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Re: Baby namers
by Texwiz
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I've noticed that people with crazy names often get offended when people mispronounce their name as if it is something that everyone's heard of, instead of something that came out of their parent's imagination and has no basis in any language or phonetics system known on this planet.

Oh yeah, I have met these people. Fortunately, some of them are perfectly sensible, and they understand that not everyone's going to get it right.

Even some people with relatively normal names get bent out of shape at having their name mispronounced. Like the girl named Tonya, who gets pissed when someone calls her Tanya, with an "a" instead of an "o". The real problem is that they take it personally instead of realizing that everybody isn't really devoting much time to parsing the proper pronunciation of their name.

As to the parents who give wierd names, I'll just say it straight out. It is narcissism. They think that people will think that they are original and clever, and usually, people actually think they are screwy and dumb.

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