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Help[Opinions] Re: Psymon & Qathi
in reply to a message by Canielle
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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