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Help[Opinions] Re: WDYTO Nemo?
in reply to a message by Daffodil
Well, it's a bit unfortunate to me that so many peoples' first and only association is a cartoon clownfish...I don't know if that's *bad*, really - I just assume it sounds less serious, more kitschy, because of that, than it would otherwise...I imagine it seems about as a singular and pop culture-y as Elvis or Simba or Jafar would have seemed to me as a kid, but I do like Ursula and Elmer, and my first association with those was cartoons.
I don't personally associate Nemo with the movie that much (I only saw part of it like once 12 years ago), though.
I can't imagine intentionally naming a human 'no one', myself...I learned this as a Latin word before I heard it as a character name, so that sticks out...but it's probably less noticeable to most people (and therefore more usable, to my mind) than naming someone Zero, which is a GP of mine. I think the meaning originally (I'm guessing Jules Verne was the first to use it as a name? - eta, no, looks like Dickens used it in Bleak House as an alias of a former British Army officer who became an impoverished copyist and died of opium overdose) was picked to be mysterious.
It sounds nice, at least, and it's not a name I'd dislike seeing IRL...if I met siblings Nemo and Naoise and Nimue, that'd be fun...but also I suspect a Nemo would have to deal with a lot of "finding..." jokes/comments.
I don't personally associate Nemo with the movie that much (I only saw part of it like once 12 years ago), though.
I can't imagine intentionally naming a human 'no one', myself...I learned this as a Latin word before I heard it as a character name, so that sticks out...but it's probably less noticeable to most people (and therefore more usable, to my mind) than naming someone Zero, which is a GP of mine. I think the meaning originally (I'm guessing Jules Verne was the first to use it as a name? - eta, no, looks like Dickens used it in Bleak House as an alias of a former British Army officer who became an impoverished copyist and died of opium overdose) was picked to be mysterious.
It sounds nice, at least, and it's not a name I'd dislike seeing IRL...if I met siblings Nemo and Naoise and Nimue, that'd be fun...but also I suspect a Nemo would have to deal with a lot of "finding..." jokes/comments.
This message was edited 12/17/2019, 6:10 AM
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