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Post by limbowoman on Sept 12, 2007 0:11:36 GMT -5
Fox, do you mean a name like Leonard or jsut the shortened Leo..?
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Post by Aindel on Sept 13, 2007 12:03:17 GMT -5
It is -not- girly. You just have no appreciation for the truly archaic. And it's not like I'll use his full name all the time. I'd call him Con, unless I was mad at him. -Then- he'd get the full first, middle, and last name. I don't have middle names picked out though. The way I see it: the kid's already getting my hypothetical husband's last name, so he's already constantly associated with the kid. Middle name is negotiable. First name totally falls to me, because that will be the other name constantly associated with the kid. So it all balances out! XD
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Post by bubbles on Sept 13, 2007 13:08:08 GMT -5
-You- will call him Con, but his teacher will call him Constantine, and his classmates will snicker and he'll never make any friends. D=<
I know this from experience. I'm part of the snickering bunch. =o
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Sept 13, 2007 14:33:50 GMT -5
I'd give a daughter my middle name. Rennie, Of the rain. I don't know about a boy, Rennie is actually a unisex name, believe it or not. Of course, I might just do Ann fo a girl, or Francis for a boy. They're all family names.
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Post by Trey on Sept 13, 2007 18:06:16 GMT -5
In all seriousness if I have a girl her middle name will be Yvette.
And Gabriel is more associated with males now than females. I've never heard a female named Gabriel. They're usually Gabrielle or Gabriella. None-the-less, Gabriel will be badass.
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Sept 13, 2007 19:38:47 GMT -5
I have. I used to know one .
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Post by Aindel on Sept 14, 2007 18:30:51 GMT -5
-You- will call him Con, but his teacher will call him Constantine, and his classmates will snicker and he'll never make any friends. D=< I know this from experience. I'm part of the snickering bunch. =o Gee, thanks for making fun of my hypothetical son. As his hypothetical mother, I now feel obliged to kick your ass. But I won't. I'm just that nice. XD And it's not necessarily true that his teacher will call him Constantine. It can be listed right on registration/class forms that you are to be referred solely by a middle/shortened/alternate name. There was a guy in my class in elementary school who was like that, and we didn't know that he wasn't going by his first name until they called his full name out at graduation. We wondered who the hell they were talking about until he stood up.
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Post by limbowoman on Sept 14, 2007 21:47:25 GMT -5
Yay... good for him for tricking everyone until graduation...
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Post by Trey on Sept 15, 2007 18:00:26 GMT -5
Unless he gets one of those teachers who refuses to call anyone but my their full real name.
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Post by Aindel on Sept 15, 2007 21:13:22 GMT -5
Yeah, but if it bothered him, I'd take it up with te teacher. If he was comfortable with it, then I suppose it wouldn't matter. There are few teachers like that nowadays, though, I think. Or maybe that's just in my area.
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Post by The Star Fox on Sept 15, 2007 22:37:38 GMT -5
Fox, do you mean a name like Leonard or jsut the shortened Leo..? Just Leo...... I was going with the Latin. I have student who goes by Cody and his real name is Brondrew I also like the names Bartholomew Balthazar Aviv for a girl Avern for a boy
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Post by limbowoman on Sept 16, 2007 0:46:31 GMT -5
I'd like 'Bartholomew' if it wasn't spelled like that...
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Post by The Star Fox on Sept 16, 2007 9:13:18 GMT -5
Meh there is a couple different ways of spelling.... Barthalomeu, Barthalamew, etc..... The correct spellin is Bartholomew
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Post by Aindel on Sept 16, 2007 15:46:18 GMT -5
I used to love the book 'The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. My parents hated taking me to the library, because that book always made its way into my stack, without fail. I want to read it again...
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Post by Clover on Sept 16, 2007 17:09:13 GMT -5
Well, see, my name is Tabatha. Which is relatively archaic, and an old-fashioned name. In grade nine, I shortened it to Tabi. Teachers would ask my name, I would say Tabi, and that was that. I got called Tabatha once, by a substitute teacher---and even then, she remedied it once she knew I preferred the shortened name.
So it wasn't a big deal.
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