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HelpLove the kid; hate the name
If you first hate/dislike a name and then meet a person by that name whom you grow to love, does your opinion of the name change?
My sister-in-law made a comment to my mom like "which names to you like, besides all your grandsons' names, of course?" So I guess she subscribes to starting to love a name because you love the person who has it. My mom has 8 grandsons, so I highly doubt she loved/loves all 16 of their first and middle names!
I don't share that belief at all. I have no trouble at all divorcing a name from its bearer. (I didn't chime in on the conversation because while I love both of my sister-in-law's kids, I do not even in the least like their names, and probably never will.)
Anyway, not sure if it's just a personality thing or if I'm in the minority. Knowing a person with a name I was previously indifferent to or had never thought about can certainly colour my opinion of the name for good or ill. But if I hate a name, even loving person by that name is not likely to change my opinion much.
You?
Three boys nappin', one mama namenerdin'
To peruse my top 100ish names: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/82589
To peruse my non-name musings: http://jodifriesen.blogspot.ca/
My sister-in-law made a comment to my mom like "which names to you like, besides all your grandsons' names, of course?" So I guess she subscribes to starting to love a name because you love the person who has it. My mom has 8 grandsons, so I highly doubt she loved/loves all 16 of their first and middle names!
I don't share that belief at all. I have no trouble at all divorcing a name from its bearer. (I didn't chime in on the conversation because while I love both of my sister-in-law's kids, I do not even in the least like their names, and probably never will.)
Anyway, not sure if it's just a personality thing or if I'm in the minority. Knowing a person with a name I was previously indifferent to or had never thought about can certainly colour my opinion of the name for good or ill. But if I hate a name, even loving person by that name is not likely to change my opinion much.
You?
Three boys nappin', one mama namenerdin'
To peruse my top 100ish names: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/82589
To peruse my non-name musings: http://jodifriesen.blogspot.ca/
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