Is it true that, as part of an apology, Southwest is naming a row of seats after her on every flight?
If parents want to name their uni-sexual offspring 1010000,1000001,1010100 that’s fine. But they will condemn that child to a lifetime of explaining how to pronounce it.
I work with a woman named Xixi. pronounced, more or less, as zee zee (more or less, because the pronunciation is probably sort of tsee tsee) It’s her name. Nobody has a problem with it. She’s from a culture where most people have unique names.
[Dan Turk +1 ]
Pflugerville, we have a problem. squelch tail
Very seldom is something on SDMB genuinely funny but this is that.
Houston isn’t a bad name because it’s a place name. (The place was named after a person, after all). It’s a bad name because it’s a last name forced to be a first name.
Unfortunately, that child will be mocked for many years to come. Deliberately giving a child a joke name is child abuse imho.
The airline clerk shouldn’t have said anything. I hope he’s disciplined.
But, just imagine what that kid’s classmates will say for the next 12 years. Then it will continue into college.
There’s a TV network and a Jackson five song named after her. She’s got plenty of material to work with.
Yeah, I guess I’d agree with **Magiver **on this one (vs being diametrically opposed on a hundred others;)). It probably should be company policy to not publish or circulate customers’ boarding documents gratuituously, especially in the case of minors.
As to “creative names” well, as was expounded in a certain collaboration of Messrs. Silverstein and Cash, they can be a character-building tool as the child has to grow up developing the confidence to let it slide off their back or put the other person in their place.
… said the person apparently named Carol.
:rolleyes:
No, she’s named Cairo. Can’t you read?
Her sister is named Alexandria.
(I did once teach a kid named “Memphis.”)
Sounds like a parenting version of the Broken Window Fallacy. One might as well amputate the nose of one’s child, saying that the mockery it invites will create a stronger and more confident child.
The scholarly work JRD was referring to is this one.
Waco?
Lots of last names have become first names. My own name, cunningly hidden in my doper name, was a last name originally but nobody finds it odd today.
Or the various -son names like Harrison. But I’ll leave it to you to tell Son of Harry Ford that his first name is a bad name.
I have had multiple MacKenzies in some classes over the last few years.
And I’m nitpicky enough to say that should be pronounced Lahyphena. Ladasha would be La–a.
It’s pronounced ‘Dah-lis’
If I were an airline employee and someone had “ABCDE” or “QWERTY” in their first-name section, I would think it was some kind of computer glitch, something that made the machine substitute in letters in sequence instead of the passenger’s actual name.