Cruel Parents - Bad Names

[Sundae]

Dante isn't cruel nameage.
I've known two Dantes. It's a perfectly acceptable Italian name.

The apostrophe is abhorrent of course.

[Chocolatl]

Originally Posted by Kingswood

They wouldn't be fans of Lord of the Rings, would they?

I don't think so, I think they're just a little weird with their naming. Their first son, who I failed so mention, is named Niño -- as in "boy." He goes by Nino, now.

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Dante isn't cruel nameage.
I've known two Dantes. It's a perfectly acceptable Italian name.

The apostrophe is abhorrent of course.

I thought the name itself was all right, though I don't think it quite "fits" the baby. The apostrophe is just... awful. Most of the family leaves it off in writing, and I imagine little Dante' will as well, when he gets older.

[Cloud]

'xactly.

[Cicero]

Yea. Me and my friend are arguing about naming her baby after a star trek character, after she made the gaffe of giving it a muslim name. I will leave the names out to protect the innocent. (me) (from her)

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Cicero

Me and my friend are arguing about naming her baby after a star trek character, after she made the gaffe of giving it a muslim name.

Surely if she didn't know it was a name Muslim parents gave their children then other people wouldn't know either? I might just be reading it wrong (I don't know the name after all) but it hardly sounds like a gaffe to me. I know a couple of white women called Aisha. That's an acceptable Muslim name.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Cicero

Yea. Me and my friend are arguing about naming her baby after a star trek character, after she made the gaffe of giving it a muslim name. I will leave the names out to protect the innocent. (me) (from her)

racist/religionist much?

[DanaC]

Dante isn't cruel nameage.
I've known two Dantes. It's a perfectly acceptable Italian name.

Pilau's brother is called Dante (aka Dan, Dan-the-man, Big Brother Dan and Dante-burger).


When I was a kid I hated my name (Danielle). I hated how it sounded in the bolton accent. Also, it wasn't a name you heard much back then, and anything unusual is hateful at that age :P I always envied two of my friends at primary school: Colette and Fiona. They sounded delicate and feminine but cool. Danielle sounded too round and clumsy to me.


Of course nowadays I hear that name everywhere.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I had to laugh... a friend from Brooklyn, NY, named Phyllis, always wanted to be Danielle. Maybe it's the accent thing, but it could be the, greener on the other side, thing too.

[BrianR]

I have a friend named Dan who wants to be Danielle, too.

[Cicero]

Well it sounds like a gaffe to me, especially when my friend is not muslim, and doesn't want to be stopped with her baby in airports trying to get on planes. Other people do know. There are large databases with names in them. Just because she doesn't know something doesn't mean other people don't. And too often they think they know something that they don't as well.

[Aliantha]

Aisha is a nice name. I've known a couple of them and neither were Muslim.

[Cicero]

Aisha is a nice name....I haven't known any.

[Cicero]

lol! Yea I think it's a gaffe. I don't want my friend's baby to get stopped at the airport trying to come and see me. mmmm'kay? And I have every right to think so. Look at the undue speculation at obama right now. Don't name your kid Hussein. I have no issue with Muslims outside of their hatred of women (which is not exclusive of just Muslims),written right inside of the Koran, which I read. So get off your trip. I will check any name against the watch list if I damn well choose.

The fact that I am scared of the name being Muslim because of my country more than theirs, says a whole lot.

[Kingswood]

Originally Posted by Cicero

lol! Yea I think it's a gaffe. I don't want my friend's baby to get stopped at the airport trying to come and see me.

Now this is giving me bizarre images.

Airport security: You're free to go, but your child will need to submit to questioning.

In stark, white interview room, somewhere deep in the bowels of the airport:

Airport security: How long have you been a Muslim?
Friend's baby: Da da. Goo goo goo.
Airport security: Have you been to Pakistan or Afghanistan lately?
Friends baby: Puts fist in mouth. Drools on fist. mm mm. Da da. Giggles and smiles
Airport security: Holds up picture of Osama Bin Laden Do you know this man?
Friend's baby: da da goo.
Airport security: Are you saying this is your father?
Friend's baby: ga ga goo goo.

[Cicero]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Not remotely unique to muslim cultures.

I already said that many posts ago when I first mentioned it.


Here:

Originally Posted by Cicero

(which is not exclusive of just Muslims).

As for what is up my butt...
Well..that's not a stick.:p

Why do I seem snitty?

People shouldn't jump to conclusions and start screaming racist because they have an uninformed opinion, and have jumped to a ridiculous conclusion with dire consequences. I get all bent out of shape over that. I'm not perfect but I am no racist. I never have been and never will be. That reminds me of the time someone from the NAACP came by our office at the time, to mention they were going to tell the media my boss was a racist if they didn't get what they wanted. (my boss was orthodox jewish) Too irksome and silly.