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Help[Opinions] Re: Adonis!
in reply to a message by lakin5
I... don't like it. Not on a real person.
It sounds a little dorky, and like it has an amazing amount of bullying potential. It's a bit like naming your daughter Aphrodite. It's silly enough even if they do manage to grow up to be spectacularly good looking with chiseled features and hair which... blows in the wind and... stuff... even then it'd be silly and try-hard. If they turn out to be pleasantly average or "have a nice... *cough* personality..?" then around about that lovely awkward puberty stage which is awkward stage in life anyway, then their schoolmates are going to work out the meaning of Adonis, and... oh, that poor kid. I mean, maybe I was a ridiculously bookish kid, but I knew the meaning and figurative meaning of Adonis by the age of thirteen, fourteen, and would have teased any Adonis I came across mercilessly.
No kid should ever have to carry that kind of name baggage. Middle name it? That might be okay. Apart from when it crops up on uni lists and legal forms.
Really, I don't like Don names full stop, and as for Ad- names, I think Adam for one is a-okay. It's not super-common where I am, is falling in popularity here too, and although it's far less interesting than Adonis, I just find it cute.
Of course, if this were for a character, take it and run with it but avoid the purple prose. That is all.
It sounds a little dorky, and like it has an amazing amount of bullying potential. It's a bit like naming your daughter Aphrodite. It's silly enough even if they do manage to grow up to be spectacularly good looking with chiseled features and hair which... blows in the wind and... stuff... even then it'd be silly and try-hard. If they turn out to be pleasantly average or "have a nice... *cough* personality..?" then around about that lovely awkward puberty stage which is awkward stage in life anyway, then their schoolmates are going to work out the meaning of Adonis, and... oh, that poor kid. I mean, maybe I was a ridiculously bookish kid, but I knew the meaning and figurative meaning of Adonis by the age of thirteen, fourteen, and would have teased any Adonis I came across mercilessly.
No kid should ever have to carry that kind of name baggage. Middle name it? That might be okay. Apart from when it crops up on uni lists and legal forms.
Really, I don't like Don names full stop, and as for Ad- names, I think Adam for one is a-okay. It's not super-common where I am, is falling in popularity here too, and although it's far less interesting than Adonis, I just find it cute.
Of course, if this were for a character, take it and run with it but avoid the purple prose. That is all.
This message was edited 2/9/2012, 2:08 PM
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