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"Made-up" versus "made-up"
in reply to a message by Ylva
I said it before, but I'll say it again: there's a difference between the non-etymologically "made-up" and "made-up" as in "I've made up this name by combining x etymological element and y etymological element".Here, names like Kashynleigh or Taniqua are generally frowned upon because they're made up out of etymologically meaningless pretty-sounding elements. On the other hand, a name like Mativa, made up out of the Germanic elements maht "might"/"strength" and iv "yew", has a legitimate, etymologically tracible meaning. (Of course, Mativa isn't kewt like McKynleigh is, and probably wouldn't appeal to tryndees... but oh well.)This is an etymology board that just happens to focus on names. When someone says "made up" here, 99% of the time they're talking about the non-etymological made up unless it's specifically stated otherwise by context.This is off-topic to this post, but I just wanted to clarify what "made up" generally means here. Er... Chinese parents do follow the etymologically-meaningful kind of "made up"... See, I made this post on-topic! :-DEDIT: + last paragraph

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This message was edited 5/10/2005, 6:47 PM

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I think I like Mativa. Is it used by anyone nowadays?
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