*blinks*

[conuly]

Aside from the absurdity of "OMG! SOMEBODY MIGHT STEAL MY NAME!!!" I have this to ask...

She named her daughter Sonnet? What was going through her head? She named the kid after a friggin' type of POEM. What's next, Limerick? Haiku? Five bucks says she can't quote from a single sonnet.

Sonnet.

Other names I object to, on principle:

Regan/Reagan: this either commemorates King Lear's ungrateful daughter, or one of the worst presidents we've ever had. I do not see the logic in giving this name to your little girl.
Dymphna: Yes, yes, patron saint of Belgium. Yes, yes, patron saint of the insane. Do you really want to give the "insane" name to a little girl?
Robert: This is my dad's name. I can't let anybody have this name, because if I ever have a little boy, that's what I'll call him. So don't steal it from me!

Honestly, why would you want to steal that name? It's not a name. It's a type of poem!

*sighs*

Of course, I think Magrat is perfectly fine, so maybe I'm not the best judge :)

Comments

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Orangejello and Lemonjello

Funny thing about that (http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm).

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

So perhaps I misspelled it--I did, after all, never see their real names written down--but that doesn't change the fact that they're funny names. I understand how names evolve over time from different languages. But this was in the U.S., fairly recently; and certainly to name her two children Lemongello and Orangello (however to spell it) seems like a joke. They are African-American, too, if it has a bearing on the source of the names.

I don't care the origins; they're funny names. More so when paired.