Message: "Re: Gia, Giada, and Gianna"

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[Opinions] Re: Gia, Giada, and Gianna

by Adelle (Adelle Sofia)

2/24/2007, 8:16 AM

I don't care for them. I live in an area that had a lot of Italian immigrants settle there in the early 1900s, and now a lot of little girls are being named this sort of thing, and it just seems very, very false to me. In a way, it's the trendy thing to do around here. You never see Allegra or Ottavia or Beatrice (Bay-uh-tree-chay), you get the American-watered-down-Italian Gianna because "ohmigosh", it's Italian, didn't you know? They are nice enough names, but for me, they just carry a negative association.

+ to borrow a sign off style from Array . . .

-- Adelle (who is proudly the daughter of said Italian immigrants but would much rather use Allegra, Octavia, or Beatrice) :)

This message was edited 2/24/2007, 8:32 AM

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- Emily (1crzychick) +2

2/24/2007, 11:34 AM

Thank you for the honest and well-put opinion. I would not use Gianna or Giada to sound Italian, especially since I don't have one drop of Italian blood in me. How is Ottavia pronounced? AH-tay-vee-uh? OH-tay-vee-uh?

- Adelle (Adelle Sofia) +1

2/24/2007, 11:59 AM

Oh, I didn't mean you'd be doing so, just that the people around here who do so have soured my opinion of it for the rest of us. Sorry! I prn it AH.

This message was edited 2/24/2007, 11:59 AM

- Emily (1crzychick)

2/24/2007, 12:53 PM

Don't worry, I didn't think you meant that, I was just clearing that up.

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