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"Psymon" is kind of cool, but I wouldn't use it on a real person because it would cause too much confusion, maybe on a book character though. As for Qathi? NO. Idk what it is, maybe just the "Q" is bothering me for some reason, but no, BURN IT. ABSOLUTLEY NOT. It looks like it's pronounced "Kwathi".

Hmm. No. I think people should pick an usual name if they want to be unique, rather than a 'normal' name with uNuSuAL spelling. But that's just my opinion!

Hah, that reminds me of a woman I used to know named Qarin.

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Very 70s-80s sci-fi aesthetic.
I like it better than modern creative spelling style (something like Cymyn and Katheigh).

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I think a quirky adult who chooses a spelling like that is fine, they do it on purpose and the side-eye is worth it for them.
As baby names, they're sort of annoying and flakey, but not offensive.

Atrocious. Ridiculously atrocious.
Did Simon become a psychic and decided to re-spell his name to reflect that? Qathi is so egregiously stupid that I couldn’t even tell it was related to Kathy.
I don’t even wanna call these “inventive” at this point. They’re just ���.

No I hate inventive spellings, at school it drives us nuts, you try and find kids on the computer and your constantly asking for spelling and pronunciation

Maybe in a book, but IRL they'd be permanently inconvenient to the point of cruelty. And even in a book, there might be some readers who loved the characters and used their names for their own children: I know a sibset of Arutha (m) and Gwynnath (f), names from a fantasy novel, clearly based on Arthur and Gwyneth and likely to cause infinite confusion.

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Psymon is worse, actually. That Psy-, as in psychology etc, makes it look more authentically (actually, pretentiously) Greek than it is, taking away its genuine Hebrew roots and replacing them with something inaccurate. As for Qathi, it could work in some Bantu languages (Xhosa and Zulu, eg) I think, but then the Q would be a click very difficult to explain and even more difficult to make, and the -th- would be an unvoiced t rather than the -th- in Kathy.

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Inventive spellings in general depress me. Far from guaranteeing the child's individuality, I see them as a tacit admission that the child is only to be distinguished from gazillions of other Simon or Kathy people by association with a spelling error.

I didn’t recognise them as Simon and Kathy at all. I was thinking some pokemon for Psymon and that Qathi was possibly short for some Indian name, I hadn’t heard of before.

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I hate spellings like these. I just don’t see the point of people spelling names as weirdly as possible. It’s just so awkward.

I don't like them at all. I think they're awful. If I came across characters with these names and realized they were meant to be read as 'Simon' and as 'Kathy' I'd be putting the book down, especially if they were the leading characters.

Psymon for Simon I got but Qathi I didn't get Kathy, I don't pronounce Q as K so I got "Qwar-thee" or something to that affect

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I don't like inventive spellings, no, it's rare that I prefer an alternate spelling

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and I hate these xD

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Also Psymon literally looks like the name for a Pokemon or Digimon or something its kinda hard to take seriously

This message was edited 5/29/2020, 5:53 AM