New Post
Search
Help[Opinions] Re: Stasys
in reply to a message by DarkLily243
Well I do not live in Lithuania but it is very much closer to my country (I am from Ukraine) than South Africa. It is pronounced stuh-syees or stah-syees. I don't have kids yet but I plan to have them and I will give them Ukrainian names, English speakers might find it weird but they can deal with it, because my children will be growing up here and not the anglosphere.
Replies
Learning about names from different cultures gave me the courage to go with less globalised names. When I was younger, my top picks were "Andrea" for a girl and "Etienne" for a boy (which, incidentally, I was also told "sounds feminine" by English speakers) largely because I figured they would be familiar across borders. Now I don't care so much. There's something to be said for "rooted" names that tell a story about the bearer's origins instead of copying the anglicized top 100.