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Help[Opinions] Re: Tristan
in reply to a message by Gaia
I like it pretty well. Tristan Patrick? Tristan James? Tristan Blake?
I have seen it on a girl, years ago. She was maybe two and all bundled up in winter clothes and I could barely tell the front of her from the back, let alone if she was a girl or boy. Her mother introduced her just as "this is Tristan." I assumed it was a boy and referred to her as he, and was quite snippily corrected with rolled eyes and a sigh. Well sorry, lady, but it was truly an honest mistake and you might have thought about the possibility before you picked the name for a girl if that kind of mistake was going to bother you so much or apparently happen so often.
So no, I don't like it on a girl. It sounds an awful lot like Kristen too, which could lead to mistakes in the other direction.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
I have seen it on a girl, years ago. She was maybe two and all bundled up in winter clothes and I could barely tell the front of her from the back, let alone if she was a girl or boy. Her mother introduced her just as "this is Tristan." I assumed it was a boy and referred to her as he, and was quite snippily corrected with rolled eyes and a sigh. Well sorry, lady, but it was truly an honest mistake and you might have thought about the possibility before you picked the name for a girl if that kind of mistake was going to bother you so much or apparently happen so often.
So no, I don't like it on a girl. It sounds an awful lot like Kristen too, which could lead to mistakes in the other direction.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
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