Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A Name Too Far

Morgano opened this issue on Jun 15, 2007 · 64 posts


Morgano posted Sun, 17 June 2007 at 5:22 AM

*hmm..sydne  is a cool name. A city in australia?  no  Morgano thats "Sydney" . I like the name trista
too. I picked Sara  no "h"  more uncommon in a name.

I mentioned "Sydney" and jjroland countered with her remark about "Sydne".   It was jjroland who equated "Sydne" with "Sydney", not me.   Once she had done so, I made a light-hearted reference to Oz.    For the record, I like the name Adelaide and I like Beethoven's song, too.

Also, depending on where one is in the world, Tristan might possibly be a female's name.
*Well, perhaps you could enlighten us on the current thinking on this subject where you are, in the People's Republic of Bozo?

Less polemically, "Sydne" is preferable to "Bug" (which seems pretty unfair, if that's Sydne in the picture).   The problem with a name like "Sydne" is that no-one is sure how it is pronounced.   Well, not no-one, since I am sure Sydne and her folks know, but she is going to have to explain the pronunciation zillions of times in her decades ahead.

There's a Celtic name which is written as Sean in Irish and Sion in Welsh (I think that the correct spelling has accents in both cases, but my keyboard/browser/codepage/whatever doesn't run to that).   That's the boy's name.   I don't know what the female version is in Irish (Siobhan?);  the Welsh is Sian (accent missing, again, pronounced "Shahn", more or less, with a long "A", second "H" not sounded).   Sean/Sion is often written "Shaun" by English-speakers and often, in the US, given to girls.   I long ago knew a boy who had been christened "Sean" by his parents, but he and, presumably, they didn't know how it was meant to be pronounced, so the poor lad went through his formative years thinking that he was called "Seen".   

Sian is a lovely name, in common with many of the female names from Wales, but has the same problem as "Sydne".   There have probably been enough vaguely prominent holders of the name at large in Britain for people to know how to pronounce it, but I bet Sians have to put up with "Sy-Anne" when they visit other English-speaking countries, never mind non-English-speaking ones.

Polemically, again:  suggestions for new female character-names:  Gilgamesh, Rameses, Napoleon, Derek, Eric, Harald, Harold, Ivan, Taliesin, Attila.   Don't worry that these may seem strange, because Jumpstartme2 definitely has a sister, or a cousin, or an aunt with one or more of these names and will race to your defence.