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in reply to a message by Caroline
It is trendy, IMO, in the same vein as Hudson and Cooper and Braxton.
Not pretentious because it does not have the stuffy airs of a name like Remington or Blake. Just, cold and impersonal the way surname names can be - hyperbutch in a way that turns me off. I think it seems that way to me because I relate it to the word sullen (and the word sully which is quite negative), and just don't care for the sound. Also, it's more surnamey than Mason to me because I've never met someone called Sullivan as a first name, or even Sully - I've only seen Sully as a sort of back-slapping sporty nickname for someone with the surname Sullivan. Sully also does have a slightly more pretentious air, like Colby or Brooks. I guess if I had met more than one person with Sullivan as their firstname my image of it would be different. Must be an east coast thing?
- mirfak
Not pretentious because it does not have the stuffy airs of a name like Remington or Blake. Just, cold and impersonal the way surname names can be - hyperbutch in a way that turns me off. I think it seems that way to me because I relate it to the word sullen (and the word sully which is quite negative), and just don't care for the sound. Also, it's more surnamey than Mason to me because I've never met someone called Sullivan as a first name, or even Sully - I've only seen Sully as a sort of back-slapping sporty nickname for someone with the surname Sullivan. Sully also does have a slightly more pretentious air, like Colby or Brooks. I guess if I had met more than one person with Sullivan as their firstname my image of it would be different. Must be an east coast thing?
- mirfak
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