.com is crap when it comes to accurate meanings. nt
Couldn't we find a more polite term to express this? "Babynames.com is often inaccurate when it comes to name origins" would do and not sound like an opinion, and opinions seem to be disliked on this board.
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No, it's fact that Babynames.com isn't to be trustedIt's notoriously unreliable, and nobody should go there if they want accurate, etymologically-based meanings. Thus, what I said was perfectly factual.EDIT: - extra "was", two days after the fact...
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This message was edited 8/1/2005, 2:52 PM

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Yeah I never have found them to even have a very large data base at all.---------------------------------------------------------------------
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It's not so much that their database is small, as that they invent and change meanings whenever they choose. They don't care if it's accurate as long as it's "cute".
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I think his point is that there are less inflamatory ways to describe the site.
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Precisely. It is fine to criticize their accuracy, but "crap" is not a word that should be used on a site like this one where people are supposed to be discussing names from an intellectual perspective.
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