Tarmonica has a nnice ring, err… reed to it.
I like Tuizaphone, Teltic Tarp, and Ticcolo.
I posted my baby name here once with a “what do you think” post and got the typical “I like it” or “I do not like it” and it was actually helpful. Not because I was taking a poll and whichever column with the highest tally won, but because it forced me into either defending my choice or seeing the error of my ways.
I defended my choice (IOW, I stuck with the name), but having to make up my mind and quit being wishy-washy about it helped me decide.
Why do they do it? Because it makes a nice change from the fearmongering threads that, according to my knocked-up best friend, dominate those fora.
…and then insist that it will be pronounced “Throatwarbler Mangrove”.
Best laugh so far today, thanks.
… but it should be spelled E-R-I-C…
As to the OP,
“Tiano” should be spelled T’ An-o (complete with a space after the apostrophe, two capitalized letters, a tilda over the n and a hyphen). This way you can feel all self-important by correcting everyone’s pronounciation of your son/daughter’s name.
Needs a couple of "y"s or a double “l” somewhere. A triple “l” if you want to be super-duper Welllsh and, thus, more cool.
BTW, that’s a reference to a section of Babies Named a Bad, Bad Thing. My husband and I were trying to use the rules on that site to extrapolate the top name of this millennium. By his calculations, its Pfarrdyngulllatyr, with an umlaut over the “u”.
I dunno, seems like a tilda would be hard to fit.
I havent been able to find a decent parenting forum - especially in regards to blended families (step-parenting) which is why I had a thread (on here) about disengaging. When reviewing the parenting boards, I was turned off by the number of pits against the spouse’s ex and/or children. I dont want a pit(y) party, I want sound advice and maybe even a little humour to go with it because I know that sometimes I’m not (re)acting in an appropriate & successful manner; sometimes I’m not seeing the big picture and sometimes I’m not seeing the other side of the situation.I want to know WHY it is or isnt working and HOW to overcome obstacles.
I just havent found that on any parenting boards & I cant argue with nd_n8’s statements!
The OP was nice. I liked it.
Rasputin and Tiano are bad. I do not like them.
Thank you - however, credit must go to Kuboydal - my post was mere bandwagon-jumping.
There’s always the possibility that some stranger will point out something to you that you didn’t already know, such as that the name you favor means “unattractive person of well-below-average intelligence” in a language that’s spoken by millions of people, or is the name of a famous traitor or mass murderer.
So there’s that.
Or they might point out that your kid’s intials will spell something funny or that the name rhymes with something you didn’t think of.
“Marcus”?! More like Mucus, hahahaha."
I haven’t been to a parenting forum for years. I got disgusted when I was on a parenting forum when my daughter was little and I was breastfeeding and there was a woman on there with a six week old child who hadn’t latched. She had a toddler at home too. She’d been pumping and then feeding the baby with an eyedropper because she didn’t want nipple confusion! Plus then trying to get the baby to latch. I can’t imagine how time consuming this was (remember, toddler at home as well). The pediatrician was telling her the baby wasn’t gaining enough weight and she was going to have to try something else. She was exhausted and at the end of her rope. And the gits on the parenting forum were all “no, you can’t give her a bottle, you are perfectly right about the nipple confusion, you’ll ruin any chance you have of breastfeeding. Your pediatrician is a victim of the evil anti-breast cabal. Keep doing what you are doing.”
And that was when I decided that many of these women had their heads so far up their asses that they see light.
I hear ya. I’m part of a blended family as well and we have our own special difficulties to overcome. There can be a lot of cynicism and anger amongst our demographic, understandably, but it’s not all like that.
If there’s anything I learned from my own experiences with my failed relationship with my son’s father, it’s that the old adage is true: It takes two to tango. But it takes only one to lead.
Don’t know if that helps, but if you ever want to vent or chat, I’m a PM away. Oh, and my husband is the stepfather of my 17 year old son. Complicated stuff, that.
Actually, the name is kinda growing on me. I see I had it wrong upthread and it’s Tiano. I would prefer Cristiano, and give the kid some choice–he’s the one stuck with his name, long after you are dead.
I do see lots of teasing, but that builds character. It’s not the worst name out there. Could you give him a standard middle name, so he (again) has a choice?
If you ever do find one, please let me know. I have the same dilemma, when I just want to discuss an issue and everyone else wants to bitch about the ex-wife and how she’s ruined the kids 4ever bcuz she’s so evillll. :rolleyes:
I once had a sensible response to a name opinion thread, when someone mentioned that I was about to name my two youngest sons after two notorious mass murderers. That changed my mind about the baby’s name, I must say.
I thought I was pretty safe naming my new baby Lauren, but when her 2 1/2 year old brother says her name it sounds just like “Urine”. I hope it doesn’t stick (although my whole family thinks it’s hilarious).
Here’s my thought re: the question in the OP. Consider the Myers-Briggs personality types T(hinking) and F(eeling). These are preferences. Some people prefer to think analytically and some people prefer to feel emotionally. Given some free time, some people will do Sudoko and some will scrapbook. Some people are at the extreme, and would only do one and never the other. Others are more balanced.
When a thinking type asks about a baby name, their approach is like the OP - they want new, analytical information. When a feeling type posts, they want emotions. The name sounds pretty, the name is beautiful, someone loves it, someone hates it.
We here on the Dope fight ignorance, and we are a pretty thinking crowd. There are plenty of people on the internet fighting indifference, or just boredom. Many of them are feeling types. For them, the emotional reactions to the name may be more interesting than the origin in ancient Greek or the anagram you can make with it.
Thanks, but i generally try to fall off the wagon. I didn’t know there was a band playing, though.