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Help[Opinions] Re: WDYT of Jream?
in reply to a message by jonesilove
I think replacing Ds with Js is an interesting phenomenon. Personally, I relate it a bit to African/Arabic influence just because it reminds me of Dj in names like Djamila (instead of Jamila) plus the D sound in Arabic looks similar to an English J; probably there's specific pop culture influences for it, too, but I don't know those. I don't mind it, but it's not something I'd do myself; I feel more resonance with Dreama.
I understand the rating. People who use this site often don't like words names and typically don't favor nonstandard looking names either. I think stylewise it's basically like Jazmine or Jaxon. Those are rated lower than the standard English spelling. Jackson vs Jaxon drops about 30 favorability points the same way that Dream vs Jream does. I feel like CK to X is sillier that DR to J or S to Z, but that's just my feeling...maybe it's also because Jackson looks more traditional English to me, so I have stronger expectations of it conforming to convention (plus I have negative associations with Jackson to begin with), and maybe some people feel similarly about Dream. I used to be bothered by altered words names like that, and I still don't like every single one, but now I mostly feel like they're expressionistic or endearingly whimsical (also my parents spelled my NN with a y instead of the more common/intuitive i supposedly because "it looked more geometrically correct" 馃檮 It's whatever, although it can be interesting to see who bothers to remember the spelling variance and who doesn't). From a practical standpoint, I don't think it matters because lots of people have names like this, and this isn't one that people will be wildly mispronouncing even if they're unfamiliar with it.
I understand the rating. People who use this site often don't like words names and typically don't favor nonstandard looking names either. I think stylewise it's basically like Jazmine or Jaxon. Those are rated lower than the standard English spelling. Jackson vs Jaxon drops about 30 favorability points the same way that Dream vs Jream does. I feel like CK to X is sillier that DR to J or S to Z, but that's just my feeling...maybe it's also because Jackson looks more traditional English to me, so I have stronger expectations of it conforming to convention (plus I have negative associations with Jackson to begin with), and maybe some people feel similarly about Dream. I used to be bothered by altered words names like that, and I still don't like every single one, but now I mostly feel like they're expressionistic or endearingly whimsical (also my parents spelled my NN with a y instead of the more common/intuitive i supposedly because "it looked more geometrically correct" 馃檮 It's whatever, although it can be interesting to see who bothers to remember the spelling variance and who doesn't). From a practical standpoint, I don't think it matters because lots of people have names like this, and this isn't one that people will be wildly mispronouncing even if they're unfamiliar with it.
This message was edited 11/14/2023, 9:51 AM
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