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On Strange Names and the Curse of Individualism
Archdiocese of Washington ^ | December 7, 2012 | Msgr. Charles Pope

Posted on 12/08/2012 12:50:55 PM PST by NYer

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To: pennyfarmer

Oh pish-tosh. It bugs me that EVERY young kid and most younger people have these “unique” names, and basically NO traditional names. Society is throwing out its roots. Wouldn’t be so bad if only a few boys were named Aiden and Jayden rather than every one in the neighborhood and on TV.

I can despise trends if I want. Doesn’t mean I’m interested in regulations.

BTW, I’m Kristin, named after a Nobel-winning novel, no family names at all involved.


61 posted on 12/08/2012 3:30:41 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I’m Kristin, named after a Nobel-winning novel

Uh, there is no Nobel Prize for novels.

62 posted on 12/08/2012 3:34:46 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Disambiguator

OMG...I LOL’d through those!


63 posted on 12/08/2012 3:39:26 PM PST by left that other site (Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
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To: Lee N. Field

Yeah, all the normal names are oriental.

I’m not crazy about Sinutab, but I’d be OK with Dristan.


64 posted on 12/08/2012 3:40:25 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Erasmus

I’m sick of Madison (who thought it’s best as girl name?), and every other “last name” first as well. That is another trend I am tired of!


65 posted on 12/08/2012 3:46:42 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Revolting cat!

AUTHOR.


66 posted on 12/08/2012 3:48:58 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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There’s always ‘Chlorine’.


67 posted on 12/08/2012 3:49:36 PM PST by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: NYer

All names were strange once.


68 posted on 12/08/2012 3:53:05 PM PST by discostu (Not a part of anyone's well oiled machine.)
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To: NYer

“Laquintas”

Named after where conceived?


69 posted on 12/08/2012 3:54:19 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: Salvation

Louise and Patrick are in the Bible?


70 posted on 12/08/2012 3:55:09 PM PST by Yashcheritsiy (It's time to Repeal and Replace the Republican Party)
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To: perez24

What no ‘Trayler’?


71 posted on 12/08/2012 4:02:04 PM PST by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: sean327

I went to junior high with an Aquanetta.


72 posted on 12/08/2012 4:04:53 PM PST by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: NYer

Some popular redneck names around here . . Dakota, Cheyenne or Shyann, or Shian, Shawn, or Sean, or Shawna, or Seana, Amber, Crystal, or Krystal . . these are okay names, but have been driven into the ground with lots of repeats.


73 posted on 12/08/2012 4:13:08 PM PST by Twinkie (The WICKED walk on every side when EVIL men are exalted. Psalm 12:8)
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To: NYer

So, here’s something on this topic from 2006:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606343/posts


74 posted on 12/08/2012 4:13:18 PM PST by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "p" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: Albion Wilde

A few years ago at the Minnesota state girls high school basketball tourney, someone counted 14 variant spellings of ‘Caitlin’.


75 posted on 12/08/2012 4:36:59 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: mjp
"maybe there is some hostility toward traditional American values by some groups that feel oppressed by them."

Then those groups should feel free to leave, and go live in other countries, where they would find out what "oppression" is. They have it better here than anywhere else in the world.

76 posted on 12/08/2012 4:50:50 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)
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To: NYer
I know what you mean.

The names thing is really one facet of the huge numbers of soulless, atheist, feral people in the world.

And they come in all races.

The sheer ignorance of all standard concepts of civilization.

The complete lack of curiosity about history.

The complete obtuseness and luxuriating in stupidity and fecklessness.

The moronic tattoos, the speech and thought devoid of any meaning or significance.

Their minds are sewage, pure and simple.

Naming their kids is one way they show their grasp of the meaning and significance of an individual human life vis a vis the Creator, and the eternal and infinite universe.

Nihilism.

77 posted on 12/08/2012 4:51:51 PM PST by caddie
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To: Noumenon

A woman (race will not be mentioned) at the Food Bank I founded had twins. She told me she found the most beeyouteeful names for her new daughters at the hospital where they were born. Then she showed me pictures of her identical girls Gonorrhea and Syphilis. . . I am not kidding.


78 posted on 12/08/2012 4:54:01 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: sean327

Fox 25 Boston used to have a news anchor named Anqunette Jamison. They called her Q for short.


79 posted on 12/08/2012 5:12:50 PM PST by This I Wonder32460
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To: pennyfarmer

“I suppose this is one freedom you would all like to see go away?”

Good question to ask little “Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii”? Remember her?

My own legal name is a nickname for a more formal name. My Mom thought the formal name was too long and they would call me the nickname anyway, so why bother naming me the formal name. The nickname would do. Thanks mom, not. I can tell her why she should have named me the formal name and called me by the nickname. The answer is simple R-E-S-P-E-C-T. That’s why.


80 posted on 12/08/2012 5:25:35 PM PST by This I Wonder32460
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