ordinary names you ascribe inscrutably harmoniious qualities to

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what ordinary names just somehow ring right for you - make you well-disposed to the people who bear them?

j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:57 (ten years ago)

when i was a kid i had crushes on girls named both sara, and sarah, and somehow the possibility of spelling the name without an h or with an h enhanced their respective mysterious attractiveness.

j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:58 (ten years ago)

omg i .. feel the same way about sarah

mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:59 (ten years ago)

lots of biblical names tbh :/

mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:00 (ten years ago)

i also had crushes on two different stephs, who were partners or counterparts in so many things that everyone knew them as 'the two stephs'. stephs always seem to me like they relate more to the people around them.

j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:03 (ten years ago)

Jasons. Daniels. Davids. 2-syllable boys' names with the accent on the first, especially with a long A.

The Jason thing might be down either to G-Force or the Argonauts. I've loved that name a long, long time and even an arsehole at school couldn't spoil it for me.

are we shoegaze or are we dancer? (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:19 (ten years ago)

this is really gay lumberjack of me but bruce. xp oh i just dissed jason on the other thread, lol ;-)

mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:23 (ten years ago)

jacks have always seemed to be somewhat fortunate to me.

maybe that's down to all the card-playing my family did when i was a kid. a jack of the color of the trump suit is the right or left bower in euchre!

j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:37 (ten years ago)

that's why i thought 'jack' seemed dangerous and cool, the cards and booze association. also irishness was close by as far as ethnic identities went that weren't scandinavian/english mormon settlers.

mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:44 (ten years ago)

Jack the default name for action-movie heroes in the '80s-90s

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:53 (ten years ago)

All Irish names, especially Oisin, all Russian names, especially Dimitri, and the Spanish pronunciation of Jaime.

faghetti (fgti), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:59 (ten years ago)

Oh, "ordinary names", whoops. I like the name Jane. Sounds like braids.

faghetti (fgti), Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:03 (ten years ago)

Jack is just one of those names where it's like, come on, your parents weren't even trying. Worse than Joes.

are we shoegaze or are we dancer? (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:18 (ten years ago)

hey, take it to the other thread

j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:19 (ten years ago)

i want to hear about your mysterious associations, not about why you're wrong about why mine are wrong

j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:19 (ten years ago)

there were three erics in my school just like the three erics in sideways stories from wayside school by louis sachar. all three erics were really cool about it. that was a good book.

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:28 (ten years ago)

Graciella. It was the name of Perry Farrell ' s chicken in that janes addiction movie. Heck, maybe that was his chicken in real life too. I'm not sure.

how's life, Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:32 (ten years ago)

I was going to attribute my love of Davids and Daniels to my teenage Bauhaus-loving ways but I think it was actually formed earlier, going to middle school with adorable curly-haired prepubescents with those names. I am easily swayed by crushes.

are we shoegaze or are we dancer? (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:35 (ten years ago)

Autumn has a strong resonance for me. I think I've only known one Autumn, a girl who lived up the street from me when I was six and I somehow got invited to her birthday party. Little Red haired girl, which they couldn't have known that when they named her right? We watched Last Unicorn. I mean, obviously is a name that's derived from a word, so maybe if shouldn't count as much, but the vowel sounds are great.

how's life, Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:38 (ten years ago)

and the Spanish pronunciation of Jaime.

Agreed.

how's life, Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:44 (ten years ago)

I met a beautiful woman in Barcelona who introduced me to her young son and said "his name is Jaime" and I gasped at how beautiful a name it was

faghetti (fgti), Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:55 (ten years ago)

Are there any bad Kierans/Ciarans? Are they all not hott & super talented or what?

are we shoegaze or are we dancer? (Branwell with an N), Friday, 15 August 2014 14:36 (ten years ago)

I can only think of hebden & culkin

Atp Fin (wins), Friday, 15 August 2014 14:39 (ten years ago)

Oh and there was a Kieran at my school maybe I think

Atp Fin (wins), Friday, 15 August 2014 14:41 (ten years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Prendiville

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciar%C3%A1n_Hinds

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 15 August 2014 14:44 (ten years ago)

Hebden, Gillen, Murphy... a veritable triumvirate of hott

are we shoegaze or are we dancer? (Branwell with an N), Friday, 15 August 2014 15:22 (ten years ago)

Linda, I guess because of its literal meaning and from knowing a series of nice Lindas.

I'll second Jane, which suggests toughness and independence, as in Calamity Jane.

Barbara has a distantly romantic air to it, moreso now since it's fading and Barbaras are predominantly old ladies.

Josefa, Friday, 15 August 2014 15:26 (ten years ago)

Emma. The only Emmas in my life haven't/don't really justify it, but I crush on that name

sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 15 August 2014 15:30 (ten years ago)

I love antiquated unisex-but-female-ish names for men: Leslie, Marion, Beverly, Ashley, Evelyn, Vivian. I weirdly don't like the opposite, contemporary unisex-but-male-ish names for women: Sydney, Reese, Cody, Alex, Dylan, Quinn.

faghetti (fgti), Saturday, 16 August 2014 18:31 (ten years ago)


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