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Help[Opinions] Nope, I mean yuppie.
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Don't worry about being critical--I certainly am, and I welcome the company. ;)
I think of Juliana and Liliana as sort of nouveau yuppie names. They sound like the children of overly-indulgent, macchiato-drinking, Volvo driving soccer moms everywhere to me. They're "different" and "fresh" but safe--no one gets ousted from the chic playgroup with a Lily in tow. The names are precious in the extreme to my ears, like the pwetty-pwetty-pwincesses their parents expect them to be.
And that's a huge, sweeping generalization, but when I see an -ana name, I just get this feeling that the kid's going to be a spoiled brat with parents who think they're very cool and standing out from the crowd, when they've really just combined two insanely popular names to make a third. It's an instinctive thing, and a bit visceral, so if this doesn't make any sense, I apologize and will be happy to try and reexplain. :)
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...And then he said, "You're independent, aren't you?"
"Yes," said Laura.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
I think of Juliana and Liliana as sort of nouveau yuppie names. They sound like the children of overly-indulgent, macchiato-drinking, Volvo driving soccer moms everywhere to me. They're "different" and "fresh" but safe--no one gets ousted from the chic playgroup with a Lily in tow. The names are precious in the extreme to my ears, like the pwetty-pwetty-pwincesses their parents expect them to be.
And that's a huge, sweeping generalization, but when I see an -ana name, I just get this feeling that the kid's going to be a spoiled brat with parents who think they're very cool and standing out from the crowd, when they've really just combined two insanely popular names to make a third. It's an instinctive thing, and a bit visceral, so if this doesn't make any sense, I apologize and will be happy to try and reexplain. :)
Array (a silly creature)
...And then he said, "You're independent, aren't you?"
"Yes," said Laura.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
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