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Help[Opinions] I'd think her parents don't know anything about names (m)
in reply to a message by Karcoolka
because those are two forms of the same name.
This message was edited 2/2/2008, 8:23 AM
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Yes, this.
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Yeah, but they're still derived from the same name. To me (and a good many namenerds) it's like having twins named Mary and Maria or Alice and Adelaide. My Spanish teacher refers to his daughter as "Elizabeth" when he's talking in English and "Isabel" when he's talking in Spanish. James is derived from Jacob, so the period in English history that was ruled by Kings James is known as the Jacobean period. Names with the same etymological derivation are, to me, essentially the same name.
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Ah, I see ...
depends on the region then. Where I live - neither english nor spanish speaking region - I've never seen Elisabeth and Isabel being used on the same person. (And Isabella is even more different)
To me, Mary and Maria or Alice and Adelaide look much worse and a lot more similar, in these cases I can understand.
However f.ex. I don't see James and Jacob as the "same name", or John and Jack or Nancy and Anna or Louis and Ludwig or Guillaume and William ... they already sound to different one from another.
depends on the region then. Where I live - neither english nor spanish speaking region - I've never seen Elisabeth and Isabel being used on the same person. (And Isabella is even more different)
To me, Mary and Maria or Alice and Adelaide look much worse and a lot more similar, in these cases I can understand.
However f.ex. I don't see James and Jacob as the "same name", or John and Jack or Nancy and Anna or Louis and Ludwig or Guillaume and William ... they already sound to different one from another.
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I agree
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Ditto.
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