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Help[Opinions] Re: River
in reply to a message by Pelops
I like it. Are you asking for a pitch? I hope so ...
I don't think it's any more ingratiating than any other good-noun name. I think, say, Chase and Grayson and Ruby and Willow sound more warm-ingratiating to me than River. River is a little weird, Hollywoody and try-to-be-elfish, like all fashionable word-names are - like Ivy, Nova, Everly, even Violet - but not annoyingly so, it's not purple like Evolet or Valor or Evening or Ever or Vesper. And it's trendy and vaguely surnamey, similar to, but not as much as, something like Riley or Sawyer or Avery, or even Hunter or Everett (which I like).
I just feel like the nature-image overpowers everything else about it - it's like Summer, just sort of appealing at an instinctive level because like, sunshine and flowing water, they're essential to life. Like with Summer, I'm a little confused about why it didn't become a name a long time ago... along with the likes of Garnet, Forest, Grover, Clover, Easter, Fern, Dale, Myrtle, Ginger ... River would sorta fit with them, in my mind. Well, it would, if it did. As it is, it sounds modern like Griffin or Kai... and I like that too.
- mirfak
I don't think it's any more ingratiating than any other good-noun name. I think, say, Chase and Grayson and Ruby and Willow sound more warm-ingratiating to me than River. River is a little weird, Hollywoody and try-to-be-elfish, like all fashionable word-names are - like Ivy, Nova, Everly, even Violet - but not annoyingly so, it's not purple like Evolet or Valor or Evening or Ever or Vesper. And it's trendy and vaguely surnamey, similar to, but not as much as, something like Riley or Sawyer or Avery, or even Hunter or Everett (which I like).
I just feel like the nature-image overpowers everything else about it - it's like Summer, just sort of appealing at an instinctive level because like, sunshine and flowing water, they're essential to life. Like with Summer, I'm a little confused about why it didn't become a name a long time ago... along with the likes of Garnet, Forest, Grover, Clover, Easter, Fern, Dale, Myrtle, Ginger ... River would sorta fit with them, in my mind. Well, it would, if it did. As it is, it sounds modern like Griffin or Kai... and I like that too.
- mirfak
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